The City has plans for all three major utilities to undergo infrastructure upgrades over the next five years.

More than $140 million dollars has been allocated for various waterworks, sewer, and solid waste improvement projects. 

Approximately $23 million for the projects will come from municipal taxes and the proposed infrastructure levy. 

Significantly, the waterworks utility has $100,281,197 planned over the next five years, with nearly $14.5 million from taxes, and close to $8.5 million from the proposed infrastructure levy for projects such as the construction of a new high service reservoir pumphouse facility.  

Plans are also in the works to replace the outdated fluoridation systems as well as the ageing pipe network connecting into the northeast reservoir. 

The Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant will see the replacement of four pumps and all associated electrical components for an approximate $100,000.  

The City’s castiron watermain replacement project will continue, with $42,700,000 allocated over the next five years and phase five scheduled for completion in 2020. 

The sanitary sewer system will see trunk sewer replacement and new sewer linings which will increase the life of older pipes and the beginning of manhole restorations, of which there are a total of 2,100 in the system. 

The funding allocated for the solid waste program will mainly be used for the eventual expansion/replacement of the existing landfill.