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Nolan Trainor Is getting ready to dig In at the Grand Bend Public School annual Christmas lunch last week.
See more photos on page 19.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Bluewater opts
out of Grand
Bend sewage
treatment plant
expansion
14) The municipality will
no longer sit on the
tri -municipal board
and will pay no up
front costs
Vanessa Brown
Clinton News Record
Bluewater council has opted out, for
now, of the multi-million dollar Grand
Bend sewage treatment plant expan-
sion in a vote that effectively removes
its three councillors from the project's
tri -municipal board and relieves the
municipality from paying any capital or
annual ownership costs.
In a unanimous vote held during a
Bluewater council meeting last Mon-
day, Dec. 5, council exercised its right to
pull out of the project before a Dec. 31
deadline. The decision was met with
applause from about 30 residents sitting
in the audience.
"It's a very expensive endeavour," saki
utilities superintendent Brent Kittnier.
"I think we understood at this point in
time we'd have to become a withdraw-
ing party."
While Bluewater has withdrawn from
the project and wilt pay no up front
costs, it can buy back in for up to 10
years.
Although deputy mayor Paul Mop')
stated his vote to withdraw was based
solely on what's good for Bluewater
ratepayers, Stanley West Councillor
George Irvin expressed concern over
the project's future if Lambton Shores is
the only municipality left in the project
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