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$60: City eyes credit for installing dual-flush toilets
WCPotts Plumbing and Fixtures Randy Mandelik with dual flush toilet. (JOE BRYKSA / FREE PRESS ARCHIVES)
THE City of Winnipeg is poised to offer residents who install dual-flush toilets a $60 credit on their water bills.
Next week, the executive policy committee will consider a report that could result in the replacement of thousands of water-wasting toilets with more efficient models by 2013, according to a water-and-waste report published Friday. Pending EPC and council approval later this month, anyone who installs an approved dual-flush toilet -- that is, 4.8 litres per flush -- and recycles their old toilet at the Brady Road Landfill could receive a $60 water credit, provided the water bill is in their own name and is not in arrears. The toilets must be purchased after Oct. 16 and installed by Dec. 31. A maximum of two credits per account will be issued.
"The purpose of the program is to promote long-term water conservation by reducing both water consumption and waste-water flows into the city's three waste-water treatment plants," reads the report. "By educating and promoting residents to replace inefficient toilets, the city will increase water-use efficiency without negatively impacting the quality of life enjoyed by Winnipeggers."
The program is expected to cost $100,000 this year, plus $30,000 for advertising. The city might spend an additional $250,000 in 2010, 2011 and 2012 on the credits but expects to recoup this cash and more due to reduced sewage-treatment operating costs.
In the past winter, the provincial government offered $50 rebate incentives for Manitobans buying dual-flush toilets.
-- Bartley Kives
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 19, 2009 A3
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2 Comments
Posted by: Freeepress
September 19, 2009 at 8:57 PM
i agree. how can people be so blind and not see that scam katz is the dirtiest mayor ever. we'd be better with al golden. katz has some dirty secrets from along time ago. and they will be discovered soon. very crooked.
Posted by: Mike From Westwood
September 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM
SO! Sam is in the toilet business now? When do us gardeners get a permanent rebate on our water bills for all the water that does not go down the sewer but we still get charged for? As most of us water our gardens and our lawns(except this summer) and not a drop goes down the sewer .And we still pay sewer charges !This is just as hair brained as free junk weekend !What citizens of Winnipeg need is new city councilors and a new mayor that is not best freinds of every developer in the province