City says South End Sewage Treatment Plant project will now take two more years
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There’s more bad news on the city’s South End Sewage Treatment Plant upgrade and expansion project.
The project estimate climbed 23 per cent in March and now city officials say it will take almost two additional years to complete.
The bad news comes from an administrative report to next week’s finance committee meeting. The $335.6 million project was to be completed by Oct. 31, 2016.
But now officials say most construction won’t be completed until July 2018.
The project involves construction of facilities to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from the city’s sewage waste and expansion of the capacity to accommodate future growth.
The project has been mired in controversy for three years. The city has known since April 2012 that the environmental license required new stringent effluent discharge standards had to be in effect by Dec. 31, 2015 but the project wasn’t scheduled for completion until Oct. 31, 2016.
The city has repeatedly asked the province to extend the license deadline to meet the construction deadline but there was no word from the province they would agree to an extension.
The administrative report states construction at the plant will continue past July 2018, as modifications are carried out on existing plant facilities, repurposing them for new plant processes.
The project’s price tag had been set at $272.75 million but that was amended in March in the 2015 capital budget, with a 23 per cent increase, to $335.6 million.
City officials say the latest price tag is still subject to change as it’s based on preliminary designs and is considered a Class 3 estimate, with an accuracy range of -20% to +30%.
In the fall of 2011, a break-down at the plant resulted in the discharge of 60 million litres of half-treated sewage into the Red River during a seven-week period.
aldo.santin@freepress.mb.ca
