Headingley water treatment plant under construction

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Some CentrePort Canada businesses should be able to hook up to water from the Assiniboine River in early 2016.

Large-scale business development within Brookside Industrial Park West, and other sections of CentrePort located within the RM of Rosser, has been restricted due to the lack of a water system. The City of Winnipeg was blocked from extending water service to the area by an international challenge over the city’s right to supply water outside its boundaries.

A new $26-million water treatment plant, with a capacity of 150 litres per second, is scheduled to be completed by January 2016, according to information provided by Danielle Vaillant, Cartier Regional Water Co-operative manager. It is being built by Bird Construction near the Headingley Correctional Centre.

The Cartier Regional Water Co-operative currently provides potable water to rural residents and communities located in the municipalities of Cartier, Grey, Headingley, Portage la Prairie, Rockwood, Rosser, St. Francois Xavier and to the Headingley Correctional Centre. Water is drawn from the Assiniboine River near St. Eustache and treated at the Cartier Regional Water Co-operative’s treatment plant which has a capacity of 60 litres per second.

A water reservoir and pumphouse in the western part of the RM of Rosser is also under construction, with a contract completion date of May 30, 2016. The pipe needed to carry water from the new treatment plant to the reservoir is expected to be laid by next fall.

Vaillant said, in an email message, that the three projects need to be completed before the Headingley plant can be used.

“The new water treatment facility in Headingley will take over servicing the jail and the RM of Headingley customers. It is connected to the existing distribution system, so the potential to service other residents within the co-op is an option. The two water treatment plants will give a redundancy to the Cartier Regional Water Co-op,” Vaillant said in the email.

The project will also enable the connection of future residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial developments throughout the region — one of which is Stony Mountain Institution.
Funding for the approximately $44-million project is coming from the federal and provincial governments along with the Cartier water co-op, and the municipalities benefiting from the project are each paying approximately one-third of the project costs.

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