Everyone needs water and sewer

Tuesday September 5, 2006

Halifax – Michele Raymond, MLA for Halifax Atlantic, is calling on Mayor Peter Kelly to ensure that HRM applies for infrastructure funding to bring municipal water and sewer into Herring Cove.

The MLA wrote the mayor recently, asking that the Regional Municipality request funding to address long-standing water issues in the Herring Cove area.

‘Herring Cove is a historic community, but its wells have failed. Meanwhile, upstream, development is increasing,� says Raymond. “A major Halifax sewer dumps into the Cove, and residents live on bottled water.�

Herring Cove is one of the three host communities for Halifax Harbour cleanup treatment plants, but the community does not itself have municipal water or sewer. It is slated for future development as a suburban local centre, the same level as Bedford South and Clayton Park West.

“This area will need water and sewer.� says Raymond. “Property taxes and area rates are already driving lifelong residents out of their homes.�

“Now the estimated charges have more than doubled, and HRM still has not applied to the federal-provincial funding program designed to help fund this sort of infrastructure development.�

“The people of Herring Cove need water. Why won’t HRM apply for help for them?�

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