Winnipeg’s North End Sewage Treatment Plant project gets $16M more funding from Ottawa
Winnipeg is getting a $16-million boost in its funding from the federal government to help with upgrades to the city’s largest sewage treatment plant.
The funding will go toward completing Phase 2 of improvements at the North End Sewage Treatment Plant, which is more than 90 years old and provides 70 per cent of the city’s wastewater treatment.
The funding will ensure the city’s housing sector can grow, protect Lake Winnipeg and maintain affordable utility rates, said Terry Duguid, federal minister of Prairies Economic Development Canada, during a news conference on Monday.
The money is part of a 10-year agreement under the Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund to improve critical infrastructure related to drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and solid waste that’s intended to expand sewage capacity and allow more homes to be built.
The city estimates the full cost of the project will be $3 billion.

Without the upgrades, the city could run out of sewage capacity in six years, Duguid said.
The federal government previously promised $150 million in funding, which was included in the federal fall economic statement in Ottawa.
Mayor Scott Gillingham said the funding is a major step forward in improving the city’s “largest, most expensive, most complicated” capital infrastructure project.
He said the three levels of government need to continue working together to secure funding to complete Phase 3, the final stage of upgrades to the sewage treatment plant.
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