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NDIT grant By Xuyun Zeng Houston Today
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Council will apply for a $30,000 grant from Northern Development Initiative Trust for upgrades to the Community Hall. The upgrades will cost $50,000 and is expected to be completed in 2016. To make up the shortfall, the District will allocate $20,000 to the Community Hall Revitalization project in next year’s budget. This is also a necessary step as the NDIT’s grant has a maximum of $30,000. “This building was chosen because it’s a building that needs some upgrades,” Mayor Shane Brienen said. “We looked at it last year, we had an inspection done on the building to check out the lifespan of it because council was concerned that we didn’t want to put money into a building that may not last, but
it looks like it’s got a pretty good lifespan yet.” “It is fairly well-used in the community and we’d like to keep it up to date and running as we try to do with all our buildings.” District chief administrative officer Michael D. Glavin mentioned in his report to council that the District is looking into the areas for improvements. “The specific components of what will be included in the project are currently being evaluated by staff but will likely address issues related to the roof, lighting and/or acoustic upgrades,” it read. The deadline for applications is Nov. 13 and results will be released in January. This year, Houston Hikers has received funding from this grant that went towards developing the Mt. Harry Davis mountain bike trails.
Successes and hitches in recent water pipe pigging By Xuyun Zeng Houston Today
District engineering manager Don Hounsell presented his report of the water pipes swabbing process to council on Nov. 3, highlighting successes and hitches. He mentioned that the project came under budget
by $27,000 or 17 per cent despite having to repair a water main and two valves. “Which was very good considering the age of some of our infrastructure,” Hounsell said. A caveat here is that not all lines were cleaned and swabs are still stuck within the lines for future extraction.
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The project came under budget by $27,000 “which was very good considering the age of some of our infrastructure.” - Don Hounsell, District Engineering Manager a video with brown water coming out of the pipes that eventually turned clear. He also showed a
Hounsell mentioned the cleaning removed large amounts of debris from pipes, showing
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areas where there’s corners or things that it will not go around,” Hounsell said. “They don’t affect our water system.” In his report, Hounsell stated that public works will extract the swabs once they determine where they are, and fix the pipes so that fuSee PIGGING on Page 2
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