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On track to Christmas: The CP Rail Holiday Train rolled into Sicamous Wednesday night, Dec. 16, bringing with it entertainers Jim and Devin Cuddy and Kelly Prescott (above), along with a$5,500 donation to the Eagle Valley Community Support Society (left). Also providing entertainment in the houseboat kiosk were Eagle River Secondary jazz band students. Photos by Victoria Rowbottom
District pursues new engineering firm for waste facility By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
The District of Sicamous will be shopping around for another engineering firm to determine how best to proceed in upgrading the community’s wastewater treatment plant. District council has agreed to put out a request for an expression of interest from engineering firms willing and available to “provide expertise in assessing the system that currently exists and facilitating necessary upgrades to the district’s wastewater treatment plant.”
According council in January. to a staff memo During that preto council by sentation, TRUE’s It may delay the process… Terry Underwood public works but I think in the end we’ll end r e c o m m e n d e d supervisor Darup with a far superior product several upgrades rell Symbaand hopefully it comes in close worth about $1.56 luk, a “signifito what we have in the budget. cant degree of million. These, he work” has alexplained, would Jeff Mallmes ready occurred bring the plant Councillor on the project into compliance under the guidwith the district’s ance of TRUE Consulting Ltd. who got the waste management permit, as the amount ball rolling with an assessment of the plant of waste being discharged into the system, and a subsequent report/presentation to particularly organics, has, at peak times,
been exceeding allowable capacity. Underwood said the upgrades would allow the plant to meet the needs of the community until 2025. That $1.56 million estimate later jumped to $1.85 million when collection system generators were added to the plans for the district’s grant funding application to the Small Communities Fund. In July, it was announced that application had been successful, and the federal and provincial governments would be kicking in two-thirds of the needed funding ($128 million), with See Committee on page 3