July 15, issue 28

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TIMES The Voice of North Grenville

Vol. 3, No. 28

July 15, 2015

Fetherston residents still waiting

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The residents of Fetherston Park, south of Kemptville, are still waiting to have their new septic and water system installed, more than a year after work on the company’s “state-ofthe art” sanitation system was scheduled to begin. Last Saturday, the residents met with Kevin Loiselle, President and CEO of Clearford Industries, to get some information on why there had been such a long delay, and when they might expect to see the new Clearford One system up and working. The Fetherston Residents Association were clearly unhappy with

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Clearford’s failure to move as quickly as they had promised to end the ongoing saga of sanitation woes that had almost led to their wholesale eviction by the Municipality of North Grenville just two years ago. But hard work and perseverance on the part of the residents led to talks with the Municipality, and now the residents own the Park and had felt the battle they had waged for so long was close to an end. Clearford signed an agreement with the residents’ association to supply a model for funding, design, build, and operation of upgraded potable water and wastewater, which would service the existing mobile home units,

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with capacity to handle another one hundred sites. The residents have renovated the Park grounds and raised more than $140,000 towards the cost of the installation and operation of the new system, but, as Kevin Loiselle explained to the meeting last weekend, Clearford had found it more difficult than they had expected to find the financing required to fully fund the installation. Although, he said, the company had come close on a number of occasions to finalising funding with various parties, it was finally decided to finance the project inhouse. Fetherston Park, he said, was designed to be the model project which

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Clearford would use to market the Clearford One system worldwide. It was, he told the residents, very important to the company that Fetherston’s system would be acknowledged as one that would be viable in much larger facilities. The company already has projects as far apart as Columbia, India and Northumberland County in Ontario. The Fetherston project comes under their Pay for Performance [P4P] program, which allows residents at Fetherston to pay set monthly fees for service, which also cover installation and operation of the system. According continued on page 2

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