Niverville asks residents to rein in water use

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Niverville is again asking about half its residents to curb water usage.

Mayor Myron Dyck said he is not concerned by the town requesting that citizens living in dwellings linked to the Spruce Drive water treatment plant rein in the amount of water they use, which also happened the last two years. He explained upgrades to the water treatment plant will happen this year and the province’s water stewardship department is researching potential locations where another well can be dug.

In the midst of a humid Thursday that broke heat records throughout the province, Niverville instituted its water safeguard policy where residents at even numbered civic addresses can water their properties on even numbered days and those at odd numbered addresses are asked to only water on odd numbered days.

During periods of hot, dry weather in 2015 and 2014 the town also made this appeal, citing that water use was triple the normal amount.

Dyck said about half of the community’s estimated 1,500 dwellings are connected to the Spruce Drive plant.

Upgrades to the plant, announced last August as part of an approximate $2.1 million gifting from the federal government, is about to go to tender, explained Dyck, who said construction would begin this summer and be finished by late October.

The Spruce Drive water treatment plant was built privately to service the Fifth Avenue development on the southeastern end of town but was subsequently expanded and turned over to the town. A grand opening for the enlarged facility was held in 2012.