Officials announce more than $21 million in funding for a new wastewater treatment facility in Rothesay on Aug. 12, 2021. (Image: Tamara Steele)
The town of Rothesay is one step closer to getting its long-awaited new wastewater treatment facility.
Provincial and federal officials announced more than $15.8-million in combined funding on Thursday.
Rothesay will contribute the remaining $5.7 million for the new facility at the site of the existing two-step lagoon.
According to a government news release, the new facility is the second phase of a larger initiative to modernize the town’s wastewater collection system.
The facility will increase treatment capacity by using ultraviolet disinfection and, once completed, will release cleaner water into the Kennebecasis River.
Big bucks for a new treatment facility in Rothesay. pic.twitter.com/ItdPh54jvd
— Tamara Steele (@tamarasteele1) August 12, 2021
The town’s sewage lagoons flooded in 2018 and 2019 contaminating the Kennebecasis River.
Rothesay Mayor Nancy Grant said the new facility will keep the river much cleaner.
“It’s a tertiary treatment plant so that means [there] is UV sterilization at the end which is going to be mean very clean water. The effluent is very clean going back into the river. It’s going to exceed the new federal standards,” Mayor Grant said.
When the new facility is up and running, the town’s sewage lagoons will be decommissioned.
Mayor Grant was pleased to see their regional partners on hand, noting keeping the river clean is important to everyone.
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