Canada-Quebec Infrastructure Works

City of Châteauguay receives $4,030,590 in funding to improve its water supply infrastructure

Châteauguay, April 24, 2006 – Acting on behalf of Nathalie Normandeau, Quebec’s  Ministre des Affaires municipales et des Régions, Jean-Marc Fournier, Ministre de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport, Ministre responsable de la région de la Montérégie and Member of the National Assembly for Châteauguay, today joined the Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of Labour and Minister of Canada Economic Development,  in announcing that the City of Châteauguay will receive $4,030,590 in combined government funding under the Canada-Quebec Infrastructure Works program to improve its drinking water supply and distribution infrastructure and bring these facilities up to standard.

The first phase of the project has already been completed under the program and consisted of repairing and restoring the Marchand well, which, built in 1962, is the oldest well serving the city. The second phase involves adding an ultraviolet light disinfection system to the existing chlorination system to treat all of the groundwater coming from the  Marchand, Chèvrefils and Alonzo-Béliveau wells. This additional work will ensure the city’s compliance with Quebec’s Règlement sur la qualité de l’eau potable (RQEP).

It should be noted that the city’s water supply is fed by groundwater and its water supply infrastructure, which has a production capacity of about
90,000 cubic metres per day, currently serves some 50,000 residents of the municipalities of Châteauguay, Mercier, Saint-Urbain-Premier, Sainte-Martine and Saint-Isidore. Execution of this work will therefore help improve drinking water quality, better meet the population’s current drinking water needs and address the problem of outdated infrastructure.

This work will require an eligible investment of $8,061,181, of which $4,030,591 will be assumed by the City of Châteauguay and $2,015,295 by each the Government of Canada and Government of Quebec, for a total of $4,030,590 in combined government assistance.

Châteauguay Mayor Sergio Pavone expressed his delight at the positive impact this work will have on upgrading community infrastructure and improving local residents’ quality of life.

The Canada-Quebec Infrastructure Works program is aimed at helping communities repair, replace and build water supply, sewer and sewage treatment systems, develop projects involving experiments with new technologies and create projects that enhance, restore or construct facilities with economic, urban or regional side benefits. This aspect of the program is overseen by the Ministère des Affaires municipales et des Régions. The program also supports highway systems and public transportation, under the responsibility of the Ministère des Transports du Québec and Infrastructures-Transport. Canada Economic Development administers the program on behalf of the Government of Canada. The program will generate work worth a total of $1.686 billion.

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Sources:

Jean-Pierre Gagnon
Communications Advisor
Communications Branch
Ministère des Affaires municipales et des Régions
418 691-2019

Information:

Jonathan Trudeau
Press Secretary
Office of the Ministre des Affaires municipales et des Régions
418 691-2050
514 873-2622

Roxanne Marchand
Press Secretary
Office of the Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn
819 953-5646
613 816-5094

Isabelle Beaudin
Communications Advisor
Canada Economic Development
514 283-7301