The water treatment plant project is moving forward on Anticosti Island. Anticosti Islanders will have access to drinking water within a year, if the work goes as planned.
The mayor of Anticosti Island, Hélène Boulanger, is delighted with the news she has been waiting for a long time.
It’s still a lot of work that will have to be done for the rest of things. People will work for a year for this, mentions Hélène Boulanger.
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Hélène Boulanger has been waiting for more than a decade for the boil water advisory to be lifted on Anticosti Island. (Archive photo)
Photo: Courtesy of Hélène Boulanger
The $8 million project will end a boil water advisory that has been in effect for several years on Anticosti Island.
The old factory was obsolete, according to the mayor. It could not correspond [aux normes] even with water treatment and all the application of standards. It’s not with a little bit of chlorine that it can be fixed. The complexity of all that meant that [l’avis d’ébullition] was permanent, explains Hélène Boulanger.
Although the project involves the construction of a new factory, the mayor adds that the building of the old factory could be put to good use.
Hélène Boulanger maintains that the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MAMH) will finance the majority of the new plant. The MAMH has not confirmed its share of funding at this time.
According to information from Alban Normandin
