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By Susan McNeil

Infrastructure

An inside job; Shellbrook moves up sewer repairs

Jul 28, 2022 | 3:03 PM

The wastewater system in Shellbrook will be getting rehabilitated thanks to an inside job.

Council decided to fast-track a project they have been working on for years and borrow the money to do it this year, said Mayor Amund Otterson.

“We‘ve been spending about 100,000 to 200,000 a year on sewer line rehabilitation with a lining project,’ Otterson.

The contractor puts a fabric liner that resembles a long sock inside the sewer pipe and inflates it.

It has an epoxy in it that allows it to harden and so now we have a new interior to an aging sewer line and it extends their life substantially,” he explained.

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The Town decided that it would be a better move to use the $100,000 to make the annual payments on a $3 million loan and have the project completed right away over spending the same amount and taking decades to finish the job.

“We save on mobilizations, we save on inflation, so it’s a good plan we think,” Otterson said. Ratepayers have had a chance to look at it as well and were on board.

The work should start in the next five or six months and can be done over the winter months as well.

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susan.mcneil@pattisonmedia.com