A grant application is being submitted by the City of Lloydminster for a water project.
Following a successful motion by council, administration will be submitting a grant application to the Alberta Municipal Water/Wastewater Partnership Program (AMWWP). The project in question is for clarifier structural repairs, drive and tube replacement. The total cost of the project is estimated at $1.5 million.
The AMWWP program provides cost-sharing funding of up to 75 per cent of project costs to eligible municipalities for water and wastewater treatment facility projects.
Due to Lloydminster being bi-provincial, the city will get a smaller cut of the funding.
“The larger you are the less percentage they’ll fund. In our case being on the larger side of the 45,000 max, and also us being bi-provincial we only can actually get about 15.87 per cent of the total project cost,” said Ryan Hill, financial planning and analysis manager with the City of Lloydminster.
Hill says after reviewing the various projects and reaching out to the grant beforehand they determined this particular project had the highest likelihood of obtaining the grant.
“Because we supply water to other communities through ACE (Alberta Central East Regional Waterline), was that taken into account based on the allocation and usage of the water treatment plan?” Asked Lloydminster Mayor Gerald Aalbers.
It was not added to the application and Aalbers would like to see it get added to strengthen the request.
“If we can add it to the grant application somewhere, so it’s that point, by the way it’s not just Lloydminster it’s a regional project,” he said.
If the grant application is unsuccessful, the grant portion of $238,050 will come from the Environmental Capital Reserve. Council will be covering the remaining portion of $1,261,950 from the environmental capital reserve. A council motion was required for administration to submit the grant.
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