Transforming the North Ipswich Reserve into a boutique rectangular stadium has been investigated by the council since the early 2000s. It has been whittled down to two design options.
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Council awards $27.5m project for new water clarifiers
Townsville City Council will invest $27.5 million to construct two new water clarifiers at the Douglas Water Treatment Plant, enhancing the facility’s capacity to produce clean, healthy drinking water for the city.
The project is the latest move by Council to swiftly address the unexpected interruptions to water delivery experienced in late 2020 and earlier this year.
Earlier this week, Council announced the completion of an enhanced secondary water intake for the Douglas Water Treatment Plant, while work duplicating the pipeline between the dam and treatment plant has been fast-tracked.
BMD Constructions has been awarded the contract to construct the new clarifiers, which is expected to support around 40 jobs. Work is expected to start this week and be completed by the end of August 2022.
Schoodic volunteers sought for coastal clean-up
GOULDSBORO All next month volunteers are needed to collect plastic jugs, buckets, crushed soda cans, fishing float line, mangled wire lobster traps and other debris tossed up by the sea and cluttering the beaches and rocky shores of the Schoodic Peninsula.
Solid Waste Committee member Becky O’Keefe is asking year-round and seasonal residents in both Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor to sign up to participate in Schoodic Shines, a joint-town initiative, to scour the two Schoodic towns’ coastline and collect all manner of trash in special bags furnished by the Maine Department of Transportation and distributed for free at the Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor town offices. O’Keefe also is seeking Schoodic area fishermen to lend a helping hand on Sundays to transport collected traps and fishing gear to OceansWide’s Traps 2 Treasure recycling facility on the Walter Road off Route 1. She said disposing of damaged traps and obsolete gea
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Good news flows to Cecil Plains as Council relaxes High level water restrictions
After many months of High level water restrictions, Cecil Plains residents are in for some reprieve with Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC) winding back restrictions to Medium level effective immediately.
The decision comes after welcome rain recently filled Cecil Plain’s weir, improving upstream water sources.
TRC Water and Waste Committee Chair Cr Rebecca Vonhoff said it was great news for Cecil Plains and she thanked residents for their efforts.
“After some good rainfall, Cecil Plains Weir is overflowing and after careful consideration Council decided to wind back restrictions, for now” Cr Vonhoff said.
WINNIPEG Winnipeg is looking at some new technology that could make water meter readings more accurate and cut back on the sticker shock of high bills, but it could take years to implement. Gary Henaire’s 83-year-old mother received a $4,000 water bill from the City of Winnipeg. “She’s got a fairly big yard but she would’ve had to water it three feet deep every inch of the yard to use that much water,” said Henaire. CTV News first spoke with Henaire and other property owners facing unexplained water bills for thousands of dollars earlier this year. Henaire is convinced there must be a problem with the water meter.