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January 12, 1999
(Municipal and Provincial Affairs)


Province announces $1.5 million for harbour clean-up project

Lloyd Matthews, Minister of Municipal and Provincial Affairs, announced today that the province has approved $1.5 million for Phase III of the St. John's Harbour Cleanup Initiative. The funding is the provincial government's share of a $3 million Municipal Capital Works project for 1999/2000.

In 1997, $4.5 million was approved on a three-way cost-sharing basis between the provincial government, the federal government, and the three contributing municipalities represented by the City of St. John's. The City of Mount Pearl and the Town of Paradise are contributing to the municipal share based on an agreed formula. This year's allocation of $3 million mirrors the contribution made in 1998 which brings the total spent on the project to date to $10.5 million, of which $4.5 million has come from the province.

Minister Matthews said: "This funding is signficant because it complements any future work carried out as part of the St. John's Harbour Cleanup initiative and addresses an existing problem in the Waterford Valley Area in that it enables the new owners of the St. John's Dockyard to complete scheduled development that they had been planning for the area."

He said that the funding will facilitate the tie-in of the two Waterford Valley sewers and added that work is progressing on the installation of the outfall as well as a transmission main from the pumphouse site along Southside Road to the outfall. This will consolidate the two Waterford Valley sewer systems and provide a new outfall at a point just outside the basin or old CN Dockyard area. It will provide a new upgraded outfall for approximately half of the total flow into the harbour.

In 1998, the City of St. John's, the City of Mount Pearl and the Town of Paradise, at the request of the province, set up a task force to look at the costs and possible financing of the St. John's Harbour Cleanup. Committee members include representatives of ACAP, the three municipalities, the province and the federal government.

Media contact: John Doody, Director of Communications, (709) 729-3142.

1999 01 12 10:30 a.m.


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