This may be the last summer residents of Lunenburg will have to hold their noses.
The town is asking for tenders on a bio-filter for the wastewater treatment plant.
It has been proposed as the solution to the ongoing odour problem.
Mayor Rachel Bailey says doing the water infrastructure work on Pelham and Lincoln Streets simultaneously has freed up some funding.
Water work starting on Lincoln St. in @TownLunenburgNS. Closed between King and Hopson. pic.twitter.com/dFquF3loub
— Ed Halverson (@edwardhalverson) May 15, 2017
“When that kind of thing happens you get all sorts of efficiencies realized. And so it came in under the projected estimates for the cost of each project had they been done individually,” says Bailey. “We may be able to direct some money saved on what was estimated from that project to put to another project that is very much on people’s minds.”
Bailey says because the money is tied to federal dollars they don’t get to keep the surplus, but they can apply for funding for other projects.
While there’s no guarantee they will get the grant, they want to be prepared to go ahead as soon as possible if the money does come through.