Kincardine is ready to move ahead with the water and sewer project, planned for Inverhuron.
Those supporting the nine-million-dollar build say it was time to let councillors know that the project needs to proceed.
Two delegations both urged the municipality to fast-track the project in order to get funding from senior levels of government.
The province and the feds are prepared to ante up a-third each of the cost, as long as the project is done by next March.
Just recently, Kincardine was informed there would be no extension of the deadline for the Build Canada Fund money.
Inverhuron seasonal resident Joan Paterson drove to the council meeting from Toronto to express her concerns, although she wasn’t allowed to address councillors because she was not registered as a delegation in time.
Paterson says it doesn’t matter.
The others said what had to be said.
She says it’s about the health of the community.
Paterson suggests “another Walkerton” could be looming in Inverhuron if the water and sewer issue does not go ahead.
She also says she thinks the pro-project people have been quiet because they felt that common sense would prevail but she says “Obviously common sense isn’t as common as it used to be.”
Paterson and the delegations that did speak say the majority of residents in the hamlet are in support of the project.
The Inverhuron Watershed Concerned Citizens Association says it is opposed to any mandatory hookup to the new water and sewer services and suggests the group represents a lot of people.
Meanwhile Kincardine CAO Murray Clarke says they’re putting the finishing touches on the tender with a turnaround expected by the end of the month and a report back to council in the first week of May.
