The third phase of the Lorne Street Floodwater Mitigation project is now approved for funding from the federal and provincial governments.
The agenda package for Monday’s Sackville town council meeting includes discussion of a letter from New Brunswick’s Regional Development Corporation informing the town that just over $4 million in funding towards the project has been approved.
The province is contributing just over $1.8 million, and the federal government is chipping in just under $2.2 million. The town of Sackville share of the project is slightly under $1.5 million.
Plans for Phase III of the flood mitigation project include two new stormwater retention ponds, one in the old Pickard Quarry, and one behind the community gardens on Charles Street. These two ponds would more than double the storage capacity for freshwater in the town, which should be enough to accommodate rainfall from a one-in-100-year storm.
The project also includes about a kilometre of ditching to help drain the Charles Street pond into the Tantramar River when the tide allows.
What’s not included are new aboiteaux to help drain stormwater into the Tantramar River. That will require further cooperation from the provincial government, this time the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, which owns and operates the aboiteaux along the Tantramar River.
More to come on this story.
