Canada-Quebec investment of $2,550,000 in Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu for wastewater treatment
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Building Canada Fund – Quebec, Communities Component
Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu, Quebec, December 18, 2009 – The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of State for Canada Economic Development, today joined Laurent Lessard, Quebec’s Minister of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy, in announcing that the Municipality of Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu will received $2,550 000 in joint government financial assistance under the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund – Quebec for wastewater treatment.
The project involves putting in place all the works required for wastewater collection and treatment, including installation of a sewer system, and construction of a pumping station and an aerated lagoon treatment plant with vertical walls. These improvements will directly benefit some 258 local residents.
“The Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu wastewater treatment project will benefit the community’s residents and businesses. We are proud to be able to offer citizens the high quality of life for which our country is famous. The Government of Canada has made it its goal to ensure that every community is equipped with the infrastructure that is essential to the health, safety and well-being of our citizens. Public infrastructure renewal is part of a broad action plan that will allow us to prosper in the healthy environment,” explained Minister of State Denis Lebel.
“In supporting this project, the Government of Quebec is moving forward to ensure the province’s municipalities have infrastructure that suits their unique realities while fostering sustainable development. By injecting new capital into the Quebec Infrastructure Plan, our government is looking to accelerate the execution of numerous infrastructure projects throughout the province, like this one in Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu, in an effort to improve the well-being of Quebecers, create jobs and promote a high-performance economy. Our government wants to leave Quebec municipalities a legacy of quality infrastructure with which to face the challenges of the future,” added Minister Lessard.
Completion of this project will necessitate an overall eligible investment of $3,000,000. The governments of Quebec and Canada will each contribute $1,275,000 toward the work, for a total of $2,550,000 in combined government funding, while the Municipality of Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu will itself assume $450,000 of the project’s costs.
The Communities component of the Building Canada Fund – Quebec is a cost-sharing initiative aimed at funding infrastructure projects in communities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants. These communities are thus able to use this assistance to improve infrastructure that is in major need of revitalization, including water treatment plants, water supply systems and cultural and sports centres.
An unprecedented funding commitment on the part of the Government of Canada, the Building Canada Fund – Quebec provides stable and predictable funding to support infrastructure projects. In Quebec, nearly $4 billion will be allocated to that end.
The contribution from the Government of Canada has been awarded through Canada’s Economic Action Plan. To learn more about this plan, visit www.actionplan.gc.ca
For further information on the Government of Quebec’s Quebec Infrastructure Plan, see www.infrastructures.gouv.qc.ca.
To find out more about the Building Canada Fund – Quebec or the process for submitting a funding application, visit www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca and www.mamrot.gouv.qc.ca.
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Sources:
Simon Bachand
Press Secretary
Office of the Honourable Denis Lebel
Canada Economic Development
Tel.: 613-996-6236
Sylvain Bourassa
Press Secretary
Office of the Quebec Minister of Municipal Affairs, Region and Land Occupancy
Tel.: 418-691-2050