Following a July 2 recommendation from the Governance and Priorities Committee (GPC), Rocky View County council approved $50,000 for administration to commission an engineering review on the extension of County water and wastewater servicing to West Balzac. The approval was made at the July 23 regular meeting.
According to administration, the preliminary report would evaluate pipeline routing, confirm land requirements, obtain feedback from Alberta Transportation and provide staging options to extend the utilities from East Balzac to West Balzac.
Council voted 6-3 to approve the funding, with Couns. Kevin Hanson, Samanntha Wright and Crystal Kissel opposed.
“There’s a number of assumptions that are being stretched quite a bit to even make this thing look like it’s worth spending $50,000 on,” Hanson said. “We seem to think there’s wastewater available in Weed Lake, and by my count, we’ve already over subscribed that.”
