The Town of Goderich today celebrated the completion of upgrades to the Water Pollution Control Plant. Ben Lobb, MP for Huron-Bruce; Carol Mitchell, MPP for Huron-Bruce and Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; and Delbert Shewfelt, Mayor of Goderich, are pleased to see this important infrastructure project reach completion. 

This project included installing an ultraviolet (UV) disinfection facility at the Goderich Water Pollution Control Plant. The new system will improve the wastewater treatment process, having a positive impact on the nearby fish habitat, and will also improve operational safety.

The governments of Canada and Ontario have each committed up to $250,433 to the project. The Town of Goderich will contribute the balance of the total eligible project cost of up to $751,300.

“The upgrades to the water pollution control plant will benefit our residents and our environment, while promoting sustainable growth for the region,” said MP Lobb. “Our government is supporting these types of projects through Canada’s Economic Action Plan as they create jobs and build stronger communities.” 

“The completion of this water plant will help keep our water clean and improve our community,” said MPP Mitchell. “Infrastructure investments like this play an important role in our Open Ontario plan to create jobs and strengthen our economy; helping build a stronger rural Ontario.”

“This plan has been in the works since 2005, so I’m delighted to say that Goderich is no longer putting chlorine into Lake Huron,” said Mayor Shewfelt. “As a town, we take what we put into the lake very seriously and I believe this upgrade has put us ahead of many other communities on the Great Lakes.”

The Government of Canada’s contribution comes from Canada’s Economic Action Plan, which provides approximately $16 billion over two years to modernize a broad range of infrastructure. These investments are helping to create and maintain jobs across Canada for the benefit of all Canadians, and will ensure the country emerges from the economic downturn with a more modern and greener infrastructure.

The Province of Ontario's contribution comes from the 2009 provincial budget. Ontario's two-year, $32.5-billon investment will support more than 300,000 jobs and strengthen Ontario's economy.

Since 2007, the governments of Canada and Ontario have committed more than $13 billion in funding to more than 6,400 infrastructure projects across the province to stimulate the economy and create jobs.