Crews have begun work on phase three of the Hart Highlands sewer project.
80 homes in the Killarney – Wildwood area are being hooked up to the City of Prince George’s sewer system for the first time.
More than 70% of the homeowners in the area approved the project through a petition and will be paying the city back for the installation over a 20 year period.
“There has never been a sewer system in this neighbourhood, each of these houses when they were built, would have had a septic system on their private property. “Project Manager Hayley Sedola said “I think the majority of them would have been built in the 1970’s”
Many of the septic systems in the neighbourhood are aging, and Sedola says this is the third such project to be rolled out in the Hart.
“We’ve been approaching them based on catchment areas… if you think of sewers flowing downhill, we look at an area that all goes in the same direction and that’s done as a group.”
The 80 homeowners will be covering the $1.9 million sewer portion of the project while the City pays for the water hook ups and road upgrades.
Construction will run into October of 2016 and will be finished off in the Spring of 2017. Traffic will be blocked by construction on Wildwood – Crescent until the end of June.
