The cost for the new North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant under construction has ballooned once again.
Metro Vancouver issued a short statement Friday, saying “the new North Shore waste water treatment plant is now scheduled to be completed in 2024 with a revised cost estimate … of $1.058 billion.”
When planning began on the project more than a decade ago, its estimated cost was $400 million.
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By 2017, the estimated cost of the project had climbed to $700 million, with an estimated completion date of December 2020.
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The facility, located at 1311 West 1st Street, will serve North and West Vancouver, along with the Squamish Nation.
It will replace the ageing 1961-built facility that currently operates beneath the Lions Gate Bridge, and which processes about 32 billion litres of watewater per year.
It means Metro Vancouver taxpayers could be hit with a big utility tax bill to pay for this especially those on the North Shore.
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