A report commissioned by Russell Township and presented at a recent open house suggests that the small, rural municipality east of Ottawa will need to spend tens of millions on water and wastewater infrastructure if its population growth continues.
At the presentation, about 100 people came to look over the storyboards and asked questions. Bradley Young of CIMA+, the consulting company on the project, explains how the future water and wastewater needs were calculated, and what the report produced means, both to the township’s population growth, and its finances.
Young says the report only relates to parts of the rural area which are on municipal water and sewer, not to the rural residents or to village residents who are still on private well and septic systems.
