Deal with Mattamy will fast-track Richmond’s sewer infrastructure
From the Manotick Messenger
The City of Ottawa Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee has recommended staff enter into an agreement with Mattamy Limited that would see the developer pay the City to build sanitary sewer infrastructure for the Village of Richmond earlier than planned.
According to the city, development within the village is limited by the need to upgrade the Richmond Village Sanitary Pump Station, a project that is currently underway, and to add a second sanitary line along Eagleson Road. The City has plans to add that line, but not until 2026. An agreement with Mattamy would allow that work to proceed much sooner, providing enough capacity within the village to allow further development in Richmond to proceed.
Mattamy would pay the City more than $11.6 million to install 5.9 kilometres of sanitary sewer, work that would also benefit existing residents by improving system capacity and preventing overflow. Mattamy would be reimbursed for its investment through a special area development charge, to be paid quarterly as it’s collected, and from the city’s sewer reserves, to be paid in 2026.
The Richmond Village Sanitary Pump Station upgrade design is underway, and construction is anticipated to be completed by the second quarter of 2022. This upgrade will provide enough capacity to allow approved developments in the Village of Richmond to proceed.
Mattamy (Jock River) Limited has applications for subdivision development in the Village of Richmond with the City of Ottawa for approval which are being placed on hold due to the limited available capacity both pre- and post-Richmond Sanitary Pump Station improvements. In order to increase sanitary flow capacity over and above the Richmond Village Sanitary Pump Station upgrade to allow further development in the Village of Richmond, 5.9 kilometres of additional 600-millimetre diameter sanitary forcemain, running parallel to the existing 500-millimetre diameter forcemain needs to be constructed.
While this 600-millimetre diameter forcemain twinning of the existing forcemain is not for the entire length to the Glen Cairn Trunk Sewer in Kanata, it will reconnect to the existing forcemain, which will provide for additional capacity for Mattamy (Jock River) Limited to develop. The option to complete the remaining portion of the twinning of the existing forcemain will be when further development pressures and funding levels are defined.
Recommendations from the Sept. 3 Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee meeting were scheduled to be discussed at City Council on Wed., Sept. 9.