$1.9M Tide Head water reservoir project on tap for this summer

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A major infrastructure project is being planned for the Campbellton Regional Community this summer, with a host of others on the horizon.

The city will replaced its water reservoir in the Tide Head section, as the current one is outdated and needs upgrades, council heard recently.

That Mountain Road project, for which council approved borrowing last winter, will be started soon at the cost of about $1.9 million.

Andre Bernard, of the engineering firm of Boissonnault & McGraw, said numerous other projects need to be undertaken over the next number of years, including the completion of work on Yorsdun Court, one of the shortest streets in the Campbellton section with fewer than 10 homes. He said the cost is expected to be around $180,000 to complete the underground work.

He said significant work needs to be done on water and sewer lines in other areas of the city as well, and said Lansdowne Street from Minto to Adam could be done at the estimated cost of $1.5 million next year. That work would connect the two streets in the central core of the city that were the most recent to have work done on the underground infrastructure. 

Money for that could come from the city’s annual gas tax rebate, he said, while it could borrow $1.7 million to do Dumanoir Street in Atholville from St. Patrick to Yvon Jean – the other project that Bernard suggested could be done next year – by using long-term financing.

One major street could see work done over the course of the final three years of Bernard’s plan. For 2026, Bernard listed Roseberry Street (Subway to Minto) at the cost of $3.9 million then the section from Minto to O’leary in 2027 for about $2.6 million followed by O’Leary to the National Bank just past Shannon Street in 2028 at a cost of about $2.8 million.

Coun. Luc Couturier noted the work on Roseberry would cause significant disruption to businesses for three consecutive summers.

“It’s going to cause a lot of headaches for not only those businesses but for people trying to get in and out of town, but at the end of the day, these improvements need to be done. I just hope that it won’t be too much for them,” he said.

CAO Manon Cloutier said the list is not written in stone and that council ultimately has the say in what projects are undertaken and when.