City awards contract for water treatment upgrades

City council has agreed to award the contract for upgrades to Iqaluit’s water treatment facility to Ninety North Construction. NNC’s bid of $3.6 million is 10 per cent, or about $400,000, over the budgeted cost for the project.

The project will require the reallocation of funds within the city’s five-year capital plan, said Steve Burden, capital projects consultant for the department of engineering.

“They’re doing a complete upgrading of the plant including the building envelope, expanding the filters and installing a disaffection system to increase the capacity of the plant to serve the municipality for the next 20 years,” Burden said.

Construction is scheduled to begin mid- to late-July and proceed about eight months into next winter.