The Chatham-Kent PUC is expecting major maintenance work on three of its water towers and stand pipes that will take care of needed maintenance and have hired an engineering firm to oversee the work.
The planning and engineering for the work on the towers in Pain Court, Blenheim and Cedar Springs will cost $584,950 and will be spread out over six years.
"We've allocated them in a list and we've now hired an engineering service to look at all three of those towers and the engineering services (costs) will encompass as the towers are refurbished," he says. "Usually it's age that gets the towers and puts them into a (need for) refurbish, but sometimes it's other factors like ice load inside and other factors."
The PUC expects to complete one tower every two years, and cost only includes engineering services not the full repair and maintenance work.
Towers in Tilbery and Chatham have been refurbished. The Chatham tower cost $2.2-million, but Sunderland says the cost of the three being planned for now will depend on the extent of the work needed.
When the the work is complete they will be painted in the same design as the towers in Tilbury and Chatham.
