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By James Peters

Infrastructure Upgrades

Pritchard water, sewer system upgrades in the works

Oct 24, 2024 | 11:50 AM

PRITCHARD, B.C. — The community of Pritchard is on its way to getting a new water treatment plant.

The Thompson Nicola Regional District has announced its board of directors awarded a contract to build the filtration plant to True Construction of Kamloops. The contract’s value is a maximum of $4.75 million, though the total cost of the project, including engineering and design, is $6.15 million.

The federal government is funding the vast majority of the project through a pair of grant programs — the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program and the Growing Communities Fund. The remaining $150,000 is coming out of the Pritchard Community Water System reserve fund.

The filtration plant is slated to be up and running by late 2025.

Alongside that new plant, the TNRD expects upgrades to the Pritchard sewer system to be complete around the same time.

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That $2.15-million project involves the equipment upgrades and replacements. Eighty-two per cent of that project is grant funded, with the remaining $395,000 coming from sewer system reserve funds.