South Porcupine is getting a new water tower, in a project worth $26.7-million.
City Hall’s infrastructure and growth director Scott Tam says the ten-million-litre tower will replace the 6.8-million-litre reservoir.
“We’re upsizing because this will help with some of the future development in the South Porcupine area,” Tam explains. “We know that water does have some bottlenecks when it comes to future growth of South Porcupine area.”
The tower will be 58 metres tall – that’s 190 feet. Tam says the height allows water to flow into the distribution system via gravity. That eliminates the need for pumps and the added cost of maintaining them.
The tower will be on Goldmine Rd., next to the existing pressure reducing station. The existing reservoir is about four kilometres south of there, on Langmuir Rd.
