City of Victoriaville

$16,000,000.00 CAD

≈ $0.39 for every person in Canada ≈ 207 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities
Program
Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2021-2022
Agreement period
August 11, 2021 – March 28, 2028
Reference
infc:278-2021-2022-Q2-00003

Published purpose

The project goal is to set up a raw water reserve protected from the waters of the Beaudet Reservoir with two separate water intakes one in the reservoir, the other upstream in the Bulstrode River (upstream of industrial storm drains), dredging part of the reservoir Beaudet in order to obtain a total useful volume of raw water to protect the water intake and allow for a sufficient volume of raw water to cope with a significant drought, to dehydrate the dredged sediments on a drying bed (permanent installation) and dispose of it in a sediment disposal area that will be transformed into a recreational and tourism area.

In plain English AI-generated

The project involves building a protected raw water reserve with two intakes, dredging part of the Beaudet Reservoir, and creating a sediment disposal area that will become a recreational and tourism site, to improve drought resilience.

Category: Infrastructure Primarily funds activity in Canada

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