Seven Cape Breton-Canso candidates will be in Inverness Sunday.
The president of the Inverness Development Association, which organised the Q&A, says the community has some questions they’d like answered, and she is giving them a chance voice their concerns; chiefly, the sorry state of their wastewater treatment plant.
Rose Mary MacDonald says the community’s wastewater plant is over-capacity and is causing an intermittent smell throughout the community.
MacDonald tells The Hawk the municipal application for wastewater infrastructure funding is in bureaucratic limbo with the upcoming election and the earliest construction could begin is summer 2020.
“To the community that’s not acceptable, we can’t go through another summer of having that stench throughout our community,” she says. “It’s affecting health, air quality, and it’s affecting our economy because tourists are also coming through and experiencing that smell.”
MacDonald says they’re going to make sure the candidates know that.
She says they need a candidate who’ll make sure the funding goes through, and quickly.
