The Village of Burns Lake is currently preparing an application for New Building Canada Fund – Small Communities Fund program (NBCF-SCF), a program that provides communities with support in addressing their infrastructure needs.
The grant money will be used for Burns Lake’s Eighth Avenue Replacement project. The project consists in the upgrade of infrastructure such as water, sewer, storm, sidewalks and asphalt from Babine Lake Road to Center Street and from Center Street to Tenth Avenue.
The current infrastructure in that stretch of Eighth Avenue has reached “the end of its useful life” as determined by the Village of Burns Lake Capital Asset Management Plan, said Mayor Luke Strimbold.
The project costs are estimated at $2.9 million. If the village is approved for the grant, the project should start in the spring of 2015.