An update is expected in the coming weeks on what is being done about Moncton’s north-end smell.
Councillor Bryan Butler told Moncton City Council this week, that he is still getting emails and phone calls from residents.
“I see back in May of last year, there was supposed to be something put on the committee for the tri-community with a meeting regarding the three communities working on the smell in the north end. We as a council have voted unanimously in a motion that passed. That was almost two years ago. There was nothing in the budget this year, and now that the spring comes, and now we get the southwest winds, the smell is back, and we have asked over and over for staff to try to come up with some type of a plan.”
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Butler added that two new people were appointed to the TransAqua Board.
“Now we are probably into the fifth or sixth year that this has been going on. These people are sending in complaints to that form. They never get any word back. They don’t get any word back from us or what we’re going to do. So I would hope and ask that the CAO would supply the council with a written report so I can share it with the residents of Ward Three, what we as a council have done and what the staff has done.”
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He adds with spring on the horizon, there’s humidity and high temperatures and the smell goes bad.
Moncton’s Chief Administrative Officer Serge Doucet says they also heard reports last week, and they are now getting some answers, “We’ve reached out to TransAqua, and we’re getting some answers. We will provide in writing, an update on all that has occurred since the last year from the motion and the conversations that we’ve continued to have with TransAqua, so we’ll have a written report in the coming weeks.”
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