Monday, January 26, 2026
The government of Ontario is investing $11.5 million towards upgrades and expansion of the Town of Penetanguishene’s critical water infrastructure.
The funding through the Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program’s Health and Safety Water Stream is part of the province’s broader $700 million investment in water infrastructure throughout the province.
Approximately 73 per cent of total costs will be supported through provincial funding, a Town of Penetanguishene release said.
This funding supports Penetanguishene’s Robert Street West Well Treatment Facility project, expanding our water supply capacity to support future growth, establishing a secondary source of safe drinking water for our residents, and adding a new reservoir to help stabilize the distribution system during peak demand,” Town of Penetanguishene mayor Doug Rawson said.
The Robert Street West Well Treatment Facility project will add 3,300 m³/day of new water supply capacity to the Payette Drinking Water System, which currently relies on a single groundwater source vulnerable to potential contamination due to its proximity to an industrial area, the release said.
The project will also restore the Robert Street West Well Field which was taken offline in the early 1990s due to Trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination. The facility will be restored using oxidation treatment technology to safely remove TCE and bring the well field back into service as a critical secondary water source, the release said.
Well No. 3 will also be rehabilitated through decommissioning of the aging underground reservoir and construction of a new treatment facility and reservoir to to stabilize the distribution system during peak demand.
Once complete the project will provide enough capacity to service up to 5,000 additional housing units, the release said.
