The City of Dryden has some challenges when it comes to it’s infrastructure deficit.
The city’s assets have been put at $847 million, an increase of over $70 million in just two years.
Adam Monteith from Hemson Consulting says some of the city assets are not in good shape.
“About 30 percent of your sewer infrastructure is in very poor condition and about 30 percent of your roads are also in very poor condition,” Monteith told Dryden city council as he was going through the Asset Management Plan.
“Your water infrastructure is kind of aging. The linear infrastructure in particular is quite old. So, we’ve got just over 50 percent of the assets in very poor condition.”
Overall, the report finds that 40 percent of the city’s infrastructure in in good or very good condition, but 40 percent is listed in poor or very poor condition.
Several scenarios have been developed for the city, but each call for an increase in spending on repairing or replacing its infrastructure and they also include an increase in property taxes.
