$4M worth of water bills rescinded only cost city $350K: Morantz

By: Aldo Santin Posted: 12:00 PM CST Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014

Turns out the city is making huge profit on its sale of water to property owners.

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Turns out the city is making huge profit on its sale of water to property owners.

An administrative report to finance committee said that the water and waste department rescinded water bills totaling $4 million this year, for those 10,000 property owners who were instructed to leave their water taps running as a preventative measure to against water lines freezing.

But finance chairman Coun. Marty Morantz said the city didn’t lose $4 million, explaining the city’s cost in providing that additional water was only $350,000.

Photo by Ken Gigliotti/Winnipeg Free Press Photo archives
City and contract workers thaw frozen water pipes on March 10 at Mountain Avenue at Salter Street. — Photo by Ken Gigliotti/Winnipeg Free Press Photo archives City and contract workers thaw frozen water pipes on March 10 at Mountain Avenue at Salter Street.

“I wanted to clarify the issue of the cost of running water (during the frozen pipes situation) because there was confusion around that, that it was actually $4 million, when it’s not – the actual cost of the city was (less than) $400,000,” Morantz (Charleswood-Tuxedo) said.