Blenheim’s water tower is back online after a major rehabilitation. 
General Manager of the Public Utilities Commission Tim Sunderland says the work started last spring.
“Construction actually started in March, 2017,” Sunderland says, “so that’s when scaffolding showed up on site and the construction workers started to mobilize.”
The work, which had a total price tag of $1.7-million, included interior remediation and sandblasting, as well as exterior paint work.
Sunderland says eventually all of Chatham-Kent’s water towers will have a similar look.
“Every 20 years water towers need to be rehabilitated, so every second year we’re on a water tower construction project.”
Dresden’s is next in line to be updated.
