Waterworth

The Village of Western Springs is a Chicago suburb of approximately 14,000 people. Between updating aging infrastructure, difficulties communicating needs to stakeholders, and establishing sufficient rates, they needed to find a solution that could ensure the Village provided satisfactory services, while managing multiple infrastructure priorities ⬇️

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What difference can a sustainable infrastructure replacement plan make?

Profiled byThe Partnership for Water Sustainability, the District of Oak Bay is leading by example with its inter-departmental approach to embedding a life-cycle lens, along with a sustainable service delivery culture, into a local government finance vision.

Through its Sustainable Funding Plan, Oak Bay is demonstrating what a difference it makes when municipal staff have clear direction from Council to achieve two outcomes: 1) stem the incremental erosion of levels of service in the short-term; and 2) translate an intergenerational perspective into a life-cycle plan of action for perpetual infrastructure renewal.

Read the plan:https://waterbucket.ca/gi/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/12/Oak-Bay_sustainable-funding-plan_2021.pdf