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I fully understand that water main rehabilitation or replacement is necessary from time to time, and I greatly appreciate that myself and fellow taxpayers chose to have this important work done in recent years.

However, I am somewhat confused about how it is a better use of taxpayer money to spend weeks or months having what appear to be a contracted company driving at least a dozen or more large vehicles including semi trucks down to our area from Quebec / Canada and painstakingly cleaning (or something??) the water mains in the neighborhood.

Would it not be faster and less expensive to dig up the road and put in a new water main and then repave? Excuse me if this is naive, I honestly don’t know the costs involved, but common sense tells me that what’s happening in these pictures must be costing us a fortune.

And also the taxpayer money could be spent creating local jobs instead of sending the money out of the country?

Thanks for any insight you can offer on this concern.