Chris Malette, Bay of Quinte MP, has confirmed $16.1 million in federal housing funding awarded earlier this year will support a new Avonlough Sanitary Pumping Station in Belleville’s west end.

In a morning meeting on Saturday, Malette gathered with Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis on the proposed project site to finalize the funding that will go toward the $55 million project that aims to build 9,000 new housing units along the city’s western boundary.

The project will also construct a new force main, and gravity and pressure sewers along Bridge Street West eastward into the city centre.

The funding will come from the Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund, Malette said.

The reaffirmation comes after the Liberal government presented its Budget 2025: Canada Strong last week with $1 trillion in

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