Wastewater management would benefit from being rethought with the deployment of mechanisms governing infrastructure management and optimizing activities to avoid additional costs, according to the report of the Auditor General (AG) of the City of Terrebonne.
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Sonya Guilbault, who filed her annual report for the year ended December 31, believes that better supervision is necessary “to better support the teams” in the field, by evaluating the time required and the means made available in the framework of this project.
This way of doing things should make it possible to optimize operations with wastewater infrastructures, avoiding the deficits recorded in the last three-year investment plans of the Régie d’essaisissement des eaux de Terrebonne-Mascouche.
“Even if the City and the Terrebonne-Mascouche Water Sanitation Board (RAETM) have put in place mechanisms that allowed them to monitor compliance with regulatory requirements, other mechanisms must however be deployed both in terms of monitoring operational performance and infrastructure management to oversee the activities carried out by the various players,” observed Sonya Guilbault.
The Auditor General notes that the attention given to agricultural land does not ensure better protection of it from a sustainable development perspective, due in particular to the lack of integration of the orientations.
“Forty-two percent of the total area of the City’s territory is in an agricultural zone, with land with good cultivation potential. Although it has adopted various orientations for several years to promote activities in this sector, few actions to reach them and ensure follow-up have been put in place,” Ms. Guilbault lamented.
