Looking Ahead: Municipality of Brighton

2025 will see the mayor and council in the Municipality of Brighton continuing efforts to have an expanded mechanical sewage treatment plant become a reality.

Mayor Brian Ostrander says they’ll be knocking on doors looking for some serious cash.

“That’s a multi-million dollar project so we’re going to need nearly 40 million dollars of assistance from our federal and provincial friends in
order to make that possible, in order to continue to grow our community and maintain our commitment to help house people, even at an affordable level if we can.”

Meanwhile, design work is already well underway for a new wastewater plant which would be located where the current lagoon/manmade wetland system is, not far south of urban Brighton.

Brighton just keeps growing and Ostrander says they’ll be finishing up the design work for a new fire and emergency services base.

The current fire hall in town is too small and council bought a piece of land from the school board next door and will eventually expand to allow the paramedic service to join with the fire department in the building.

Ostrander says having paramedics based in town will allow a community paramedicine program to get rolling.

“Helping to alleviate primary health care and emergency room visits so it’s a good program, it’s well funded and it’s certainly cheaper than people showing up at the ER when they really don’t need that kind of service.”

Ostrander says streets and roads will continue to be modernized in the new year, including on Walas and Harbour streets in the southern part of urban Brighton.

Mayor of Brighton and Northumberland County Warden Brian Ostrander (Photo: Northumberland County)