Work included:

• $600,000-plus, (of $1,190,000 contract), for route design work and rock profile drilling, while the OMB Hearing was pending.
• (The following item is bracketed, because it is the only list item that is not done at this time, entirely to accommodate Munster's sewage.) [Re-modification of Cell C of Richmond's retired lagoons (the Conservation Area), to a full sewage works, was carried out, including construction of new in-flow/out-flow piping to both Cells C and B. These modifications were designed to better handle peak flow volumes, and to be able to recover supernatant, (leaving solids permanently behind), in order to flush the forcemain between Richmond and Glen Cairn during low-flow periods. (This ---permanent solids storage use, and supernatant flushing technique--- is the same primitive procedure that was planned for Munster.) Munster's relevance to the $800,000-plus expenditure would equate to whatever amount of the Richmond lagoon capacity is required after the Munster lagoon capacity is fully tied up, therefore, it would likely be something under 1/3, of the total. Keep in mind that peak flows generally occur in both villages at the same time.]
• Twinned pipeline crossing of the Jock River, (...the one that ruptured twice, and is no longer in use).
• Repair and clean-up operations resulting from two subsequent ruptures of the twinned crossing.
• Richmond pumping station upgrades.
• Upgrading of Fortune Street ...done without disclosing to residents that the City had already selected their street as the Munster pipeline route; that, being the real reason for the elaborate, costly, and ---for the most part--- unwanted upgrading procedures. This was one more attempt by the City to hide $1,000,000-plus from the total cost figure for its outlandish Munster-Richmond pipeline scheme. (The City's pre-selected, but still undisclosed, route for the pipeline is: Munster Road, to Franktown Road / Perth Street, to Fortune Street, to York Street, to the York Street pumping station).
• A budgeted amount of $1,350,000, for the 2003 budget, (not included in the $4.5 million total, above), is earmarked for an accelerated plan to install a, $2,500,000-plus, booster station to handle "Richmond" (Munster) sewage. The Secondary Plan of Richmond shows that this was NOT slated to be built before 2008. However, it seems that this accelerated plan was being announced just in advance of the RVA report, to make it appear as though it were an unrelated item, separate from the Munster pipeline costing. (See Stittsville News article, December 11, 2002 issue, page 20.) Watch to see if this will now be taken out of the budget! What the City does with this item will tell a lot about their pipeline intentions. If this remains in the budget, it could well mean that the City intends to keep defying the public interest, and cost/safety issues, and press on with its pipeline ...IN SPITE OF THE R.V. ANDERSON FINDINGS.