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I'm curious about after all has been completed, how happy are you with the A) Water and B) costs to install. I've heard the initial cost of $15,000 ended up escalating for some homeowners. Just want to see what everyone's experiences are good and bad, and please indicate what RM you are in.  
 
Thank you!!

perfect for a lot of the home owners that would never have had the chance to drill for water on their own property. And there are quite a few on this pipeline. But there are getting to be more and more people hooking on to it when they can get a perfectly sufficient water supply for half as much as the pipeline fee. Plus you don`t have water bills to pay every month. Like in the area south of Kemnay and n few houses north east of Douglas. Its always nice to not have to think about anything but turning the tap on expecting lots of good clean drinking water, but pipelines have been known to fail before. If you have no other options, yes, the pipeline is the way to go, but for pure economical sense, let alone common sense, your own well is the way to go.

Our son had the water line installed in the fall of 2016 at a cost of $18,000. He has a well that has endless amounts of water but the water is so hard it was tough to balance and ruined faucets regularly. The installation of the waterline took most of a day to do, by luck he was inspected, cut-over and up/running that night though. We fell the water tastes better than it does here in Brandon. The only downside was the cost of installation and its truly unfortunate that because of decisions made by the previous owner to opt out, the installation cost an additional $3,000.

Thank you for your responses. Anyone else?

We had water installed at our farm a couple years ago and it was the by far the best investment to the place yet!!!!

We were on the very first phase that were installed. We hauled our water so this was our only option imo. The water in our well is so orange and the well some years was dry.  
 
We paid $15,000 with it put on our taxes over the next 25 years - I think. I don’t even remember. It was the best decision we could have ever made.  
 
The water is excellent. When we hauled water from Brandon our water in our tank looked blue, when we hauled water our water in the tank was clear - as water should be!  
 
We did have a pipe spring a leak inside the house by the meter. The RM sent someone out to fix it (at our cost - around $150). Otherwise no issues

Our hookup cost $15,000 and we chose the debenture route to have it on our taxes rather than coming up with the cash ourselves and/or having to take debt out for it in our name.  
Our property had been signed up already by the previous owner (fortunately) so we did not have to pay the additional $3000 for signing up late.  
Our well water was not very good (not even for cooking) and the well had a tendency to go dry on us from time to time, so the RM water hookup was a no-brainer for us to proceed with.  
We also installed a micron filter, carbon filter and UV system for some extra purification.  
The water is perfectly clear and tastes better than Brandon water, the filtration system got rid of any chemical smell/taste in the water as well from the water treatment process.  
Hookup for us happened at the beginning of October 2017.  
We have not had any issues and are very happy not having to worry about water quality, hauling jugs of drinking/cooking water and not worrying about water shortages anymore either.

is the next area to get water?

RM of Oakland is discussing it. But we were told there were huge cost overruns in other RM's and that $15,000 would not cover the costs. We have been told there were certain yards that were charge $30,000 plus. Did anyone experience this?

it cost 15000 the 1st 400 ft to your house is free

know were in the Whitehead/Elton Water project, what area is next to get water

if my old home in Douglas got hooked up? We had a well in the basement and the quality of water was pretty good I thought. Never had a water softener or anything.