High River council's voted to have the Mayor send a letter to the Alberta Government to have the removal of infrastructure in the Beachwood area included as part of the removal of the neighbourhood.

Mayor Craig Snodgrass thought it already would be included.

He says, it's different from Wallaceville where the Town asked for the province's support and the infrastructure was included.

"With the Floodway Relocation Buyout, the actual underground and surface infrastructure for the whole neighbourhood, not specific properties, is not part of that," he says.

The work involves removing the roads and street lights to return the area to its natural state.

The Province is conducting it's second round of house auctions in the Beachwood area after the first resulted in only a few of the home selling and only a couple actually were moved.

Mayor Snodgrass doesn't expect the second auction to be a lot more successful than the first.

"I don't get it, you tried it once, why you'd try it again is beyond me, but hopefully with the results of the next one (auction) we know what it's going to look like, that they'll start running track hoes through these houses and move on, get them torn out of there and take the infrastructure with you while you're going," Snodgrass, says.

 

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