The mayor of Sun Peaks says the resort municipality is waiting with baited breath to see if a $5.9-million-dollar grant comes through for a major project.

Al Raine says the water treatment plant will be built regardless in some capacity, but the municipality would “limp along” for a couple of years without the extra $5.9 million.

“That would be a significant hit to our budgets and to taxes in Sun Peaks. So we’d have to look at what alternatives there are,” Raine says.

“We already really limped through a little bit last winter, in that we didn’t have enough groundwater and we had to go to surface sources. So we kind of made it work, but there’s definitely some concerns there about future water supply.”

Raine says Sun Peaks was supposed to know this month on its grant application but says it may not know until later this fall.

“We haven’t heard, and there’s been mixed messages. We thought there would be an announcement by September, and we’ve recently heard in fact that might be delayed… Hopefully something’s going to happen in the next couple of months.”