Upgrades are underway to the Dundalk water system.
Southgate CAO David Milliner says one change is the installation of water meters in all properties, commercial, industrial and residential this fall.
Milliner says that tender has been awarded and meters will be going in starting this month.
The second part of the project involves a rehabilitation of the well that supplies about 40 pecent of the homes in Dundalk.
In the spring, Milliner says the well was shutdown because of minor groundwater pollution getting in.
Southgate received a quarter million dollars in infrastructure money to find the source and a solution.
The CAO says they have been decommissioning some old wells in Dundalk that may be the source of the pollution.
He says they will likely decide in the next 30 to 60 days whether new casing and water treatments will solve the problem, or whether an entirely new well has to be drilled.
Milliner says the price could be 200 to 700 thousand dollars for new casing and treatments.
Southgate has applied for another special grant of 1.25 million dollars in case they have to scrap the current well and drill a new one.