By J.P. Antonacci, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Hamilton Spectator Four years ago, councillors and staff in Norfolk County were brimming with optimism about an ambitious plan to pipe clean water from a giant treatment plant in Nanticoke to communities throughout Norfolk and Haldimand counties, along with nearby Six Nations. Norfolk’s public works department said the interurban water system would have replaced treatment plants on the brink of failure and allowed for stalled housing development to proceed. But senior levels of government were unwilling to turn on the taps to fund the costly scheme, so the dream went down the drain. “We’re still adamant that interurban water is a viable solution for us,” Andrew Grice, Norfolk’s director of public works, told councillors at Tuesday’s meeting in Simcoe. “But in the…
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