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Rural Municipality of Rockwood
Rockwood is a rural municipality (RM) lying north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is part of the Winnipeg Metro Region and had a 2021 census population of 8,440. The independently governed towns of Stonewall and Teulon are both enclaved within Rockwood.
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Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rockwood had a population of 8,440 living in 2,747 of its 2,927 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 7,823. With a land area of 1184.89 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
Water
The RM of Rockwood's water is supplied by three wells in operation since 1990. When the RM applied to the Public Utilities Board for water rate increases in the late 2010s, they reported a higher amount of "unaccounted for" water usage of 17% (normal is 10%). Some of this unused water came from water line cleaning, firefighting, and water main breakage. In 2017, 545 new water meters were installed to help reduce the unaccounted for water. The Stony Mountain Institution water is provided by the separate Cartier Regional Water Co-op.
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