A new bill could soon arrive in Irene Boyko's mailbox and she fears it’ll more than just a drop in the bucket.

"We're not too happy about the money to put out,” said the RM of St. Andrews homeowner.

Right now Boyko and homeowners in the RM of ST. Andrews use septic fields and tanks that handle wastewater. But they can leak or overflow causing run-off. In 2011, the province outlawed the use of septic fields along a stretch of the Red River corridor in St. Andrews.

The municipality is set to vote on a new sewer system that will cost each impacted homeowner $7,300 dollars, plus a $200 dollar annual fee paid to the City of Winnipeg.

The plan is homeowners must connect to a sewer line that will run from the community to Winnipeg's treatment plant. Around 900 homes will be hooked up for phase one of the project. A similar number of properties is estimated for phase two.

St. Andrews Mayor George Pike says homeowners can pay for the upgrades over 20 years. New builds will have to pay up front. He said its worth the cost to better protect the Red River, Lake Winnipeg and the water supply.

"Everybody's on well water out here, and we don't want to get into a boil water situation and that would be far more expensive for people in St. Andrews if we get into that situation," said Pike.

Construction of phase one will begin this fall or next spring and take about a year to finish. The design of phase two will begin after phase one is underway with the hope of completing the entire system by 2020. Once construction is done, homeowners will have up to five years to connect to the new system. Mayor Pike says this will cost between $25 and $30 million. He says the other levels of government have costs shared for phase one with negotiations yet to take place for phase two.