MOOSE JAW, SASK. — SaskWater, Saskatchewan’s commercial crown water utility, has released an annual report highlighting its accomplishments over 2017 and the first half of 2018.
The report focuses on system upgrades as well as an expansion of services and of the utility’s customer base.
SaskWater highlighted the installation of 30 kilometres of pipeline outside Melville which, along with two new wells and a well control building, was made possible by a $10.2-million grant from the Clean Water and Wastewater Fund (CWWF). Work is proceeding on a new Melville water treatment plant, which is estimated for completion by the end of 2019.
SaskWater also put in new infrastructure to deliver water to the water treatment plant for the Elbow regional supply system. The new intake, pump station and pipeline received $1.46 million in CWWF support.
Customer growth continued in 2017-18 partly because of an agreement with the Town of Kindersley where SaskWater assumed operation of the town’s water treatment plant, water tower, pump station and reservoir.
The Town of Southey also contracted SaskWater to provide 24-hour monitoring of its water treatment plant and wastewater lift station.
Other 2017 and 2018 highlights in the report included project-managing 14 grant-funded infrastructure upgrade initiatives in northern Saskatchewan on behalf of the Ministry of Government Relations and the Northern Municipal Trust Account, installing 75 solar panels at the Wakaw-Humboldt water treatment plant and marking 40 years of SaskWater’s First Nations Water and Wastewater Operator training program.
“This past year, SaskWater has built new relationships and delivered crucial infrastructure upgrades. It has continued to supply safe, reliable and sustainable water and wastewater services in a fiscally responsible manner and to make customer and community connections that will ensure continued growth and success as a provincial Crown corporation,” the Saskatchewan Minister Responsible for SaskWater Bronwyn Eyre said in a statement.
SaskWater owns nine water treatment plants, three wastewater facilities, 140 kilometres of canal and 964 kilometres of pipeline.
The annual report is available online at www.saskwater.com.
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