The Municipal District of Lesser Slave River is getting ready to launch the final stages of its wastewater collection system to the Southshore communities, with plans to bore into Widewater, Wagner and Nine Mile Point homes within the year. And to help make that happen, Operations Manager George Snider last week asked M.D. council to endorse his $6.25 million CAMRIF (Canada/Alberta Rural Infrastructure Fund) grant application. The money is what the M.D. needs to complete its massive wastewater collection system.
While he promised the completed application will be en route this week, Snider said successful grant applicants aren’t likely to be announced until late summer or early fall. But he added that having the application in early might bode well for the municipality.
“The engineering studies and ground work are complete and we’re ready to go,” Snider told The Leader in a later interview. And even a fall announcement won’t necessarily delay the project until next year. The operations manager says contractors might opt to bore in the lines during winter months, then complete the tie-ins into residences in the spring. At any rate, he expects to complete the project sometime next year.
Snider added that the M.D. will use lessons learned last year in Canyon Creek — the first phase – to help expedite the process in the next step.
They’ll do that by teaching several contractors about individual hook-ups, then allow residents to hire their own contractors to connect them to the municipal line.
He says the next phase will include installation of sewer mains and individual collection lines from Canyon Creek east through Widewater and Wagner to a point just east of Nine Mile Point.
Councillors unanimously accepted his plan at their meeting on Wednesday, Apr. 11.

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