Camrose MLA Jackie Lovely visited the Town of Daysland on Tuesday, June 30, to award the town with grant funding in the amount of $3,189,375 for their wastewater and forcemain upgrades. Back row, from left: Councillor Murray Candlish, Councillor Allan McLeod, CAO Rod Krips, Councillor Butch Robertson, PW Foreman Tein Cote, Engineer James Marr. Front Row: Camrose MLA Jackie Lovely, Mayor Ed Kusalik.
The Province made an announcement on Friday, June 19, that it would be giving out $150 million in water infrastructure grants, including $137 million from the Alberta Municipal Wastewater Partnership, funding 54 projects around Alberta.
On Monday, June 29, Daysland CAO Rod Krips announced that Daysland’s application was one of those projects that had received approval.
Daysland Council sent a letter on May 5 to Municipal Affairs Minister Kayce Madu regarding two shovel-ready projects it called, “critical for the Town of Daysland’s infrastructure.”
The town had previously been denied for funding its wastewater infrastructure and forcemain upgrade projects, and worked to retool the application, trying to bring any possible costs down.
James Marr, President and Chief Engineer with Banner Environmental Engineering Consultants, who has worked with the town on this system for the past 14 years, supported the town’s shovel-ready designation of the Lift Station and Forcemain Upgrade Project, proclaiming that the project could proceed to tender within a month of approval, with “viable construction in July and August 2020.”
Marr further said, “The Lift Station upgrade has been high on the priority list for the town since about 2013, but has been superceded by other infrastructure projects; in particular the new potable water plant and reservoir, and sanitary sewer collection system upgrade/repair.
“The potable water plant and reservoir project is now complete, as is much of the sanitary sewer piping work with approximately 3,000 m of sewer piping restoration completed, which has helped to reduce the previous inflow/infiltration problems the Town was experiencing.”
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