The City of Saskatoon is highlighting a water project which was completed earlier this year that ensures a reliable supply of clean water to residents and businesses in the northeast party of the city, in Evergreen, Aspen Ridge and Willowgrove.  The McOrmond Drive Reservoir and Pump Station has been in operation since March.

Photo: City of Saskatoon – McOrmond Drive reservoir interior

Director of Saskatoon Water, Russ Munro, says as Saskatoon continues to grow this reservoir and pump station is an important addition to their water management system.  Both the federal and provincial governments contributed almost $14.7 million each for this project and the city’s total was just over $27 million.

photo: City of Saskatoon – Spadina lift station sewer pipe

The City is also touting another project – the construction of a new Spadina Lift Station and force main, which moves about 60 per cent of Saskatoon’s wastewater from the sanitary sewer system to the M. McIvor Weir Waste Water Treatment Plant. It has been in service now for about three months.

Munro says the decision to build new instead of modifying the old one built in the 1940s, which was originally a sewage disposal facility and then repurposed in the 1970s as a lift station, made the most sense. This is another project which received federal and provincial funding. The federal government provided $7.2 million for this project and the province handed over close to $6 million, while the City of Saskatoon invested $4.8 million.

Photo: city of Saskatoon – Spadina lift station interior