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By Angela Brown

City operations

City awards contract for water treatment plant work

Sep 28, 2022 | 5:41 PM

The City of North Battleford is undertaking work to remove sand debris that has been causing some problems at the FE Holliday Water Treatment Plant intake system.

City director of operations Stewart Schafer said in his report to council this week that staff noticed issues in the summer months of 2022. Work was done to clean the raw water intake structure of sand build-up. After the last mountain spring run-off at the beginning of August, the issue began to surface again. So the city needed to have some work done to deal with the situation.

Schafer said the city issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the work to remove the sand. While there were a number of interested parties, only one firm, True Depth Diving & Marine Services Ltd., replied to the RFP.

Council approved administration’s recommendation to award the contract to True Depth Diving & Marine Services Ltd. for the amount of $76,952 for the excavation of about 17,000 cubic metres of sand around the FE Holliday Water Treatment Plant intake structure.

Administration recommended the city proceed to excavate the sand this year before the North Saskatchewan River freezes over. The funds for the project will be included in the city’s 2023 utility budget.

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Mayor David Gillan noted the work wasn’t planned but needed to be done.

“We do have a lot of sand build-up near the intake that the FE Holliday Plant uses to draw water from the river,” he said. “There has been a lot of silt and sand depositing around the intake. As the director said, we have no choice but to have some of that sand removed so that we don’t have any possibility of not getting water drawn from the river.”

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