Full steam ahead for Shellbrook’s own water treatment plant
The Mayor of Shellbrook is describing a joint venture with the Prince Albert Rural Water Utility (PARWU) as a detour on the town’s journey for better water.
With no grants available, and a price tag that was near $80 million, plans to build the new water treatment plant in the Cudworth area came to a sudden halt. The town, one of many communities involved with the project, later removed itself from the utility.
“When that failed it was sort of the writing on the wall for us this was the way to go,” Amund Otterson said.
He also explained that when the utility then placed its reliance on the city for water, the price became too high for Shellbrook. On top of that local community members also expressed their own desire for the town to have complete control and remove the various levels of government involved with the utility.