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the Melfort Rural Water Line being installed south of Tisdale
on the Golburn Road., image by : Lucas Hulsebosch
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Melfort rural water line
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| FTLComm - Tisdale - Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
This is a major construction project as this crew and their machines
stab a water line into the countryside south of Tisdale. The heavy rains had pretty
well stopped the project cold with them unable to do more than a mile of line installation
in two straight weeks.
The project involves obtaining water from the South Saskatchewan River and moving
it across the country supplying towns and villages along the way. Melfort is now
on the system and this part of the project involves running lines to farms. The cost
to individual farms is rumoured to be about $16,000 a farm.
From the image above you can see the system being employed. Three large track machines
are hitched to a forth which uses a plow to cut into the ground and lay the plastic
piple in single operation.
There is a good deal of information online about the financing of the project with
annual reports being posted to keep the public informed. In its start up phases the
water pipelines are losing from $5 to $8 million dollars a year.
In May the Melfort Rural Pipeline was declared under a bowl water order and that
order is still in affect with the chlorine levels being to low to maintain safe water.
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Timothy W. Shire
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Sask H20 , Saskatchewan
water authority web site
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SaskWater
Q1 2004 Interim Report, March 31, 2004
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Sask H20 , Advisories
and warnings, July 14, 2005, Saskatchewan water authority web site
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