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Mitigation officer flags city wastewater plan and ongoing diesel contamination; requests more engineering detail before signing
Summary
County mitigation officer Mary told commissioners she received a city request for the Daniels County floodplain administrator to sign off on wastewater/sewer improvements engineered by Great West; she said she lacked maps and details and will seek further information. She also reported a diesel spill under DEQ monitoring with an update due Feb. 28 and estimated cleanup costs in the hundreds of thousands.
Mary, who identified herself as the county mitigation officer, informed commissioners that the city sent a letter asking the county’s floodplain administrator to review and sign off on proposed wastewater‑system improvements developed by Great West Engineering.
"Apparently... this system needs to be evaluated by the flood plane administrator and signed off on," Mary said, but she told the board she had not received key engineering details and planned to follow up with the project engineer before deciding whether to sign the paperwork. She asked whether signing would place the county in a particular legal position and said she would sign only if she was comfortable after reviewing the plans.
Mary also updated the board on an ongoing diesel spill near the fairgrounds. She said DEQ has installed monitoring wells and is conducting sampling; a next update was scheduled for Feb. 28. "They're monitoring... they going to have to install some monitoring wells to make sure the groundwater isn't contaminated," she said. The transcript records local estimates the remediation and replacement of contaminated tanks and infrastructure could cost between about $500,000 and $750,000.
Commissioners asked clarifying questions about floodplain mapping and whether failing infrastructure would be inundated in a dam breach; Mary cited SaskPower maps and local spring/groundwater patterns and urged coordination with DEQ and the city. She said DEQ funds may be available for monitoring but that private owners likely bear much of the capital cost.
Mary said she would contact the city engineer, request additional documentation and keep the board updated before taking any signatory action.
