Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Executive gives the go ahead to the CPR dam

Water flows through the CPR dam on May 27, 2013.

Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


The CPR dam replacement will proceed.

At Monday’s meeting executive committee voted to receive and file the report regarding the CPR dam replacement that the majority of council voted to send back to executive at its last meeting. With the report received and filed the next step is to issue request for proposals.

“This is 100 years of what we’ve enjoyed, all of us who’ve lived here and all the people before us,” said Coun. Heather Eby. “Maybe it is just a setting, but taking it away does not make Moose Jaw a better place to live or visit and I am absolutely in favour of moving this forward. I think the design’s great as far as I can tell.”

However, Coun. Brian Swanson said council should re-examine the project because there are “higher priorities” council should spend money on instead.

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See here for a Times-Herald slideshow of photos of the CPR dam taken on June 18, 2013.