Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Not all affected residents willing to sign land control for CPR dam

By Lisa Goudy

The CPR dam replacement has hit a brick wall.

In order for a dam replacement to take place in Wakamow Valley, the City of Moose Jaw needs to obtain land control of all possible affected properties in accordance with federal law. To get land control, the city needs approval of 100 per cent of the 20 residents upstream of the dam site to sign off land control to their properties.

But after a meeting Wednesday night between the city engineering department and the landowners, shoreline resident Rick Klein said the city doesn’t want to give residents any say in how the dam operates.

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