Council for the City of Morden has approved a motion to commit $8.13 million into a Water Resource Recovery Facility. This is a third of the cost of the overall projected $24.4 million regional waste water treatment facility.

"It's a regional project for the handling of sewage and waste water. The Morden one will be a water recovery facility, said Morden Mayor Ken Wiebe. "The objective is to have the water coming out of that plant, to be of a good quality. It won't be potable water, but it is water that we can use for a variety of purposes like irrigation and that sort of thing. We are just doing the paper work to get there."

Wiebe stated everything costs money and felt Morden's third of the cost was a reasonable amount for this type of facility.

Morden, alongside the cities of Winkler and RM of Stanley, has been working on this project for over the past five years. The main treatment plant will be built in Winkler and would eventually tie into Schanzenfeld and Reinfeld. Meanwhile, Morden will have a decentralized facility.

The regional project will help treat all three communities waste water for a number of years to come. Wiebe explained with the decentralized facility, which would be built in Morden would allow the City to eliminate the use of its lagoon.

"Lagoons have odour issues and the facilities we are building will eliminate that. There should be absolutely minimal to zero odour with these new facilities," added Wiebe.

With all three municipalities working together on this project there will be roughly 30,000 people using the new facility. According to Wiebe, the Waste Resource Recovery Facility will be able to serve around 25,000 people, which means Morden can grow around about another 15,000 people before the facility is at its maximum.