Carrot River Valley MLA Fred Bradshaw (centre) shakes hands with Tisdale Mayor Al Jellicoe. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)

By Aaron Schulze

Tisdale Regional Landfill Expansion

Tisdale receives grant from provincial government for regional landfill

Sep 23, 2019 | 4:54 PM

Key funding towards a multimillion dollar project was officially presented to the Town of Tisdale.

Carrot River Valley MLA Fred Bradshaw gave a $1.7 million grant on behalf of the provincial government to Tisdale Mayor Al Jellicoe and Chief Administrative Officer Brad Hvidston for the town’s regional landfill expansion on Monday, Sept. 23.

Tisdale and its regional landfill is one of 12 recipients of funding from the Canadian and Saskatchewan governments under the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program. The feds are providing around $2.1 million and the Town of Tisdale will spend nearly $1.4 million to split the near $5.3 million project three ways.

“It’s an example of how all three governments can work together to get some of these initiatives done,” Bradshaw said. “I give credit to the Tisdale people for applying early, because there are a lot of other people that want to get in on this.”

The Regional Landfill Expansion will include a new landfill cell and leachate pond to control some of the water runoff, a new compost area, and the equipment needed to keep them running.

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Hvidston said the town is thrilled the federal and provincial government approved the grants.

“It’s a huge project for the town,” Hvidston said. “Not only on an immediate basis as far as giving us funding for a landfill expansion, but on an ongoing basis because it’s going to allow for composting at our landfill.”

“We can take all those composting materials out of the landfill, which is part of that green initiative.”

Mayor Jellicoe said Tisdale’s future regional landfill will also assist surrounding communities such as Carrot River and Zenon Park.

Hvidston said there won’t be any ground work on the Regional Landfill Expansion this year, as the town will first hire its engineers and contractors. He expects the project to be completed by summer 2020.

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