Public engagement is important to the City of Selkirk which is why communication with citizens, property and business owners over the coming weeks to provide feedback on the reconstruction of Eveline Street between Eaton Avenue and Queen Avenue is happening now. Mayor Larry Johannson says that this will be a major infrastructure renewal project in…
Since 1977 the land-use planning and building permitting in the City of Selkirk has been under the administration of the Red River Planning District (RRPD). Over the past decade, the city has found this structure no longer meets the expectations of council or the needs of local citizens, businesses and developers. A recently completed study…
Pictured: Headworks area where the wastewater enters the plant Among the many positives that Selkirk’s new wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) brings to the city is that it was built smart and the city held strong to the belief that bigger isn’t necessarily better. The $30-plus million plant is state-of-the-art and will treat effluent to a…
To build great things, you have to start from the ground up. But to build toward a more climate resilient city, the construction is starting below the ground. The city will be separating the combined sewers, a critical objective of the city’s award-winning Climate Change Adaption Strategy (CCAS), down Sophia Street between Centennial and Selkirk…
When the City of Selkirk broke ground for its new wastewater treatment plant in 2018, council of the day was certain of a couple things – first, it was making a decision that would impact citizens, and the environment, for decades to come, and second, they had better get it right. We’re only a little…