The Town of Niverville will be running a study to determine whether or not their current town water source is in most efficient location.

Mayor Myron Dyck says the town is currently pulling water from an aquifer with an adequate supply, but there may be a more efficient way to deliver the service.

“When we have to turn up the dial to be able to produce more it puts more sediment into the filtration of the reverse osmosis process. These are micro things 1/100 the size of a follicle of hair, but when we have to turn it up so that we can deliver that volume of water to the community we get this sediment. To clean these filters or to replace these filters is quite costly.”

Dyck says they already have some information from hydrologists about the aquifer, but they are looking to see if another location would be cheaper.

“In order to do that we need to do a study with the Manitoba Water Services Board. In order to have delivery of water it requires receiving a license from the province of Manitoba, and you don't get a license without such a study to be done. All we are trying to find out right now is, what we have is good, is there better, and what is best? This study is going to tell us that.”

Dyck says this study is a step in creating a master plan for the future of water service in Niverville. He notes the cost of the project will be split 50/50 with the province of Manitoba.

“The cost of the study is just over $800,000 so we are looking at just over $400,000 being our share to do this study. We believe that it is money well spent in that there could very well be a better way of delivering water to the community. We want to make sure that we have done our due diligence.”