Moosomin holds grand opening for new water treatment plant
September 29, 2025, 8:32 am
Nicole Taylor, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
On Thursday, the town of Moosomin held a grand opening for its new water treatment plant.
The day consisted of tours of the plant, followed by speeches, with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe attending to be part of the grand opening.
The project was jointly funded by the federal, provincial and municipal governments through the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP). The federal government contributed more than $5.4 million, with the provincial government providing over $4.5 million and the Town of Moosomin responsible for the remaining $3.6 million.
Moosomin-Montmartre MLA Kevin Weedmark was the MC for the event, and welcomed the premier and the other speakers.
“It’s a great honour for me to join with Kevin on behalf of the provincial government to come here and to celebrate this day with you, your municipal council, with the federal government, but most importantly with you the residents of Moosomin today, and to celebrate infrastructure that is greatly going to benefit your children, and grandchildren, the residents of Moosomin tomorrow,” said Moe.
“There’s infrastructure that we can all get excited about in our communities often—a new hockey rink, a new curling rink, pavement on our roads—but before you ever get to the paving stage, you need to take care of the pipes that are underneath that particular pavement, and then ultimately what is flowing through those pipes, which is safe water or clean water or waste water plants. This is the infrastructure that every community needs and every community has been looking at investing in, has invested in, or is continuing to invest in as we see our Saskatchewan communities growing.
“It’s really a true honour for us to partner in the ICIP program or the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program that we have, that allows infrastructure like this to actually become real, where you have the federal government show up with a portion of the funding, just over $5 million in this particular case. You have the provincial government show up with a portion of that funding about $4.6 million in this case, and then you have the municipality also show up with a portion of that funding, but the core initiative comes from the municipality and comes from the people that live here and so for that we are truly grateful for the opportunity to participate in this.”
“It’s great to be here to see this project come to a completion. This conversation actually started with the council in 2017 when we decided that the old water plant was past its lifetime and we need to do something looking forward into the future,” said former mayor Larry Tomlinson. “We were lucky enough to apply for the ICIP and we got it between the two governments.
“I want to thank my past council for being on board with what we did, and looking into the future, it’s going to mean a lot . . . It’s going to be great water for everyone in town, and will now supply up to approximately 5,000 people and I’m grateful to see this project come to completion.”
“It is an important day for our community and we need to celebrate,” said Mayor Murray Gray. “When you have a big win, when you do something great, you need to celebrate it. You need to make sure you take a look from 10,000 feet and that we are doing good things and we are going to continue to do good things. All of those things are done for the residents and not for ourselves. We want to make this a better place to live, play and work.
“This was an idea originally that we went to the design, then on to tendering, then two years of construction, three councils, eight years, many meetings and discussions, but today we celebrate all the hard work and all the effort to officially open our new plant.
“Simply, this new plant makes great water and will make great water into the future for many years to come and allow us to grow.”
“I’d like to thank the town of Moosomin and the council for the wonderful opportunity to work on this project from the conceptual design through to this grand opening,” said engineer David Germin with KGS. “This is actually my first project that bridged a municipal election and saw two sets of town councils, something that I thought was going to be a challenge, but instead turned out to be a very smooth transition. Both past and present councils were a pleasure to work with and they showed true passion and engagement during this vital project.
