Publications
Publications
Strategic Plans and Reports
Strategic plans document our direction, goals and expectations of ourselves set through our strategic planning process.
Drinking Water and Wastewater Management
Water Use
Watershed Report
Water Management
Water Demand Study
Saskatchewan is a growing province with our population now reaching the highest level it’s ever been as more people live, work and play here.
As this growth takes place it also increases the demands on our water supply. The Water Security Agency is proactively looking at what those demands might be now and into the future. The study was undertaken by Dr. Suren Kulshreshtha from the University of Saskatchewan, Department of Department of Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics. This activity is an important component of the work that is underway in the Water Availability Study.
The objective of the Water Demand Study was to assess our current and future water demands in various economic sectors and by major drainage basins in Saskatchewan.
Eleven river basins were included in the study. More detailed investigations were completed for the Qu’Appelle River, South Saskatchewan River and North Saskatchewan River basins.
This study investigates the water demand side of integrated water management. It was undertaken to estimate current (2010) water demand levels and forecast them for various Saskatchewan River basins by types of sectors for three future periods – Year 2020, 2040, and 2060.
South Saskatchewan Water Demand Study
Flood Damage Reduction
This report reviews the successes, shortcomings and cost-benefits analysis of the Emergency Flood Damage Reduction Program (EFRDP).
Land Acquisition
Qu’Appelle Nutrient Mass Balance
The Qu’Appelle Nutrient Mass Balance Report examines the concentration and load (total amount over time) of nutrients entering, being retained and leaving the Qu’Appelle River and tributaries within the watershed.
Ecology
Ecosystem Health Assessment Manual 2012
The Ecosystem Health Assessment Manual was originally prepared by the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority, now known as the Water Security Agency.
Lake Sturgeon are considered living fossils, relatively unchanged since the Devonian Period, about 400 million years ago. Throughout North America, they are believed to be at an historically low population. Operation of two large dams on the Saskatchewan River System (Gardiner Dam and E.B. Campbell) is suspected to contribute to habitat degradation resulting from flow management and fragmentation. As the owner and operator of Gardiner Dam, the Water Security Agency completed a three year study examining the potential impact of Gardiner Dam’s operation on the Lake Sturgeon population in the downstream rivers.
Engineering
Geotechnical Assessment of the Alameda Dam
The Water Security Agency owns Grant Devine Dam (known as Alameda Dam until 2017), a 42 metre high and 1250 metre long earth dam in souteastern Saskatchewan. In the spring of 2011 the reservoir was surcharged above its full supply level in order to decrease downstream flood flows resulting from high runoff. Concerns regarding the stability of the dam were raised when the displacements in the clay shale increased during reservoir surcharging. In response to the concerns, the Water Security Agency expedited a comprehensive stability evaluation. This paper describes the assessment methodology, and presents the main results and conclusions of the stability evaluation. The paper was published in the Canadian Dam Association Bulletin, Spring 2015, Vol. 26 No. 2, and received the 2015 Published Paper Award of Excellence from the Canadian Dam Association.
A Reliable Team
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