Rehabilitation work will begin in September on a segment of the M1 Canal, which is the main irrigation supply line from Saskatchewan’s Lake Diefenbaker.
The province announced today it will spend nearly $5 million to rehabilitate part of the 22.5-kilometre canal built in the 1960s.
About 1.3 km of the canal will be enlarged and relined. Two concrete check structures will also be retrofitted.
The work will be completed next July.
Since 2010, the province has been allocating money to fix the almost 50-year-old canal, which runs from the lake to Broderick Reservoir near Outlook and provides water for 37,000 irrigated acres.
The canal also supplies water for the Saskatoon South East Water Supply system for another 18,000 irrigated acres, five reservoirs, towns and villages, three potash mines, 13 wetlands projects and Blackstrap Provincial Park.
