drainage projects

The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency is expanding support for rural landowners, communities and local governments with their channel clearing and drainage projects. Up to $1-million in rebates are available for individual landowners, rural and small urban municipalities (population under 5-thousand), conservation and development area authorities (C&Ds) and watershed associations. WSA Spokesperson Sean Osmar noted eligibility […]

Lane Mountney spreads a map over his kitchen table at his farmhouse in southeast Saskatchewan, pointing to yellow and orange arrows slithering across the document. Many of the arrows represent existing channels and ditches, moving across fields and out of wetlands to drain water. The arrows eventually make their way to a creek, causing what […]