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Councillor Gord Budd, Waste Water Plant Manager Tim Cox and SCCWS Chair Harold Martens presenting the Good Stewardship Award on Tuesday afternoon

 The Swift Current Creek Watershed Stewards are thanking the city for cleaning up our creek with their Good Stewardship Award.

Chairman Harold Martens credits Swift Current with taking several steps to improve the water quality.

"Building lagoons and setting up irrigation systems," Martens said. "But none of them had met the challenge that was in the waste water releases that they had until they began with the water treatment plant."

According to the SCCWS, water quality in the creek improved significantly once the city-funded waste water treatment plant started up in 2007.

"It has made it so that kids can go swimming downstream now (where) they couldn't before," Martens said. "This is a big step forward.

The SCWS intends to hand out the Good Stewardship Award annually.

The plaque presented to the city reads as follows: "Swift Current Creek Watershed Stewards presents the Good Stewardship Award to the City of Swift Current in recognition of the Waste Water Treatment Plant." It sits on a rock along the creek near 14th Avenue SE.

Click here for a video of the presentation by Harold Martens

Click here for a video of the presentation by plant manager Tim Cox

Click here for a link to the SCCWS website

Interview with Harold Martens: