Officially the Water Security Agency took over control of 20 dams, including Duncairn, last spring. But the transition from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to the Saskatchewan Crown corporation is continuing.

The federal government started the dialogue of transitioning authority to the provincial level, and according to WSA Spokesperson Patrick Boyle, it'll take a while yet for the transition to be completed.

"It doesn't happen overnight for 20 dams. So it's a process and it takes time, and all that has to get worked out. We're kind of going through that right now. There's a transition period before WSA is fully operational with that structure. There'd be limited change that anyone would notice. But rather, it'd be closer managed because it'll be under provincial ownership."

For people living by Duncairn, Boyle said it's "business as usual" and that the only change will be from an administrative perspective.

The WSA is working on their own emergency-preparedness plans, but Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has continued to give communities plans should something go wrong with a dam.

"We've been working on [emergency-preparedness plans] with other structures that we have across the province, and that'll be part of bringing those structures in to our plans," said Boyle. "We recently did an emergency action plan for some dams in the southeast, which included Rafferty. So that one was a process that we're going through, and something that we're expanding to and implementing for all of our structures. So that would be included with the whole picture."