When the Town of Shaunavon passed the Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget back in March of this year there was money included for installing UV Filtration Systems to help in decreasing the amount of chlorine that is required to disinfect the town's water.

Tara Fritz is the Chief Administrative Officer for the Town of Shaunavon. She says, "At the time that we passed the Budget, the Town of Shaunavon had included a 1.19 million dollar installation of UV Filtration Systems in to water wells. Council has since decided to install the UV Filtration System only into Well Number Five this year."

Well Number Five was chosen this year based on the higher hardness in that well's water.

Fritz says the lessons learned from that installation may result in a better design and lower installation costs for the other units, which will be budgeted for in the 2019 Consolidated Budget.