Our History

2004
  •  Original organization and board
  • Started off strong with both member sign-up and board energy
  • Energy ran low and project stalled
  • Funds returned to “members” in 2006
  • Organization re-created and incorporated as Intervalley Water Inc.
  • New Board of Directors led by Ian Findlay
  • Thousands of volunteer man hours
  • Door to door canvassing for members
  • Member sign-ups, engineering estimates and budgeting
2006
2007
  • Continued Canvassing and collection of deposits ($500.00)
  • Application for government grants - $ 0.00 Received
  • Continued budgeting, final estimation of individual standard household curbstop price of $ 13,800.00
  • Permit To Construct received from the Ministry of the Environment 16th June, 2007 to serve approximately 265 customers
  • Engineering design and tendering of construction for main lines in process
  • Main lines buried
  • Subscriber invoices sent out as curbstops were installed.
  • Permit to Construct 3 Pump houses 28 Oct 2008
  • Ron Lafreniere hired for both office and pump house related duties
2008
2009
  • Permit to Operate a Waterworks 5 Jan, 2009
  • Water flowing to subscribers
  • March AGM
  • Financial Statement reported no issues
  • June - special Meeting Called
  • Cash Call approx. $900,000 ($ 3,000 per curbstop)
  • Pump houses way over budget
  • IWI waiting on “Equivalent to RM” status to obtain GST refund
  • Board members were meeting weekly to manage operations
2010
2011
  • Board change in focus from start up to operational
  • Need to simply “get our house in order”
  • # 1 Goal – A “Cash Call” should never happen again
  • Increase in monthly service fees and water rates
  • Focus on past due collections
  • Board meetings back to monthly
  • Switch of Banks to Affinity Credit Union
2013
2015
  • Affinity Credit Union – Loan Payout!
  • IWI Debt Free
  • Financial surplus
  • Financial Surplus
2016
2017
  • Very strong financial surplus
  • Very strong financial surplus
2018
2019
  • Very strong financial surplus
  • Out of Water Allocation on South SaskWater Connection
  • Continued Surplus
  • IWI starting to absorb water rate increases
2020
2021
  • Continued Surplus
  • IWI continuing to absorb water rate increases
  • Continued Surplus
  • IWI starting to absorb water rate increases
2022
2023
  • Continued Surplus
  • IWI continuing to absorb partial water rate increases
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Mon - Thurs: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Fri: 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

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