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Partnership Organizations
The Town of Diamond Valley partners with its neighbours on projects from time to time. Several of these opportunities to share services have evolved into much more formal commitments than those involved in normal day-to-day operational sharings. These partnerships are set out here for your information.
Sheep River Regional Utility Corporation (SRRUC) is a partnership between the Town of Diamond Valley, Foothills County and the Village of Longview. SRRUC has been operating since 2016 and was created to replace the Quad Regional Water Partnership (QRWP). The municipally-owned utility corporation operates the supply, treatment, and transmission of wholesale potable water to its customers - member municipalities.
For more information related to SRRUC, please visit srruc.ca.
Member municipalities are responsible for distributing potable water to their customers, this includes water delivery, metering, and billing for water services. SRRUC does not set utility rates for member municipalities. For more information on your water utility bill, please refer to Water and Wastewater Utility Bylaw page.
The Westend Regional Sewage Services Commission was established in 1994 by Regulation of the Government of Alberta.
The Commission was formally composed of two members each from the Town Councils of Black Diamond and Turner Valley. It is currently composed of Town of Diamond Valley Council and 2 members at large.
Regular meetings are posted to the town's Events Calendar. The Commission does not regularly meet in December, July or August although meetings may be held in any of these months if conditions warrant. The meeting agenda is released on the Thursday afternoon prior to the meeting.
The Westend facilities are composed of the Turner Valley lift station, equipment in the Black Diamond lift station, the sewage lagoons, the blower building the transfer station and the approximately 180 acres of property on which they sit in Black Diamond.
The Commission is funded through requisitions to each of the Towns. The Commission's expenses include utility costs, operator costs, maintenance and repair costs, administrative costs and reserves. The amount paid by each town is based on their respective proportion of the total annual sewage flow (January 1 to December 31).
The Commission contracts operation of its facilities through the Diamond Valley Public Works department. It contracts administrative services through an independent contractor.