City of Winnipeg Growth Czar Michael Pyl summarized the 2025 Complete Communities Land Monitoring Report to the Standing Policy Committee on Property and Development yesterday afternoon. The report was received as information and passed on to City Council.
No decisions were made yesterday on future Precinct K development. Unknown to most of us, Precinct K, as small as it is compared to the greenfield lands abutting the proposed Chief Peguis Trail extension to the north, has too many proposed toilets.
“Based on planning level information, the South End Sewage Treatment Plant (SEWPCC) is expected to reach capacity in the early 2030s. WWD will be reviewing remaining available capacity beginning in 2026, including identifying any constraints to development and options to mitigate those constraints.”
According to Michael Pyl this WWD report was authorized in December. It should take 2 years to complete. Yet Landmark and Qualico have stated that they want to bring their Precinct K housing development plans to the City this spring/summer. What is up?
Michael Pyl gave the committee a sneak preview of the sewage report’s findings. While the subject treatment plant has only recently been upgraded to 2013 standards, it is not a major task to bring it up to 2030 standards. Any South End fix should cost only the City tens of millions, not hundreds of millions of dollars. (We have heard that before.) In the worst-case scenario a new clarifier cell may be necessary. “A clarifier is essentially a sedimentation tank designed to allow solid particles to settle out of water under the influence of gravity.”
The big sewer pipe connecting Precinct K to Dakota Street and to the sewage treatment plant on the Perimeter Highway has already been installed in the Warde Avenue right-of-way, below the Seine River and beneath the South St. Vital Trail in Dakota Crossing. It is only a matter of hooking up the Precinct K Qualico Lands to the big pipe. Dealing with the problem of connecting pipe through the Sampson Lands due south of Warde Avenue, lands for sale which mysteriously disappeared from the MLS system last month, is for them to figure out.
Qualico does not seem to be worried. Precinct K South is still a go.
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