2025-2029 Surrey Financial Plan

UTILITY OVERVIEW SEWER

MISSION STATEMENT To provide engineering services for the City’s sanitary sewer system to support the building of a healthy, sustainable community. KEY PROGRAMS AND SERVICES The Sewer Utility’s primary responsibility, in partnership with the Operations Division and Metro Vancouver, is to collect and convey liquid waste to the Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment Plant for treatment. The Sewer Utility provides safe conveyance of wastewater for properties and over 600,000 residents through more than 1,600 km of sewer mains and 50 pump stations and other facilities. The Sewer Utility serves all the residents, businesses, and visitors to Surrey, providing sewer collection to homes, industry and our civic parks and facilities. This is achieved while planning to accommodate growth in the City and to continually improve service in areas with aging infrastructure. In addition, the Sewer Utility strives to be stewards of the environment by advancing regional and provincial goals in the region’s Waste Resource Management Plan. This work includes long range planning, medium range capital growth, financial planning, facilitation of new construction, management of inflow and infiltration, and other source controls. The rates charged by the Greater Vancouver Sewerage & Drainage District (“GVS&DD”) for sewer are projected to increase significantly over the next 10 years, with the replacement of three of the regions five wastewater treatment plants, growth needed for regional trunk sewers and replacement of aging and deteriorating assets, as shown in the chart below. Given the regional cost of transporting and treating sewage is about 65-70% of Surrey total sewer utility costs, metered and flat rates are expected to track closely with the GVS&DD increases.

Source: City of Surrey Finance Department

City of Surrey | 2025—2029 Financial Plan | Utilities Operating Fund | Sewer

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