2025-2029 Surrey Financial Plan

SEWER

ECOSYSTEMS

• Continue sewer rehabilitation and cross connection investigation to reduce the inflow and infiltration; • Continue to work with Metro Vancouver to mitigate odour issues that originate from their sanitary sewer system; and

• Continue efforts to better understand sanitary sewer overflows, and work in the Surrey system and with Metro Vancouver to actively address environmentally safe sewer operation.

EDUCATION & CULTURE

Continue to work with Metro Vancouver in the development of an educational campaign about inflow & infiltration (“I&I”) and the actions residents can take to reduce inflow and infiltration;

• Support other regional source control programs with increased messaging to Surrey citizens; and • Develop information around inflow and infiltration awareness in Surrey, and around private sewer connection ownership and maintenance. • Conduct a review of pump station conditions and infrastructure needs; • Replace aging Elgin sanitary pump station with a new pressure sewer; • Develop CCTV manhole inspection system; • Upgrade the Quibble Creek Pump Station and construct new forcemains; and • Design a new trunk sewer for 168th Street corridor to the North Surrey Interceptor.

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INFRASTRUCTURE

• Utilize financial planning tools to determine a sustainable funding model to meet infrastructure replacement needs; Improve data collection and management programs to support current management issues and to ascertain appropriate timing for capital investment; • Develop an Inflow and Infiltration data management tool to provide better long-term program delivery and tracking tools; • Expand use of relining to rehabilitate asbestos cement sewers and provide cost effective approaches to lengthen the life of the City sewer system; • Review and update the Inflow and Infiltration Management Plan; •

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

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