2026 - 2030 Surrey Financial Plan

SEWER

EDUCATION & CULTURE

• Develop information around inflow and infiltration awareness in Surrey, and around private sewer connection ownership and maintenance; and •

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.

ECOSYSTEMS

• Continue sewer rehabilitation, smoke testing, manhole inspections 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.

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 I&I management strategy with 5-year action plan; • Expand the use of relining to rehabilitate aging pipes and provide cost effective approaches to lengthen the life of the City sewer system; • Design a new trunk sewer for 168th Street corridor to the North Surrey Interceptor; •

• Conduct a review of pump station conditions and infrastructure needs; • Replace aging Elgin sanitary pump station with a new pressure sewer; • Construct the Darts Hill Siphon to support new growth areas; • Construct the 84th Ave trunk sewer to alleviate capacity constraints and support growth in the Newton area; • Develop CCTV manhole inspection system; • Continue to collaborate with Metro Vancouver on the twinning of the North Surrey Interceptor; and • Upgrade the Quibble Creek Pump Station.

City of Surrey | 2026—2030 Financial Plan | Utilities Operating Fund | Sewer

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