How do Estevan’s trash and recycle carts measure up? About three to one, according to a report from Green For Life Environmental to Estevan city council.
That’s on the basis of weight, as determined by the number of carts picked up and the total weight, measured at the scales.
For June 2019, there were 13,607 trash carts picked up, weighing 289,360 kilograms. This result was an average weight per cart of 21.27 kilograms.
There were 4,088 recycle carts picked up, totalling 29,850 kilograms. That resulted in an average weight per cart of 7.3 kilograms.
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Estevan Girls Softball and Mr. Mikes Steakhouse applied for a city event permit for Aug. 23-25.
The permit is for the Second Annual Mr. Mikes Slo-Pitch Classic, to be held at the softball diamonds in Pleasantdale.
There will be a kid zone with bouncy castles, games and a spray park area, multiple hot food trucks with picnic tables set up, The Scoop canteen will be selling cold drinks, ice cream and other concession items and in the evening there will be live entertainment on Friday and Saturday evenings from 7:00 - 11:00 Featuring Chris Henderson on Saturday.
The event will run from 5:00-11:00 on Friday, Aug. 23, 9:00-11:00 on Saturday, Aug. 24 and 10:00 - 6:00 on Sunday, Aug. 25.
The permit application included a request to allow the usage of Diamond 2 as a beer gardens from 5:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. on Friday, 11:00 a.m. -11:00 p.m. on Saturday and 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. on the Sunday.
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Four building permits were issued in Estevan for the month of June. That’s down from six for June 2018.
There was one single family permit valued at $350,000, bringing the year to date value of permits to $470,000 across two permits, including this new one.
Three miscellaneous permits valued at a total of $10,300 combined brought the year’s total to $785,300, for a total of 16 permits over 2019 so far.
For 2019 so far, it’s been a blank slate for multifamily, commercial, industrial and institutional permits, which is a mirror of last year in those categories.
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Tyro Tree Services applied for a development permit. The purpose is to accommodate an existing business that was recently relocated from a residential area to a full commercial lot at 937 Eva Street. The business amounts to the parking of vehicles on the subject property. All work is performed off-site. The property is currently zoned to a commercial zoning district and has direct access to Souris Avenue. As a discretionary use, the proposal was referred to adjoining landowners and to date no objections have been received. The proposal does not conflict with current zoning bylaws, and the administration recommended council approve the application.
Council approved the permit.
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The monthly report from the city’s water and waterwater manager, Shane Buscis, showed a clean bill of health across the board, with no failures to meet regulations reported for the moth of July 2019 with the exception of Trihalomethanes, which was noted as out of compliance.
The city treated 226,766,600 liters of water and pumped 192,511,470 liters into the distribution system for the month. There were no plant upsets and all regulated parameters where below government regulations except Trihalomethanes.
The city is also addressing in the new construction of a raw water line, according to Buscis.
Regular reporting of water quality was a recommendation from inquiry that stemmed from the 2001 North Battleford water crisis.
