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History of Pleasant Valley Local Area Service
The Pleasant Valley Local Area Service shown here on the map within the enclosed dark green line is located along Pleasant Valley Road, extending from the Armstrong Spallumcheen border south to Pleasant Valley Cross Road. The Pleasant Valley Water System receives bulk water from the City of Armstrong and the Township of Spallumcheen supplies users domestic water only to approximately 27 properties.
The Pleasant Valley Waterworks District dissolved to the Township on June 2, 1995. The original Letters Patent creating the district were issued by the Province on September 2, 1932 and can be viewed here: Original Letters Patent.
On June 1, 1995, the Provincial Government issued an Order in Council granting dissolution of the water district to the Township of Spallumcheen. That Order can be viewed here: Order in Council for Dissolution.
The Township of Spallumcheen passed the Township of Spallumcheen Pleasant Valley Water Utility Specified Area Establishment Bylaw No. 1340, 1994 on March 13, 1995.
The Pleasant Valley Local Area Service is operated according to the following bylaws:
Asset Management can be defined as:
Asset management is an integrated approach, involving all organization departments, to effectively manage existing and new assets to deliver services to customers. The intent is to maximize benefits, reduce risks and provide satisfactory levels of service to the community in a sustainable manner – providing an optimum balance. Good asset management practices are fundamental to achieving sustainable communities.
Essentially, asset management provides communities with the opportunity to do more with less, by providing a structured way of tracking performance, costs and risks to meet service objectives in the most efficient and effective manner.
For the Pleasant Valley Local Area Service, this started with an Engineering Review on the existing status of the system. This review was completed by Gentech Engineering Inc on June 23, 2016. A copy of the engineering report for Pleasant Valley is available here.