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History of Silver Star Local Area Service
The Silver Star Local Area Service shown here on the map within the enclosed dark green line is located west off of Highway 97 extending from McLeod Road north to Mountainview Road. The Silver Star Local Area Service receives bulk water from the City of Armstrong and the Township of Spallumcheen supplies users domestic water only to approximately 161 properties.
The Silver Star Waterworks District dissolved to the Township on January 1, 2021. The original Letters Patent creating the district were issued by the Province on August 13, 1947 and can be viewed here: Original Letters Patent.
On December 14, 2020, 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 Silver Star Waterworks Local Area Service Establishment Bylaw No. 2042, 2021 on March 15, 2021.
The Silver Star 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 Silver Star Local Area Service this started with an Engineering Review on the existing status of the system completed by Kerr Wood Leidal in October 2016. A copy of the report can be found here.