PRINTING MADE Upload your design | Design online | FREE design templates EASY! www.grasslandsprinting.ca THE MELVILLE $1.50 PER COPY Friday, GST INCLUDED August 16, 2019 Vol. 93 No. 34 Agreement # 40011922 PROUDLY SERVING MELVILLE AND SURROUNDING AREA SINCE 1929 • WWW.GRASSLANDSNEWS.CA • 1-306-728-5448 Water treatment plant on schedule to open early 2020 By Lin Orosz Grasslands News Melville’s largest infrastructure project is slated to get “on stream” as scheduled early next year. SaskWater’s $37 million water treatment plant – the largest project undertaken in the city in decades – will start supplying Melville residents and those living beyond, says Eric Light, vice-president of oper- ations and engineering for SaskWater. The completion of the plant and its start of opera- tions is the culmination of a joint municipal-provin- cial-federal government that began construction in 2017. A 30-year agreement signed by SaskWater and the City of Melville in July 2016 called for the Crown Corporation to operate the existing water plant and construct the new water supply system. SaskWater Bourgault 6550 ST air seeder LIN OROSZ | MELVILLE ADVANCE will own and operate the new plant with one option This scale model of a Bourgault 6550 ST air seeder takes Tom Matt about 200 hours to build. His models being the city possibly assuming ownership after the can end up anywhere in Canada and the United States and as far away as Australia. agreement expires. “Whatever the provisions are in the agreement,” Light says in response to an ownership question. “Normally in our agreements, once you get to the completion of the agreement, then the parties need to decide…are they going to continue on with that Toy collector turned toy creator agreement or make some other arrangement. “Certainly that option, as far as ownership by the raising a family became his priorities, he never lost city, will be available and the city, if they wanted to By Lin Orosz that passion for farm toys. pursue that option, but we would have to have those Grasslands News “When the family was more grown up and on their discussions.” own, I went back to collecting and then I went back The wells-pipeline-plant is definitely a significant When Tom Matt accompanied his dad to the Le- into building. This time, when I started building, it project, says Light, adding the overall project in- stock Massey-Ferguson dealership where the elder was a new adventure for me. I wanted to build things volves supply wells and well-control building as well Matt bought his first new tractor, Tom probably would I couldn’t buy.” as a 30-kilometre pipeline from those wells to the have never envisioned where that might lead. What Matt couldn’t buy was equipment built to water treatment plant. Now, decades later, the passion for farm equipment one-sixteenth scale, such that it would match the scale “We’re getting to the stage where the work is just that was sparked by the dealer giving him a toy trac- that many toy tractors were built to. Air seeders, com- about completed. We’re about a month behind our tor still burns intensely and it’s expressed through his bines and swathers were among the machinery that schedule but we have some contingency in our sched- building of his own farm machinery, scaled down to fascinated Matt and that he’s built since taking up the ule that we’re utilizing. We’re going to start commis- one-sixteenth of the size of originals. pursuit after some years away from it. sioning of the new water treatment plan in October. The Lemberg resident is one of an elite group of “I started again about 1997. That was when I built “The schedule is to have that completed by De- craftsmen – “scratch builders” as they’re known be- my little 1680 International combine. Then I built an cember and as per the original schedule was to have cause they, in essence, create all the parts that go into International swather after that. And then I said ‘I got the commissioning done by December and then the their models from scratch. And it’s that dedication, to have a bigger challenge’ so I started with drills.” schedule is for the new water treatment plant to that attention to detail and precision, that’s resulted begin operations early in 2020…,” says Light. in his pieces gracing homes on the other side of the Those drills – based on the Bourgault 6550 ST air Construction started with some preliminary work world including Australia and South Africa. seeder – were intricate works of art. Nearly every in 2016 while the majority of the pipeline work was “Ever since I was a kid I loved farm toys,” Matt told piece of the hundreds that go into each model is made undertaken in 2017 to bring in water from wells the Advance. “I grew up on the farm (near Kelliher) in Matt’s workshop. When he knows he’s going to south of Melville. While Melville has a large supply and I got my first toy at the dealership where my fa- build a number of a model such as in the case of this of water nearby – and uses that water in its current ther bought his first new tractor. The dealer gave me air seeder, he’ll set his jigs and turn out all of a certain water treatment plan – Light says the piping in water my first toy tractor and after that I was hooked.” piece that he requires, then move on to the next piece from a more distant source was determined to be the As a youngster, he’d build his own implements to and make multiples. 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