volume 1 - Halifax Regional Municipality

Halifax Water Integrated Resource Plan
Appendices
The purpose of this appendix is to present details of selected Halifax Water’s current
proposed programs and projects developed internally or through the IRP. The appendix
is intended as a supplement to Volume 1 as it provides additional information to the
body of the main report.
All costs are either $2012 or 30-year NPV as noted. Additional details of all expenditures
are presented in Volume 1 Appendix H, Recommended Plan Financial Model.
1. CURRENT PROGRAMS
1.1 ENTERPRISE PROGRAMS
1.1.1 Asset Renewal Management Program
Halifax Water delivers annual planned and reactive maintenance programs to provide a
sustainable delivery of core services, which achieves an economical balance between
maintenance and capital programs. This program rehabilitates or replaces aging
infrastructure is vital to maintaining LOS.
In the recent past Halifax Water recognized its need to enhance its asset management
capacities. It initiated the Asset Management Assessment (AMA) 1 which was completed
in 2011. The AMA program document recommended 22 initiatives to be implemented
over five years (2012 – 2016) to further improve Halifax Water’s asset management
systems and capacities.
The AMA has a proposed budget allocation for 2012 -2016 in the Five-Year Capital Plan
of $5.25 million ($2012).
1.1.2 Climate Change Program
HRM has partnered with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), Natural
Resources Canada (NRC), Environment Canada (EC) and the Province of Nova Scotia to
develop an approach that could be implemented to reduce HRM’s contribution to
greenhouse gases and manage the impacts of climate change. The result of this initiative
was Climate SMART 2 (Sustainable Mitigation and Adaption Risk Toolkit) with the overall
objective of mainstreaming climate change into municipal decision-making.
As a public-private initiative, Climate SMART addresses mitigation and adaptation
opportunities from a cost-benefit perspective, with special consideration given to the
long-term sustainability of the measures to be implemented. The plan encompasses all
of HRM's corporate and community assets and activities, and includes a series of tools
that are used to incorporate climate change information into its municipal decision-
1 Asset Management Assessment, Halifax Water, June 2011
2 HRM Climate SMART Community Action Guide to Climate Change and Emergency
Preparedness, Halifax Regional Municipality, September 2006
Revision: 2012-10-29 Integrated Resource Plan –Appendices F-1
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