volume 1 - Halifax Regional Municipality

Halifax Water Integrated Resource Plan
Integrated Resource Planning
Halifax Water has a talented and highly professional staff with demonstrated capacity to
adapt to changing circumstances. An adaptive management approach will certainly be
needed as changing regulations, growth estimates and new information about asset
condition and performance is considered. The recommended IRP should therefore be
considered the first step in an on-going and evolving process of continuous
improvement.
The IRP represents an important component of Halifax Water’s financial planning. It
feeds into subsequent studies that examine debt requirements to meet capital
programs and into utility ratemaking. It was not designed to undertake the analysis of
debt or rates within the IRP project activities. Rather the focus of the IRP preparation
was as follows:
• Capital and additional O&M costs to meet the program and project requirements of
the Recommended IRP for the 30-year planning period from 2013 to 2043
• Development of an overall planning framework integrating the IRP into Halifax
Water’s business processes
• Identification of institutional constraints required to implement the Recommended
IRP
• Recommendations for additions and refinements of Halifax water’s Levels of Service
(LOS) to facilitate the measurement of program success.
The IRP is presented in three volumes as follows:
• Volume 1 – Halifax Water Integrated Resource Plan, 2013-2043
• Volume 2 – Stakeholder Consultation Record
• Volume 3 – Technical Appendices
Volume 1 is as follows:
• Executive Summary
• Section 1 – Overview of the IRP process and the contents of the IRP Report
• Section 2 – Technical conferences and consultation summary
• Section 3 – IRP planning context including institutional context, existing
infrastructure and definition of existing levels of service
• Section 4 – IRP Drivers including growth, asset renewal and regulatory compliance
• Section 5 – IRP alternative resource plan formulation and evaluation including,
development of IRP objectives, an overview of current and proposed programs and
projects and selection of the Recommended IRP
• Section 6 – Recommended IRP presenting details of the plan and examining the
sensitivity of the plan to demand reduction and growth assumptions
Revision: 2012-10-29 Integrated Resource Plan 3
October 31 2012 Page 36 of 272