volume 1 - Halifax Regional Municipality

Halifax Water Integrated Resource Plan
IRP Planning Context and Levels of Service
3.5 FIVE-YEAR BUSINESS PLAN AND CAPITAL BUDGET
Halifax Water prepared a Five-Year Business Plan 19 in December of 2011. This plan was
developed to support the December 2011 rate application for the urban core/satellite
systems, a January 2012 rate application for the Airport/Aerotech system, and to
provide a comprehensive financial plan for Halifax Water. From the perspective of the
IRP, the Five-Year Business Plan contains the Five-Year Capital Plan, which defines the
specific projects and programs prepared by Halifax Water and accepted (first year) by
the NSUARB. These projects and programs were incorporated in the alternative IRP
resource plans. The projects and programs included in the Five-Year Capital Plan address
the full range of IRP drivers and were accordingly allocated to the appropriate IRP
objectives described in Section 5.
Since the FY 2012 -2013 was already underway during the preparation of the IRP, only
the final four years were included at a value of approximately $200 million. The
individual projects were programmed into the IRP with the same timing as in the
original Five-Year Capital Budget.
Projects, which in many cases were continuations of programs and projects initiated in
the Five-Year Capital Plan, were allocated as appropriate to 2018 and beyond. This
included about $410 million in additional projects which were further refined through
the IRP as to both capital requirement and timing. These projects should be reviewed as
part of translating the IRP into the next Five-Year Capital Plan.
Table 3.9 summarizes the capital budget for years 2013-2017. The details of the projects
and programs for the Five-Year Capital Plan are presented in Volume 1 Appendix B. The
long-term capital projects outside the Five-Year Capital Plan were also incorporated into
the IRP following review and refinement.
Table 3.9
Halifax Water 2013 – 2017 Capital Plan
Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y2 –Y5 Sub-
Total
2013 -2014 2014-2015 2015 -2016 2016 -2017 2013-2017
Stormwater Sub-Total $2.2 $2.8 $2.4 $3.8 $11.2
Wastewater Sub-Total $75.6 $32.9 $14.5 $15.1 $138.1
Water Sub-Total $12.9 $14.0 $13.1 $11.3 $51.3
Totals $90.7 $49.7 $30.0 $30.2 $200.6
19 Halifax Water Five-Year Business Plan 2012-2013 to 2016-2017, Halifax Water,
December 2011
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