Community Infrastructure

Housing

 

SRFN Community Infrastructure and Housing Department is overseen by Community Infrastructure and Housing Manager and is responsible for the process of planning, organizing, monitoring, and evaluating human and financial resources in order to achieve the programs goals and objectives in the most effective and efficient manner in the housing program and infrastructure services that include water, roads, fire department, sanitation, and band buildings.

 

Our Team

 

Community Housing & Infrastructure Manager (CHIM) – Michelle Pelletier

Housing Coordinator – Mike Meawasige

Housing Technician – Gerald Southwind / Joshua Urquhart

 

 

Infrastructure

 

The community’s infrastructure team is responsible for the maintenance of community buildings, roads, garbage pickup, community beautification and much more.

The infrastructure team works hard in the community to fix any issues that may arise.

 

Our Team

 

Infrastructure Coordinator – John Owl

Infrastructure Administration – Patricia Squires

Roads & Sanitation – Marvin McLeod

Fire Chief – Percy Owl

Custodian – Barry Jacobs

 

 

Water Treatment Plant

 

Serpent River First Nation recently upgraded its communal groundwater supply system by establishing a new surface water supply system and associated infrastructure. The new water system was required because the water in the wells that had supplied drinking water in the past no longer had the required capacity and some of the wells had water quality concerns.

 

Serpent River First Nation Water Treatment process is a tubular nanofiltration membrane system with polymer based membranes. This system was selected because it was found to be most effective in removing Natural Organic Matter (NOM) and thereby reducing the levels of THMs and other disinfection byproducts in the treated water.

 

The new water treatment system has been proven to be very effective in treating the water from Aird Bay and the treated water quality has been excellent with the new polymer based membranes.

 

Type of membrane is now incompatible with chlorine and one of the measures previously installed at the Plant for zebra mussel control involves chlorination at the plant raw water intake which is upstream of the membranes.  Additional measures are therefore currently needed to ensure that chlorine does not impact the membranes at the plant.

 

Our Team

 

Water Treatment Plant Operator – Chad Commanda

 

 

Lands & Resources

 

SRFN Community Lands Department is overseen by Community Lands Manager and is responsible for the process of planning, organizing, monitoring, and evaluating human and financial resources in order to achieve the programs goals and objectives in the most effective and efficient manner pertaining to lands, resources, and environment.

 

Our Team

 

Lands Manager – Sonya Cloutier