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By Jesse Gill

PROVINCIAL FUNDING

Southeast Alberta to see almost $14.7M in funding for road, bridge and water projects

Aug 15, 2025 | 8:26 AM

Several road, water and airport projects in southeast Alberta will see funding from the provincial government totaling almost $14.7 million.

Alberta minister of transportation and economic corridors Devin Dreeshen held a roundtable with reporters on Thursday to speak about the government initiative Building stronger communities across rural Alberta.

Across the province $114.6 million will support 86 projects under the Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program (STIP), the Alberta Municipal Water/Wastewater and Water for Life programs.

The STIP projects for local bridge programs with benefit three southeast Alberta municipalities with 75 per cent of each project covered by provincial grants.

In Cypress County two culvert replacements projects will see provincial grants totalling $703,500.

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The County of Newell County has two culvert replacement project with $767,850 of provincial funding.

A culvert replacement project in the MD of Taber will also have $217,417.50 of the cost covered by the grant.

A little outside of the southeast Alberta region, 190 km north of Medicine Hat, the STIP local municipality initiative will support the Town of Oyen in the central zone. Half the cost of the town’s airport widening and runway expansion will be covered through $3.13 million in grant funding.

The STIP resource road program will provide $2.628 million to cover half of the cost of the Range Road 150 reconstruction in the County of Newell.

The community airport program through STIP will also fund 75 per cent of the cost of the Brooks Airport runway light upgrade for the City of Brooks. Total grant funding for that project is $339,328.56.

Alberta Municipal Water/Wastewater Partnership funding includes funding for Cypress County and the City of Brooks.

Cypress County will have over $1.143 million in funding for its Seven Persons sewer force main replacement covering 75 per cent of the cost.

The City of Brooks will see just over 29 per cent of its two projects covered.

The first is $467,040 of grant funding for the design engineering of the membrane bioreactor wastewater treatment plant.

The second is over $8.4 million in provincial money for the $28.9 million membrane bioreactor wastewater treatment plant.

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READ: Provincial funding announced for Brooks water treatment facility and Newell County Range Road

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No southern Alberta projects were included in the Water for Life funding from the province.

The full list of projects funded under STIP can be found here, the Alberta Municipal Water/Wastewater list here, and Water for Life projects can be viewed here.

– With files from Curtis Galbraith