volume 1 - Halifax Regional Municipality

Halifax Water Integrated Resource Plan
Integrated Resource Planning
Integrated Resource
Planning
Section 1
Stakeholder Outreach
Section 2
IRP Planning Context
and Levels of Service
Section 3
IRP Drivers
Section 4
Alternative Resource
Plan Formulation
and Evaluation
Section 5
Recommended IRP
Section 6
NSUARB Compliance
Section 8
IRP
Implementation Plan
Section 7
Figure 1.1
Overview of IRP Development Process
The IRP was developed collaboratively with the NSUARB consultants led by the Tellus
Institute. The Tellus Team Statement with regard to the IRP is presented in Appendix I.
The IRP development process considerably benefitted from the engagement with a wide
range of stakeholders on five occasions in Technical Conferences and through numerous
one‐on‐one interactions.
The IRP is a high level plan prepared under considerable time constraint. Plan
development strove for completeness. Where data or other information was not
available, the best professional judgment of the study team was employed. This
resulted in a number of assumptions, which are documented throughout the report.
The lack of data in some cases does represent a risk that new information may require
adjustments to proposed programs and costs. This is an invariable aspect of all major
planning undertakings, particularly those that look 30 years into the future.
Revision: 2012‐10‐29 Integrated Resource Plan 2
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