Alberta Transportation (the applicant) submitted an application on November 3, 2017 to the NRCB to construct an off-stream reservoir near Springbank, Alberta. The reservoir would work in tandem with the Glenmore Reservoir in Calgary to accommodate water volumes equal to the 2013 flood. The proposed reservoir would be located 15 kilometres west of Calgary near Springbank Road, north of the Elbow River and predominantly east of Highway 22. For further information about the proposed project see the Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir project on the Alberta Transportation website.

The application to the NRCB includes the environmental impact assessment (EIA), prepared by Alberta Transportation in accordance with the terms of reference set out jointly by the NRCB, Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP), and other provincial government agencies. To view the EIA, use the “Review Documents” search, below.

AEP leads the provincial review of the EIA and coordinates the supplemental information requests (SIRs) from the NRCB, AEP, and other provincial government agencies.

AEP and the NRCB issued a joint notice of filing on November 6, 2017, advising the public that the application had been received but would not be deemed complete until any deficiencies in the EIA were identified and addressed. The 2017 EIA was replaced by Alberta Transportation with a new EIA and resubmitted to the NRCB and AEP on March 26, 2018.

AEP sent supplemental information request (SIR #1) to Alberta Transportation on July 28, 2018. SIR #1 set out deficiencies in the EIA that were identified by the NRCB, AEP, and other provincial government agencies. Alberta Transportation submitted its responses to SIR #1 on June 14, 2019.

In 2016 the federal minister of the environment decided the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (Agency), previously known as the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, would conduct its own separate environmental assessment of the project. For information on the status of the federal review of the application, please refer to the Impact Assessment Agency website.