Carman Council has re-affirmed its support for the Boyne Valley Water Initiative. Councillor Richard Dyck has been appointed a board representative in a show of support for the project moving forward.

Mayor Bob Mitchell says the thirteen year old project is commonly referred to as the Treherne Dam.

"So what they want to do is they want to put a dam on the Boyne River, that'd be north and west of Treherne, and then pump water from the Assiniboine River into that reservoir."

He believes this will create a body of water about 24,000 acre-feet in size, about ten times the size of the Stephenfield Reservoir.

Mitchell says Council has been supportive of the group for a long time, having helped fund engineering studies for example. He suggests that the group's next step is to convince the province to support the project.

"It's expensive but it's a flood mitigation thing, the more water you take out of the Assiniboine River the less water goes into Winnipeg and we need the water here."