The NDP government is providing $30-million for work on the southwest berm and other projects in and around High River.

Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee was in the town to make the announcement.

Mayor Craig Snodgrass was happy to see the new government step up.

"The announcement today is the success, getting the southwest berm done, municipalities need to know how to work with these rivers instead of against them, with their development is the big thing, Beachwood and Wallaceville," he says. "We have to be smarter at this, not just High River either, this is every community in Canada."

He says there's an additional $2-million for flood mapping which needs to be done before the province is willing to take steps to move ahead on replacing the Centre Street bridge by Sobeys.

"That's where the flood modeling piece is a big chuck of that, we have to get things modelled properly so that we know how to build that bridge properly, there's a lot of talk about it and we;'ve got engineering designs that are in play right now, but I understand the government wanting us to get the new modelling done before they commit to exactly what is that bridge," Mayor Snodgrass says. "There is absolutely no doubt the bridge has to be replaced, the government knows it, we know it."