The Southwest Dike in High River will use the "Reverse S-Curve" alignment, as determined in Monday's town council meeting.

Mayor Craig Snodgrass says he is also excited to announce that Andre Corbould will now be a part of the process.

"We had some very, very good news, which is that the Deputy Minister of Alberta Environment and Parks now is Andre Corbould again and Andre was directly involved in everything in High River immediately after the flood. He had to make some very hard decisions and the fact of the matter is that he's a good man and he's a smart guy."

He says Corbould knows all about the landscape of the High River and a lot of the people in Edmonton don't have that knowledge because it's a completely different government than in 2013. Snodgrass says when you talk to Corbould, he knows exactly what you're talking about and he's the one who helped us get Wallaceville taken care of.

Snodgrass says whether the berm is built will not change how people are affected downstream of the Little Bow River.

"The people that are affected downstream, down the Little Bow, they know all about this. With that there's two options, we either do nothing and water goes down the Little Bow or we build the SW Berm and the same amount of water goes down the Little Bow. The same amount of water. It doesn't increase or decrease the amount of water."

He says the only consideration is whether that water runs through High River first.

"What the Little Bow takes is what the Little Bow will take. The difference is are we going to run that water through parts of the town of High River before it goes down, and I'd prefer not to."

Snodgrass says its frustrating for residents and the town to wait as the application goes through the regulatory processes, but it's not like the days right after the flood when everything was expedited. He says we're past that emergency state so we're kind of back to normal.