Economic Development, Investment and Trade, and Natural Resources

Subject: Manitoba Forestry and Peatlands Branch - Dutch Elm Disease and Elm Firewood Surveys/Invasive Forest Pest Monitoring

• Dutch elm disease (DED) surveys and emerald ash borer (EAB) monitoring are underway again this season in participating communities.
• Provincial inspectors will be driving or walking around both public and private properties to look for DED infected trees and elm firewood with bark attached. Elm firewood spreads DED and is illegal to store.
• Inspectors may be working in the evenings and on weekends.
• Inspectors wear high-visibility vests and government issued identification.
• Our staff may not approach every resident or house before entering onto properties to conduct inspections.
• Inspectors will ring doorbells or knock on doors prior to taking branch samples, marking DED infected trees, or marking elm firewood for removal under the Dutch elm disease management program and The Forest Health Protection Act.
• Emerald ash borer monitoring traps will be placed in areas throughout southern Manitoba.

Contact Information:

Tree Line:  204-945-7866 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Garbage Collection Changes

Be advised that effective June 1^st, 2024 Riverton garbage collection contract services has a new provider.

Welcome Dave Hebert as the new Garbage Contractor.

The new scheduled collection dates will be Mondays and Fridays for businesses and Fridays for residential starting Friday, June 7^th.

The Municipality would like to thank Dwayne Bardarson and Staff for their years of dedicated service.

We are asking the public to be patience and understanding as the new contractor navigates the routes.

Please contact the Municipal Office at 204-376-2391 or by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., if your garbage has been missed.

Property Assessment Information Available Online

Manitoba’s property assessment services are now digitally available. Property owners outside the City of Winnipeg can access their assessment notice by creating an account on the MyPropertyMB digital portal.

Through the portal, property owners have access to enhanced details of their property assessment, such as buildings assessed on their property, characteristics including building age, size, and features that impact the assessed value.

Property Assessment Services Branch has posted a MyPropertyMB logo on its website to inform property owners about its digital services. Manitoba Municipal and Northern Relations encourages all municipalities to include the MyPropertyMB logo and the link to the MyPropertyMB signup page on their website.

Use of this application over traditional mailing reduces assessment services costs for municipalities.

Detailed instructions on how to add the logo and link to your website are attached to this bulletin.

Should you have any questions or concerns regarding publishing this information on your website, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton was the proud recipient of the Manitoba Good Roads Association Award for the most improved road in a Municipality-District 1 for year 2023.

Public Notice is hereby given that the 2025 Assessment Roll for the Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton has been delivered to the Municipal Office at 329 River Road, Arborg, MB and is open for public inspection during regular office hours.  

The Board of Revision will sit on Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 10:00 A.M. at the Council Chambers of the Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton to hear applications for revision made in accordance with section 42 & 43 of The Municipal Assessment Act.

APPLICATION FOR REVISION

42(1)   A person in whose name property has been assessed, a mortgagee in possession of property under section 114(1) of The Real Property Act, an occupier of premises who is required under the terms of a lease to pay the taxes on the property, or the assessor may make application for the revision of an assessment roll with respect to:

1. liability to taxation;
2. amount of an assessed value;
3. classification of property;
4. a refusal by an assessor to amend roll under subsection 13(2).

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

43(1)   An application for revision must:

1. be made in writing;
2. set out the roll number and legal description of the assessable property for which a revision is sought;
3. set out which of the matters referred to in subsection 42(1) are at issue, and the grounds for each of those matters; and
4. be filed by delivering it or causing it to be delivered to the office indicated below, or serving it upon the secretary, on or before Tuesday, August 27, 2024.

Dated this 23th day of May, 2024

Tanis Wyant - Board of Revision Secretary for the Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton

Box 70, 329 River Road, Arborg, MB   R0C 0A0 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.