The Portage and District Boat Launch Group is making huge strides toward its dream of a marina at Delta Beach.

Roy Tufford is RM of Portage la Prairie councillor in Ward Four and gives us an update on some behind-the-scenes progress.

"The people that are out there that are on that committee have said they've got the funding to go ahead, and now we have a couple of small steps to make it possible for them to do that job," explains Tufford. "They want to do it this winter. They've got some money to do the excavation and build the boat launch. And then we'll see what happens."

year-and-a-half ago to show them what they had envisioned for the marina.

"And we don't have an issue with it," continues Tufford. "It looks like a pretty good design. I don't know that it's going to all happen immediately at once, but they're going to get an area to put slips in, excavated off the side of the channel with an entrance. Right beside that, there will be a boat launch. So, the boat launch should be much closer to the lake and we'll probably get rid of all those issues we have with the inner channel silting up because they won't actually need to ever go into the inner channel with boats."