Posted Friday, September 5, 2014
This November 15th, the Regional District of North Okanagan (RDNO) will be asking Greater Vernon Water (GVW) service area electors whether they are in favour of borrowing $70 million to complete six priority projects outlined in the Master Water Plan (MWP). These priority projects have been selected and reviewed by a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) comprised of engineers, water technologists and Chief Administrative Officers from the RDNO, City of Vernon and District of Coldstream, representatives from the agricultural community, Interior Health, and a Council representative from the District of Coldstream. These projects have been deemed necessary to meet the requirements of the BC Drinking Water Protection Act and provide water security for Greater Vernon Water customers well into the future.To provide information on the Borrowing Referendum and the MWP priority projects, four open house sessions will be offered beginning in September. Please join RDNO staff at one of the following sessions:
| SEPTEMBER 16 | 5:00PM TO 7:00PM | SCHUBERT CENTRE, VERNON | ||
| SEPTEMBER 29 | 5:00PM TO 7:00PM | WOMEN'S INSTITUTE HALL, COLDSTREAM | ||
| OCTOBER 7 | 5:00PM TO 7:00PM | REC CENTRE AUDITORIUM, VERNON | ||
| OCTOBER 28 | 5:00PM TO 7:00PM | RDNO BOARD ROOM, COLDSTREAM |
For more information about the GVW MWP, please go online to the new Water Vote 2014 web pages at www.rdno.ca/water or contact the RDNO at engineering@rdno.ca or 250-550-3700.
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Some comments from Coldstreamer:
The previous slide and the video depict agricultural fields being
irrigated with
treated water.
The owner pays about $0.7 per cu
m for water
The owner would be happy with
untreated raw water but he can’t get it, why?
Domestic
and irrigation water come in the same pipe!
Domestic
customers pay $2.16 to $100.30 per cu m depending on volume used
Their
usage is strictly controlled
(Monday, Wednesday, Friday;
time of usage etc.)
We
must conserve water but the more we
conserve the more we pay per unit.
Promise during the 2004 Referendum: Vote "YES" and your water rates will remain stable.
The promise
and the
Would reality be different this time? Unlikely! There is still a pending cost of $41 million to be collected after 2022.
This is how the rates escalated in actual figures over the years:
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It continues to go from bad to worse. Time they fired all "the staff" who make these recommendations that the reps take as gospel.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it is also time to fire the "reps" that don't challenge their staff! For this kind of expenditure an independent 3rd party review was necessary; our elected officials decided, in the majority, that it wasn't necessary. They don't have my trust, so they don't have my vote.
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