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SAC members could have learned a lot by asking the politicians why they publicly rejected the referendum during their election campaign after they supported the MWP. They could have saved a lot of time. Even Director Macnabb wondered about why there was a change of heart by many of the politicians:
“To turn around and say they support the plan, but not the $70 million to fund it is disingenuous in my mind,” Said Director Macnabb (read all)
As it happened the Staff supported Option 2 prevailed, eliminating all of the options that would have used Kalamalka and Okanagan lakes for fully separated domestic supplies. Never mind the threat of climate change and higher treatment costs.
The process will totally dismantle the original VID irrigation system and replace it with a complicated new system. There will be three supply lines (domestic only from Mission Hill, mixed irrigation/domestic water from the Duteau Treatment Plant and a new untreated irrigation water supply directly from Harvey Lake). All those systems will be the financial responsibility of the domestic customers. They will pay the cost of construction, operation and maintenance and the replacement value of the total system. The current 4% agriculture contribution of the total budget is a smidgen of those costs.
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3 comments:
Disgraceful result!
Where the heck is Harvey Lake. Never heard it was in the mix. Why now?
Harvey Lake is the reservoir from which water is diverted for domestic and irrigation use. Thanks to a reader I can supply some reference to Harvey Lake as follows:
http://www.rdno.ca/tenders/140903_HDI_TNDR_Addendum_3.pdf
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