I watched the incredible Canada Day fireworks celebration at
Kal Beach whistling and hollering along with the crowd! What a great display,
culminating in a crescendo of explosive power that had us all thrilled. It is
therefore with some trepidation that I dare raise this issue – a lot of garbage
is going into the our drinking water supply for a few minutes of wonder. This is
a photo of the fireworks debris we collected in a few minutes along a small
portion of lakefront the morning after. It felt like a hangover, not worth the
fun of the night before. And this is just the pieces that we could reach, much
more was visible on the shallow lake bottom. How much more covers the north end
of the lake?
About 2/3 of the debris was paper and will bio-degrade with
time, but the rest is plastic that will never disappear. Between the annual
Halloween fireworks and now Canada Day on the beach (rather than on land as in
the past), we are polluting our drinking water source at an increasing
rate.
So at the risk of being labelled a grumpy old man, I would at
least like to get a discussion going among all of us who love Kalamalka
Lake.
Paul Christie
Concerned Resident
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