Roiling the Waters

Abject bullshit.
More like aiding and abetting.

For the first time in residents' recent memory, Kal Lake water customers have been switched--during late winter--to water from Duteau Creek Water Treatment Plant.

Seems the milfoil harvester's work, this time, has stirred up sediments.
Wasn't it always policy that the harvester is not permitted to work within "x" distance from the water intake/shore? 
The Okanagan Basin Water Board--which runs the harvester--surely has such a policy in place.

Or maybe this is a thinly-veiled aiding and abetting (by OBWB) of the Greater Vernon Water folks in underscoring the importance of two water sources (that are switchable during "emergencies"), whereas the fastest growing city in British Columbia--Kelowna--has the Okanagan Lake source. 

And isn't it interesting that RDNO has the turbidity numbers (in order to force the source switch), yet resists transparency and doesn't post the numbers daily on their website (as Kelowna does).

Plus "there's a lot of dirty water coming from Coldstream Creek..." says an RDNO official.  

Dirty water in late February? 
Bullshit.
Even during this mild winter.

Here are two photos of Coldstream Creek on both sides of Ricardo Road in Coldstream (north of Coldstream Lumber and Burnco). 

My cheap camera doesn't do the clarity of this Coldstream Creek water justice.

On the west side of Ricardo Road, the water appears crystal clear...no swirling dirty sediments.  Photos taken 4:30 p.m. February 25, 2015.  Nothing floating, nothing murky, no foam from "loading"...nothing but clean water.

Bloody convenient, residents are saying.
Especially the residents who voted "no" in the $70 million water referendum in November, 2014.


And no-one's sure how many years we've seen the milfoil machine toiling just offshore from late Fall, all without water quality problems at the Kal Lake intake.

Milfoil harvesting on Kalamalka Lake.  (Photo OBWB)

"The switch will help increase the number of domestic users from Duteau...from the usual 4 per cent," scoffs Kia.

Like we said, thinly-veiled.

Dirty water?

Dirty tricks.