Greater Vernon Water bureaucrats have been chastised for exorbitant annual taxes on private fire hydrants...at least the ones that were actually billed.
So--in typical fashion--bureaucrats produced, literally, scads of pages in several reports for the Advisory Planning Committee to mull over. They begin on page 38 here. And all the verbage concerning backflow prevention devices to protect the public water system, colour-coding hydrants re flows, etc. and that only their Operators may use fire hydrants (other than the Fire Service), etc.
Yadda yadda, they go on and on.
If a picture says a thousand words, here are two thousand words showing public hydrants in use:
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| PASS! March 20. Coldstream, with meter box and backflow prevention. Colour coding for flows? |
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| FAIL! Vernon, March 23. An empty white bucket instead of a backflow prevention device/meter box. (photo submitted) |
"Maybe Vernon didn't get GVW's memo," offers Kia.
GVW was too busy nailing private fire hydrant owners.
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