Water quality advisory extended for Okanagan Falls lower zone – Okanagan | 24CA News
A water high quality advisory has been prolonged for the decrease zone of the Okanagan Falls water system.
Announced earlier this week, the Regional District for Okanagan Similkameen (RDOS) says the advisory for manganese will stay in place till additional discover.
The regional district says it “recognizes that residents in the lower zone are continuing to encounter poor water quality and the RDOS is working on making changes to the water system with the anticipation of long-term improvements to the water quality.”
The RDOS says it’s additionally engaged on one properly within the zone, however that affected residents are suggested to make use of a secure supply of ingesting water within the meantime.
Maintenance work on one properly, No. 5, is full, together with components substitute plus cleansing and disinfecting.
Another properly, No. 2, has been faraway from service, with the RDOS saying the change has resulted in some minor modifications in water move, leading to sediments being stirred up, affecting water high quality.
The RDOS says the plan is to have the decrease zone equipped solely by properly No. 5, “which does not have issues that well No. 2 has with elevated iron and manganese.”
The regional district added that preliminary findings point out that properly No. 5 can doubtless meet the decrease zone demand for almost all of the 12 months, although additional move testing might be performed throughout the subsequent two weeks.
But to accommodate the move testing, the RDOS says it should even be finishing its annual watermain flushing, with that program slated to happen over the last week of March.
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