Sunshine Coast water news

While a draft regional water strategy received support at the committee level, the Sunshine Coast Regional Board postponed adoption of the document pending further discussion.

This annual transition means those supplied with SCRD water must limit lawn sprinkling to two days per week as well as watering of trees, shrubs, flowers or food producing plants with a sprinkler, soaker hose, or micro-spray to three days weekly.

Within four days of conducting an analysis for the infrastructure department’s Q1 report, the team effort resolved an issue

Sechelt area director Alton Toth raised concerns that while the current number and size of food-growing operations on the Coast is small, introducing extended water use exemptions could have unintended consequences.

Snow volume assessments for the Chapman Creek watershed are at 59 per cent of expected levels and that dips to 51 per cent in the lower elevations of the Edwards Lake area. 

It’s business as usual at Granthams (Church Road) wellfield while the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) reviews plans and public concerns about siting of a Sea Can to store Sodium Hypochlorite at that location.

'Fundamentally, we believe it is unfair to charge farmers the 'standard' commercial rates. Many of BC's communities encourage local food security and local agriculture through reduced water rates,' the SC Farmers Institute states.

With a $63,000 investment from the Growing Communities Fund, the SCRD plans a viability study for the Sunshine Coast Arena's potential new water source

A plan to install a Sea-Can unit to store sodium hypochlorite at the Church Road Well Field water treatment plant has neighbours frustrated

Subdivision and development control bylaw amendment proposed to handle variance applications