Sunshine Coast water news

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

The loans would require an alternative approval process for long-term borrowing

Before the final phase of water meter installations for properties served by regional water systems could get underway, direct award of a contract to shíshálh Nation for up to $618,261 plus GST for archaeological monitoring required approval.

Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors were asked to consider getting behind another grant application to support the shíshálh Nation’s water reservoir project.

Matching legalities with current practices proved to be a complicated undertaking for the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) board at its March 14 meeting.

'Let’s be ready for anything and everything': advice shared with SCRD directors on Chapman water system supply in 2024's first regional water system update.