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Share to Jan 13, 2021 5:30 PM Pete McIntyre
The City of West Kelowna, in consultation with Interior Health, has issued a Water Quality Advisory for the Pritchard-Sunnyside System due to turbidity issues in Okanagan Lake in the vicinity of the intake related to an overnight windstorm.
View a map at
westkelownacity.ca/waterquality to confirm if your property is in the affected Pritchard-Sunnyside System.
Turbidity affects the performance of the chlorine disinfection process because bacteria, protozoa, viruses and other microorganisms can attach themselves to suspended particles in the turbid water. These particles can interfere with disinfection by shielding the microorganisms from the chlorine.
Jan 14, 2021 12:05 AM Russ Byth
Kelowna Council issued a development permit for a project that includes three towers at the corner of Leon and Water Streets by City Park. They will be 24, 28 and 42 storeys tall. The project includes 650 residential units, office space, a 5-storey parking area and a pedestrian overpass connecting the towers.
There were four additional deaths in long-term care homes in the Interior Health Region yesterday from covid-19. Three were in Oliver and one was in Vernon bringing the total since the pandemic began to 44. As for new cases, there were 84 in Interior Health which were part of 519 in all of BC. There have been just over 59-thousand cases of the virus in the province.