Water Quality Advisory Rescinded for the Pritchard-Sunnyside Water System

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 01, 2020 

The City of West Kelowna, in consultation with Interior Health, has rescinded the Water Quality Advisory for the Pritchard-Sunnyside Water System. The City issued the advisory May 15, 2020 due to high turbidity in Okanagan Lake.

The City has conducted comprehensive testing and received all mandatory laboratory confirmations necessary to rescind the Water Quality Advisory.

The City thanks users for their patience while our Utility crews worked diligently and according to required best practices to return the system to normal operations as quickly as possible.

The Lakeview-Rose Valley System remains on a Water Quality Advisory.

To determine if you live in the Lakeview-Rose Valley System, please see our Water Quality Advisory Map at westkelownacity.ca/waterquality.

Under a Water Quality Advisory, children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems, must use water brought to a rolling boil for one minute or more, or seek an alternative safe source, for brushing teeth, drinking, making baby formula, food, ice, and beverages and washing fruits and vegetables.

The bulk filling station at Shannon Lake and Asquith Roads provides a safe, alternative source of drinking water from the state of the art Powers Creek Water Filtration Plant that uses multiple methods of treatment, which the City will replicate at the Rose Valley treatment facility when completed in 2022. Customers can use the touch-free filling station free during the Water Quality Advisory. Bring clean bottles for filling. The tap is located on the Asquith Road side of the facility. In keeping with COVID-19 guidelines, users should not touch the station nor their faces, sanitize their hands before and after using the station, and maintain a safe distance of two meters between themselves and others.

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