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How will you ensure a project or projects benefiting Peachland’s watershed receives provincial attention and funding?
I am quite comfortable getting MLA’s or MP’’s face and gently convincing them of our needs.
How would you make this happen?
As stated before I am comfortable reaching out to all groups. We can learn so much from our First Nation neighbors about sustainability
Explain how you would implement this or why you would not.
I thought the lumber and dump trucks already pay a portion. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
What additions would you suggest to this second request letter, considering clear cutting has continued for the intervening three-plus years and still further road building and tree removal are planned?
Perhaps a face to face meeting would be more effective
. Costs to upgrade, expand or build a new Water Treatment Plant: In 2015, an amendment to the Peachland Water Master Plan was completed by Urban Systems, the conclusion of the report noted that “sufficient water is available within the Peachland Creek watershed to meet the demands of the District of Peachland and the environmental flows as required by the Ministry” at that time. As of today, the existing treatment and distribution system is appropriate for approximately 7100 people. With a future population projection in the region of 15,000, there will need to be some upgrades undertaken to meet those flow demands. For example, after the 7100 threshold is reached, an upgrade in storage / reservoir capacity at the treatment plant will be required. Similarly, once the 11,300 threshold is reached, an upgrade of the treatment plant (allowing us to generate more treated water) will be required. As these costs are principally related to further development, the cost will be borne by the developers through the mechanism of development cost charges. The most recent DCC update report estimates the overall costs for all of these upgrades to be approximately $45M. All previous and current developments did not supply near enough money to pay for the costs of the past WTP nor current new WTP, (usage fees, a $400 annual WTP tax, Federal and Provincial grants contributed to the costs). If elected, how will you ensure that these new costs will not be borne AGAIN by the current residents but, by the developers and the future residents through the mechanism of development cost charges, as the district staff suggest? Do you believe this is even possible? If so, how will you ensure Peachland starts to collect a portion of this $45M in your four-year term?
Our current WTP can serve up to a population of just over 11,000. At our current rate of growth we will arrive at 8,000 by 2041. So if some of these project actually go ahead improvements will kick in then