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Premier backs Sicamous water fix UBCM: Province will provide help to develop $4.5 million treatment facility. By Lachlan Labere MARKET NEWS STAFF
Christy Clark has given her word that the province will help fix Sicamous’ water supply. The premier, in her speech last Friday to some 1,500 delegates attending this year’s Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, assured the District of Sicamous and Mayor Darrell Trouton that the province
would help set right the damage caused to the community’s water system in this year’s flooding. “Darrell Trouton, who I met with recently when I was up to visit, has been dealing with some very challenging floods in his community, and now his water supply is under threat. Darrell, I want you to know this, because Bill (Bennett, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural
Development) has asked me to make sure we set this right. I know you need that water supply fixed, and we are going to help you do it,” said Clark. Trouton, councillors Charlotte Hutchinson, Fred Busch, Don Richardson and Joan Thomson, as well as district administrator Heidi Frank, attended UBCM with a “hit list” of concerns they’d hoped to have ad-
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dressed by the province. At the top of that list was the district’s water treatment facility, which was severely compromised as a result of the June 23 debris flow at Two Mile Creek. “We proposed to them our new water treatment facility that’s needed in Sicamous, because it was wiped See Water on page 3