Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 26 No. 4 January 23, 2015
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Snow racer
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n Adrian Decker skis uphill during the recreational 17-kilometre event in the 31st annual Reino Keski-Salmi Loppet at Larch Hills on Saturday, Jan. 17. More than 400 skiers from around B.C., Alberta and Washington state raced in the annual event.
A3 Bomb threat hoax
Student will not face criminal charges. Plus South Shuswap A8-9 Sports
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A17 Fatal fire
Person found dead after residential blaze. Plus Chase Heat A18 What’s On A18
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EvAN BuhlER/MARKET NEWS
Water program cost sparks debate
CSRD: Directors take issue with formula for allocating financial responsibility. By Barb Brouwer
MARKET NEWS STAff
The potential bill for a multi-regional Shuswap Watershed Water Quality Program had some Columbia Shuswap Regional District directors seeing red. Last March, directors awarded $50,000 to Leftside Partners to study the feasibility of establishing a multi-regional watershed water quality program and provide recommendations for a governance framework, cost recovery and an implementation plan for the service. They got that at their board meeting last week. Local government and planning consultant
Sherry Hurst presented an extensive report. As well as laying out the basic principles and characteristics of such a program, the report offered several governance options, possible funding sources, cost allocation and cost recovery. It was the estimated $200,000 to $250,000 total cost of the program and funding allocation that caused the most concern. Area F North Shuswap director Larry Morgan was visibly angry that two of the cost allocation options had his much less-populated area paying substantially more to fund the program. “How did it get to the $200,000 to $250,000 level, when last year the cost was $80,000,” he asked. “I was shocked by the allocation to Area
F; to me it resurrects old issues… We may have the most shoreline, but we don’t do the most pollution.” Calling for a revamp of the cost-allocation model, Morgan laid the issue in the laps of electoral areas C South Shuswap, D Falkland/Salmon Valley/Deep Creek and the City of Salmon Arm – Area C for sewage issues resulting from aging septic systems, Area D for agricultural runoff into the Salmon River and the city for treated sewage going into Salmon Arm Bay. “We’re being picked on in terms of this going See Funding on page A2
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