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MISSION CREEK RESTORATION
Original water flow route revival Kevin Parnell kparnell@kelownacapnews.com
Over the course of a 45-year engineering career, Don Dobson has spent a lot of time working on rivers and streams, to control water flows. Much of the work in the early part of his career was spent containing water flows in places like Chilliwack and Steveston, where he worked on dikes on the Fraser River. But now Dobson is seeing a significant change in his work and it’s directly happening here
The first phase of Mission Creek Restoration is nearly complete with widening project down from Casorso Bridge to return waterway to its past historical route. in Kelowna as a large group of community partners work to restore Mission Creek to a more natural flow. “It’s kind of neat,” said Dobson, whose crew has moved one of the original dikes on Mission Creek west of the Casorso Bridge. “The engineering approaches we used in the past—which were very good from an engineering perspective of putting in works
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that would contain the flow—have changed. “Now we’ve learned that there are better ways to do things. Now I’m going back in, in the latter part of my career, and actually moving dikes away from the creek, working with the creek instead of fighting it.” In this case, Dobson is working on a stretch of Mission Creek with several groups including the City
of Kelowna, the regional district and the province, the Friends of Mission Creek, the Okanagan Nation Alliance, the Westbank First Nation and the Central Okanagan Land Trust. Together these groups make up the Mission Creek Restoration Initiative (MCRI) and plan how to restore Mission Creek back to its original flows. Originally as it entered East Kelowna, Mission Creek meandered for 33 kilometres before emptying into Okanagan Lake. As the city developed and
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