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Glenmore Ellison Improvement District

Boil water notice issued for Ellison

KELOWNA – Recent heavy rainfall has made water from Mill Creek unsuitable for drinking. The…

Years of bad water convinces Kelowna man irrigation districts have to go

KELOWNA - A Glenmore man says Kelowna residents need to get educated on how water is delivered in the city and the turf war going on behind the scenes with local irrigation districts. “I understand how we came to have four irrigation districts, but we’re not the same city anymore, it isn’t 80 years ago....

Cloudy brown water soon a thing of the past in Glenmore Ellison

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - It’s taken almost seven years and $20 million, but residents who have endured near constant water quality advisories in the Glenmore Ellison area are getting some relief. Darwin Kutney, geneal manager of the Glenmore Ellison Improvement District, says its new Okanagan Lake intake and pump station plus a closed reservoir are set...

Kelowna mayor is about to take on irrigation districts on water quality

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran is bent on solving one of the city's greatest and longest problems — drinking water — and seems prepared to go to war with  local irrigation districts to make it happen. Basran and the city announced this week the current plan to standardize water delivery across the city...

Water quality reminder for 400 Glenmore Ellison homes

KELOWNA - Residents in the area of east of Old Vernon Road are being reminded of the continuing water quality advisory for their area. While the entire Glenmore-Ellison Improvement District system is under a water quality advisory, the 400 homes in the affected area just came off a boil water advisory last November. “Normally, this...