Kelowna gets OK to take over Glenmore-Ellison water district
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The Glenmore-Ellison Improvement District serves around 23,000 people and has a serviceable area of around 9,100 acres.
And then there were three.
On Friday, the City of Kelowna, B.C., announced that its takeover of the Glenmore-Ellison Improvement District was officially underway after getting the green light from the province.
A decade ago, there were five public but separate watering districts in the greater Kelowna area. Now, there are three: Kelowna Water Utility, Rutland Waterworks and Black Mountain Irrigation.
The slow merger process began in 2018, when Kelowna took over the South East Kelowna Irrigation District.
SEKID had been providing water since 1920 and provided water utilities to around 20 per cent of Kelowna’s population, though most of the district’s 9,000 acres was agricultural land.
The Glenmore-Ellison Improvement District serves around 23,000 people and has a serviceable area of around 9,100 acres.
The merger began in March when GEID board members unanimously signed a transition agreement with the city.
“The conversion is consistent with Kelowna’s Integrated Water Supply Plan and provincial policies that call for improvement districts to gradually shift to local governments,” the city said.
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