Killiney Beach residents look to address water supply issues
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The Killiney Beach water system is not designed to fight a large-scale wildfire, Regional District of Central Okanagan officials said in a statement.
Residents living in the Killiney Beach neighbourhood on North Westside Road are increasingly concerned about their vulnerability to fire, due to memories of the 2021 White Rock Lake wildfire and what they view as infrastructure shortcomings.
“They ran out of water 20 minutes after the power went out,” Michael Dick, an area resident, said about the 2021 wildfire that scorched 75 properties and 83,000 hectares of land.
“So, they couldn’t fight those fires.”
The issue wasn’t the water supply, in his view. It was power. A backup supply of drinking water was available, and with some power that could have been tapped into. It was not, however.
Ingrid Bester, an area resident who lost her home, said she thinks it’s a real problem.
“We have a fire hydrant right on our driveway and we lost our house,” Bester said.
She added later that she would have liked to have seen power generators that sat idly by kick in, so the drinking water supply could have been tapped into.
The district that runs the system has a different view.
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