RDCO taking steps to remove old float home from Okanagan Lake

The float home is beached on the western shore of Okanagan Lake, at Bear Creek Provincial Park.

Keeping the lake clean, that’s one of the Regional District of Central Okanagan’s priorities in the region and it says steps are being taken to remove an old float home.

The float home is beached on the western shore of Okanagan Lake, at Bear Creek Provincial Park.

RDCO board member Charlie Hodge introduced a notice of motion to have the decrepit float home removed from Okanagan lake.

“It’s actually in the jurisdiction of the park and, sadly, it’s been there for way too long,” said Hodge.

“It’s been there for years and years and years, the RDCO has been trying to get rid of it for a long time.”

The notice of motion was passed unanimously by the RDCO board and a letter of recommendation of removal has been sent to the B.C. Ministry of Land, Water and Resources and the B.C. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy.

“It’s been an old case of whose responsibility is it? Is it the feds or is it the province? They’ve been playing dodgeball,” said Hodge.

“I made a motion, on Monday night, that we send a letter to the province to get rid of it, and we are asking for the immediate removal.”