West Kelowna celebrates new Rose Valley Water Treatment Plant
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On Friday, residents and local officials received a firsthand look inside the new facility during a grand opening ceremony.
For as long as West Kelowna has been a city, residents have been dealing with water quality issues. That is until now, as the Rose Valley Water Treatment plant is officially up and running.
Prior to commissioning of the new water treatment plant, neighbourhoods on the Rose Valley water system regularly were subject to water quality and boil water advisories.
“I feel really satisfied that we are now delivering some of the best water in the Okanagan,” said Rose Valley Water Treatment Plant Operator Two Scott Brost. “Compared to its previous quality where we were constantly putting on every year water quality advisories.”
On Friday, residents and local officials received a firsthand look inside the new facility during a grand opening ceremony.
“It’s been a long time coming and we thank the more than 19,650 Rose Valley system users for the patience throughout the planning and construction of what is truly the city’s largest infrastructure project,” said West Kelowna’s Mayor Gord Milsom.
The project was funded through more than $40 million in federal and provincial grants, city funds as well as increased water rates for homeowners in the neighbourhoods that the plant serves.
Following several delays, phase one of the plant launched in November of last year, and by December of 2023, more than half of West Kelowna households started to receive clean water from the plant.
“Despite the unprecedented issues such as supply chain, labour shortages and surviving a wildfire which kind of went right over this building… the project remained on budget at $75 million,” said Milsom.
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