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Street turns into stream

Water that started as a light trickle down the side of East Kelowna Road is now a running stream – and it’s causing area residents serious concern.

Several complaints were lodged to Castanet, the City of Kelowna and Rutland Waterworks, alleging the water was coming from a broken water main or sewage line.

Peter Preston, with Rutland Waterworks, says the issue was brought to light a week ago, when residents first noticed the water flow near Hollywood Road.

“We’ve traced the water up the hill into Black Mountain territory, but it’s a spring that is coming down the hill,” Preston explained.

He says he’s known about the spring for 40 years, but doesn’t ever remember it flowing over into the street.

“We are convinced it’s not a broken waterline or anything like that. It is just natural spring water,” Preston said. “I think what’s happened is it’s silted up in a culvert somewhere or something like that, and so it has just found a new course.”

Rutland Waterworks marked its water mains to avoid any issue when the City of Kelowna attended to excavate, Wednesday afternoon.

Preston isn’t sure how the city will reroute the stream, but says workers will rectify the issue and redirect the water back where it belongs.



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