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Meet the dockers

Legal or not, the City of Kelowna realizes hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenue from property owners who construct docks and wharfs along Okanagan Lake.

Figures released this week by BC Assessment show those docks have a combined assessed value of nearly $6.7 million.

That value is down significantly after spring floods destroyed close to 25 per cent of all private docks on the lake.

Deputy assessor Tracy Wall says BC Assessment contacted all known dock owners after the floods to determine which ones had been damaged or destroyed.

About 92 of approximately 378 documented structures suffered damage or were destroyed.

Wall says because the land the docks are built on is leased from the Crown, they cannot be included as part of the main property assessment. The wharfs are taxed separately.

Figures show approximately 286 structures remain on the Kelowna waterfront, 183 south of the William R. Bennett Bridge, and 103 to the north.

Their total assessed value is $6.695 million.

The most expensive wharf is assessed at $142,000. Coincidentally, it belongs to the Rock House on Hobson Road, which also has the highest assessed value of any single family home in Kelowna.



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