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Town of Oliver mayor Ron Hovanes is off to Ottawa next week for a meeting with the federal Minister of Infrastructure to try to secure funding for the irrigation canal rerouting project.
MP Richard Cannings secured the meeting, set for Monday, after raising the issue in the House of Commons last month.
“It's really a good news story, there is some good potential here to get some funding out of this,” Coun. Dave Mattes said during this week’s council meeting.
The nearly 100-year-old Oliver canal brings water to 1,400 hectares of farmland along its 17.4 kilometre route between Vaseux Lake and Hester Creek.
In 2016 a rockfall damaged the canal at Gallagher Lake, and since then, the municipality has been working to secure funding to reroute the canal away from the rockslide-prone area.
The provincial government has committed $5M of the $10M needed to complete the project, but the federal government has so far refused to help.
The project has so far not fit the criteria for grant programs in both the infrastructure and agriculture ministries, to the frustration of the Town of Oliver.
MP Cannings will participate in the meeting with Hovanes and Minister François-Philippe Champagne.
