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The first phase of plans to build a wetland next to the OK Falls wastewater treatment plant has been given the go-ahead by the Regional District Okanagan Similkameen.
On Thursday, board members approved spending $326,740 to have a consultation done by Native Plant Solutions — a consulting arm of Ducks Unlimited.
Including the consultation, the wetland project is expected to cost just over $1 million to complete.
The regional district committed $700,000 to the project in October, and the remainder of funding will come from a federal grant worth just under $361,000.
That federal grant, allocated in 2012 as a gas tax fund, was set to expire on Sep. 30 if the regional district hadn't used the money by then.
The regional district also bought a piece of land in 2015 just over 10 acres in size, adjacent to the wastewater plant, with plans to construct a wetland there.
Area D director Tom Siddon said getting a consultation done now "is an important step" for the wetland project, which has always been envisioned to go next to the OK Falls wastewater treatment plant — a facility that opened in 2013 and had been planned since 2005.
The wetland will better help to remove contaminants before they are discharged from the plant into the Okanagan River, the regional district said in a report.
