The Okanagan Basin Water Board has announced funding for its 2011 Water Conservation and Quality Improvement Grant program.

Some $300,000 has been awarded to 19 projects in the Okanagan that will conserve and improve water in our region, recognizing that we are all share

 “One valley. One Water.”
 
Here’s where funds are going in the South Okanagan.

$65,700 in total to projects in the south with these two in our area.
 

Regional District Okanagan Similkameen

Project Title:

Osoyoos Lake Foreshore Inventory Mapping and Aquatic Habitat Index Project
Organization: Town of Osoyoos

Description:
This project will inventory and map the shoreline of Osoyoos Lake and develop an aquatic habitat index that will be shared with the Community Mapping Network.Staff Notes:This FIM work complements other FIM work done in the valley and will also aid in our milfoil permitting processes.

Project Title:
Okanagan River Water Intake Feasibility Project
Organization: Okanagan Nation Alliance

Description:The ONA will identify water licences with intakes on the Okanagan River and connectingoxbows to determine which intakes would be negatively impacted if mid-summer flows werereduced (which would aid with water management for Sockeye). Staff Notes:This project is highly collaborative and could lead to water conservation, benefitting valleyresidents and sockeye.