Stan Marshall:

Sportsmen’s Bowl Road has water issues due to run off and has not seen that for 30 years. The RDOS does not know what to do due to funding, the creek that use to flow was diverted years ago, with the government action it’s like watching Abbott and Costello pointing fingers at each other (Municipal(RDOS), provincial) as  they try and  figure who is responsible or why it’s happening or where it’s coming from without investigating, people are sandbagging and trying to get answers but no one is passing information because they (government) are afraid of liability problems as to what they are doing.

RDOS has stated due to legal reasons they cannot inform residents as to what their actions are while they continue there own agenda to divert the water issue and leave it up to the residents as a community to pay out of there own pocket for their own preventive maintenance and they will leave it in the provincial hands if a disaster strikes like Testalinda.

Myself and my neighbor possess a valid and paid for and independent study from environmental planners last year that this is no longer a water course area due to a diversion of water flow up above us but due to lack of funding or field investigation from the government they are sitting arbitrarily on their own government entity hands.

Stan Marshall’s comments written last week when the threat was imminent.

Subsequent to this, V-Line contracted by MOTI to clean out the roadside culverts, and rip rock being installed on the bottom end of the creek near the Tomlin’s along with larger driveway culverts. RDOS has inspected the scene. The problem seems to be the unpredictable creek and what is going on upstream on Meyers Flats – thought to be the origin of the water.

The creek falls down quite a distance and splits near the Sportsman’s Bowl with one path going through a orchard and the main water skirted the north bluff. A report is needed on the whole watercourse: origin of water, dams, falls, proper course for water, destination, culverts, flood protection, homeowner/farmer responsibilities, crown responsibility and Municipal (RDOS).

One unusual factor is the velocity of the creek upstream but by the time it gets to the highway it seems to go underground and disappear. Believed to be part of the Park Rill system that flows into oxbows and heads south to end up in the river.