By Tom Mark

Coldstream Council Moves Forward On Kalavista Lagoon

Aug 16, 2017 | 10:21 AM

Coldstream Council has given approval to Committee of the Whole recommendations to determine how to improve Kalavista Lagoon.

Mayor Jim Garlick says the options are turning the area into a natural habitat or introducing water from Kal Lake.

“We’ve got regulatory bodies that need to look at this. This Ministry of Environment, Interior Health, our Greater Vernon Water; they’ll have to look at what an exchange of water from the lagoon into the lake will mean”

There’s also the question of sediment removal.

“To see whether it would be a simple dredging of the lagoon or we would need to go through some other process to have those sediments approved to put somewhere else.”

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Council is leaning to creating a wetland.

Friends of Kal Lake representative Simone Runyan presented a report backing a wetland and better protection for painted turtles.

They also wanted the Lagoon dredged to a depth of 1.5 metres or more to allow paddling in the summer and skating in the winter.

Her report said the lagoon serves a function ecologically as well as socially to beautify the area.

It said more than 80% of Okanagan wetlands have been lost to development, but what remains is tremendously important to numerous species of wildlife and plants.

by Tom Mark