Emergency water repair in Lavington area

Greater Vernon Water is notifying customers east of Lavington that they will lose water service while crews repair a failed air release valve on a large transmission water main.

“This will affect properties on Learmouth Road from Park Lane to Whitevale Road, including Rochdell Road and Reid Road. Customers in the Lavington area may experience lower water pressure or loss of water during the shutdown and repair,” said a news release from the Regional District of North Okanagan.

As the failure is on a large transmission main, it needs to be fully drained which will impact a larger area than normal. Operations crews are repairing the issue and expect the water outage to be until Monday evening (January 17) before the system is restored and water service is resumed.