Sunday, July 17, 2016

Recommendation NOT to proceed with Water Master Plan PEER Review to be ratified at RDNO Directors meeting on Wednesday ?

REGIONAL DISTRICT OF NORTH OKANAGAN
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Boardroom - 9848 Aberdeen Road, Coldstream, BC
4:00 p.m.


16.
2012 Master Water Plan Review – Stakeholder Advisory Committee Statements and Recommendations
         Report dated May 12, 2016

RECOMMENDATION 25
 Page 400 - 535


(Customized Stakeholder Vote – Includes Coldstream, Vernon, Electoral Areas B and C)
That as recommended by the Greater Vernon Advisory Committee, the request from the Citizens for Changes to the Master Water Plan to hire an independent engineering consultant to undertake a peer review of the 2012 Master Water Plan not go forward.

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Results of GVAC Vote on June 29 GVAC Special Meeting.

2012 Master Water Plan Review – Stakeholder Advisory Committee Statements and Recommendations Moved and seconded by Directors Macnabb and Lord 

That it be recommended to the Board of Directors the request from the Citizens for Changes to the Master Water Plan to hire an independent engineering consultant to undertake a peer review of the 2012 Master Water Plan not go forward. CARRIED Opposed: Alternate Director Spiers and Councillor Kiss

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Don Quixote Comments :

The "recommended chosen" option 2  By SAC Committee is a $111 million dollar expenditure that should have a peer review or an engineering & operational and financing review before it is reincorporated into the master water plan for IHA blessing and approval.

 We originally managed to get a Peer Review of Duteau Filtration and that $30,000 study concluded that the cost of this method could reduce the Filtration Costs at Duteau from the $26.5 million Filtration in Option 2 (http://www.rdno.ca/docs/TM10_Financial_Plan_FINAL.pdf ) to between $8 and $10 million for the ultraviolet and scrubbing method as recommended  in this peer review.
(if approved by IHA)

I asked for a peer review before the last election and referendum and still feel that when we are requiring a $111 million expenditure ( with $26.5 for Duteau Filtration and $30 million for mission Hill Filtration )(in 2022) that we pursue a professional review.

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PEER REVIEW OF Duteau Filtration:

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