Seasonal flooding issues on Armstrong’s Deep Creek watershed have an irrigation district looking for support.
The Deep Creek Irrigation District is in the beginning stages of working on a program to help mitigate the flooding which has, in the past, created quite a bit of damage to farmland that once was producting.
“Decades of neglect have left the system in pport shape,” said irrigation district chairperson Bruce Jones in a presentation to Spallumcheen council.
The irrigation ditch runs from Armstrong to the head of Okanagan Lake on Okanagan Indian Band land.
The group has hired a consultant to do an initial design flow study.
“We have secured initial funding from private sources, and we are also looking at some long-term funding available on a matching basis,” said Jones.
“I am not here looking for anything other than a letter of support.”
Township council unanimously agreed to the district’s request.