Posted on December 14, 2015
By Lachlan Labere, Eagle Valley News
By building the equivalent of a seawall along the channel, there is hope the district may be able to build a better case to have the channel dredged.
At its Nov. 25 committee of the whole meeting, Sicamous council discussed a concept of the channel devised by Coun. Jeff Mallmes. It includes the east side of the channel being shored up and a wall being put in place. Mayor Terry Rysz said this would deal with a few issues. One, it would provide the base for the continuation of the walkway along the channel. Secondly, it would provide a definable line up to which to dredge the channel. Finally, said Rysz, if something like this were developed, it might improve the district’s case to acquire a permit to have the channel dredged.
“If we could ever pull something like this off it would be amazing,” said Rysz. “I think that would be the answer for that channel, from a walkway point of view, from a dredging point of view, access, it would clean the channel right up.”
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