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| Photo: Duteau Creek Treatment Plant |
The snow around Vernon the last few weeks is helping the area's water supply situation. Regional District of North Okanagan water sustainability coordinator Jennifer Miles says snow pack readings at the three Duteau Creek reservoir monitoring sites are between 104 to 134 percent of average, for this time of year. The depth of the snow is between 116 to 146 percent of average. The supply for the Kalamalka Lake water source is not quite as high. The Okanagan-Kettle Basin's snow pack is 88 percent of normal, while the South Thompson Basin, covering Duteau Creek reservoirs, is 97 percent of normal. Miles says typically, about 80 percent of the normal snow pack is received by March 1st. The Duteau Creek reservoir levels as of March 1 are at 5031 mega-litres (million litres), or 80 percent of average. "By comparison, 2.5 ML would fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool," says Miles.
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