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The Regional District of Central Okanagan has issued a precautionary Water Quality Advisory for some customers of the Westshore Estates water system. 

The advisory only affects the following ten properties on the community water system located along Westside Road:

• Even addresses between 500 and 578 Mountain Drive
• 84 Hillcrest Way

The advisory is required after crews repaired a leak today. Roadside sign notices are in place advising of the water advisory.  Other properties within the Westshore...

The Regional District of Central Okanagan Waste Reduction Office is offering free recycling workshops and education information for multi-family properties, condos and apartment buildings to help residents and property managers with their recycling efforts.

The training and education program was a recommendation from the 2019-2020 Multi-family Recycling Study conducted by GreenStep Solutions. It identified common barriers to recycling in multi-family buildings which included uncertainty about what...

The battle against mosquitoes moves to roadside catch basins next week in many Central Okanagan neighbourhoods.

Weather permitting from Monday, June 20 through Friday, June 24, Regional District Mosquito Control program crew wearing high visibility vests and driving scooters with whip flags will be stopping briefly at roadside catch basins in Kelowna, Lake Country, Peachland, Westbank First Nation, a portion of West Kelowna Estates in the City of West Kelowna and the Sunset Ranch community in the...

Regional Parks

• KLO Creek Regional Park is closed due to high water levels in the creek.
• Previously announced closures of underpasses and a section along the Mission Creek Greenway will continue until water levels recede and damage can be assessed and repairs completed.

Sandbags available for RDCO electoral area residents 

Central Okanagan East and Central Okanagan West electoral area property owners may pick up sandbags at:

• Ellison Fire Department – Station 61 – 4411 Old Vernon Road
• Joe Rich...

Rising water levels and increased flows have resulted in the closure of portions of the Mission Creek Greenway recreational trail.

“Until Mission Creek returns to a safe level and our staff can safely assess trail conditions,” RDCO Communications Officer Bruce Smith says, ”the Greenway corridor is closed from the Hollywood Road south entrance at the Peck Road parking area upstream to the Field Road entrance.”  He adds, “The underpasses at the Truswell/Lakeshore, Gordon Drive and Casorso Road...