The Vaseux Lake Stewardship Association Board met on Tuesday September 10th and set the date for the Annual Meeting on the 21st September between 2:00 and 4:00PM at my residence at 216 Sundial Rd. Oliver, BC. This meeting will include an election for the Board members, the Chair and Vice Chair for the Vaseux Lake […]
RDOS Approves Wetland Funds
The RDOS has finally approved $383,701 for the construction of the wetland adjacent to the Okanagan Falls Sewage Treatment Plant. Effluent has been flowing unfiltered into Vaseux Lake since 2012 when the Okanagan Falls Sewage Treatment Plant was built. The RDOS assured the VLSA that construction of the filtering wetland would begin in late 2017. […]
Vaseux Lake Milfoil Control and DEAD Fish
The following is a letter the Vaseux Lake Stewardship Association sent to Jonathan Wilkinson, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans on June 4th, 2019 regarding milfoil control on Vaseux Lake, British Columbia. Dear Minister Wilkinson and Minister Donaldson, The Vaseux Lake Stewardship Association (VLSA) was created in July 2017 to promote sound stewardship practices on […]
VLSA Calls on RDOS to Act on Milfoil and Siltation Issues
The Vaseux Lake Stewardship Association Board would like to thank the RDOS and Laratt Aquatic for the study on Vaseux Lake’s water quality, siltation and milfoil proliferation. The study identified some good recommendations for milfoil control and highlighted the serious siltation problem at the north end of Vaseux Lake. The Association does have one concern […]
Vaseux Lake Land Use and Water Quality Assessment Report
The main objective of the Vaseux Lake Land Use and Water Quality Assessment was to determine likely sources of nutrients and sediment contributing to the increased invasive milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) and to filamentous algae growth observed over the past few years in Vaseux Lake. In other words, why did Vaseux Lake have so much milfoil […]