Lake levels on Vaseux Lake are high again this year, almost at the flooding levels we experience in 2017 and 2018. During wind storms, the lake water is splashing over permanent break walls and making its way towards homes. In a statement to the Oliver Daily News, Norm Gaumont, chairman of the Vaseux Lake Stewardship […]
Love Your Lake Access Code Letters Mailed
Last summer, the Southern Interior Land Trust assessed every shoreline property on Vaseux Lake. Trained crews worked from a boat to determine the current state of each property’s shoreline and identified voluntary actions each landowner could take to help protect their shoreline from flood and erosion, maintain property value, protect your view, and improve water […]
Association’s Opposition to Proposed Campground in the News
The Vaseux Lake Stewardship Association’s opposition to the planned removal from the ALR to put in a 35-site campground on the lake’s shoreline has been much publicized over the last couple of days. Videos and articles appear in the following: Castanet (video) Global News (video) Oliver Chronicle (article) Oliver Daily News (article) An article will […]
VLSA Update: October 18, 2019
On behalf of the Vaseux Lake Stewardship Association, I would like to thank Jim D’Andrea from Noble Ridge Vineyards who donated $1000 this year to the Association. This donation is greatly appreciated and will help move some of our planned projects forward. The election for the Vaseux lake Stewardship Board members took place last month […]
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. […]