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The week of July 18, 2025
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PIPE DREAMS INFRASTRUCTURE
Peachland is pushing to provide sewer service to the entire district By John McDonald
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Staff Reporter
t may not be as glamorous as sprucing up downtown but the push to provide sewer hook ups to the houses that don’t have them haS proven to be a persistent concern to Peachland voters and property owners. “It was the number one topic I heard about during my campaign and I think the other councillors would say the same thing,” Peachland Mayor Patrick Van Minsel told the Peachland Post. But even with that high level of interest, the District of Peachland this week sent out a letter to
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Peachland’s proposed sewer installation project would be done in two phases.
residents touting the benefits of doing away with septic systems and hooking up an estimated 1,274 homes to the existing Westside Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in West Kelowna. Doing so would cost an
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estimated $26 million and take as long as seven years to complete once construction begins on the two-phase project. The letter also explained what individual property owners could expect to pay should the district be
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successful obtaining provincial and federal infrastructure grants, and perhaps more importantly, what they could expect to pay should the mayor’s lobbying efforts fail. SEE SEWERS PAGE 7
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