The CVRD found that one of the two new wells on its Saltair Water System, on Vancouver Island, carries more dissolved minerals than the other, and says groundwater quality can change with pumping and the seasons. Water can differ from one well to the next, even next door.
Vancouver Coastal Health has issued a boil-water advisory for the Eastbourne Water Service on Keats Island after elevated levels of bacteria were detected. The SCRD says the issue is not believed to be related to water barged in this summer.
From the other sections, while this one grows.
A BC drought level is about how dry the region is, a watering stage is about your supplier’s system, and a boil water notice is about safety. None of them tells you how your own well is doing.
It depends on what the animals are kept for, not how many there are. Water for animals or poultry kept for household use or as pets is domestic and needs no licence. Water for an enterprise raising livestock, or for a kennel or a boarding stable, is an industrial purpose and does.
No tool gives a yes in advance. You can check what the Province’s technical review reads: the allocation notations on the source, the licences and applications already on it and, in five regions, a watershed report.
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