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Airplane crash delays Okanagan Valley aerial mapping project

Posted on October 17, 2018

Vernon Morning Star – October 17, 2018 A tragic airplane crash this summer has delayed completion of an aerial geography mapping project for the Okanagan Valley. The Okanagan Basin Water Board had enlisted a radar technology tool called LiDAR to…

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Tags: aerial mapping project, airplane crash, floodplain mapping, LiDAR

Feds, B.C. provide funds to help Okanagan map its floodplains

Posted on April 17, 2018

Osoyoos Times – April 17, 2018 The Okanagan is receiving $1.45 million in federal and provincial funding to conduct floodplain mapping. The funds were announced last week at a joint news conference in Kelowna with the Okanagan Basin Water Board…

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Tags: flooding, floodplain mapping, LiDAR

Okanagan valley receives $1.45 million for floodplain mapping

Posted on April 10, 2018

Kelowna, B.C. – The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) held a joint news conference with provincial, Okanagan Nation Alliance and local government representatives today to announce significant funding and a unique partnership to help valley communities plan and prepare for…

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Tags: disaster mitigation, flood mapping, flood response planning, flooding, floodplain, floodplain mapping, LiDAR, mapping

Okanagan Basin Water Board Receives $1.45 million for floodplain mapping

Posted on April 10, 2018

Kelowna Capital News – April 10, 2018 The Okanagan Basin Water Board will enlist a radar technology tool to help valley communities plan and prepare for future flood events. The technology is called LiDAR and it creates digital three-dimensional aerial…

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Tags: flood mapping, LiDAR, radar

Okanagan mayors & students join forces to encourage water conservation

Kelowna, B.C. – With the forecast for another hot, dry Okanagan summer, students from École Glenmore Elementary and mayors from throughout the valley joined ... Read more >
Weather Report – May 2019

It’s shaping up to be a dry spring, as predicted. Overall, the snow pillow is behind where we started in 2015, the last big ... Read more >
Okanagan water grants aim to conserve and improve water quality in face of climate change

Kelowna, B.C. – The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) has approved more than $318,000 in funding to 17 projects that will help conserve and ... Read more >
Missed our Water Supply webinar?

The Okanagan Basin Water Board hosted an Okanagan Water Supply Webinar on April 12, to review the current and forecasted water supply for 2019 ... Read more >
April 12 – Water Supply Webinar

This year’s seventh annual Okanagan water supply webinar will be hosted on Friday, April 12th from 11a.m. – 12 p.m. This webinar provides an ... Read more >

Our water future is just beginning
“Patience, time and money accommodate all things.” – Spanish Proverb BC is in the middle of another resource development boom. Water isn’t one of them, but as always, is central to everything. More than 100 years ago, the Water Act was … Continue reading →
Not waiting for Noah
“Planning is best done in advance.” – Anonymous Flying into Calgary at the end of June, everyone on the plane was glued to the windows, staring at the mess of mud and debris from the Great Flood. Eventually, rivers always … Continue reading →
Zebra mussels: scarier than Jurassic Park.
“They’ll clump on rock, they’ll clump in pipe, and they’ll clump mussel-next-to-mussel-atop-mussel in astonishing congregations of as many as 70,000 individuals a square foot” – Sue McGrath It’s hard to get people excited about invisible threats that haven’t arrived yet, but … Continue reading →