The Province of B.C. will be providing financial assistance to the Town of Oliver to aid in repairs to a large irrigation pipe damaged by a rockslide in January. Credit: Town of Oliver

Oliver irrigation pipe to be repaired after damaging landslide

PENTICTON – A devastating landslide damaged the irrigation system in Oliver earlier this year but it is set to be repaired with the help of provincial funding.

The province and the Town of Oliver will share the $1-million repair bill to fix a section of pipe damaged in the January slide.

Roughly 400 farmers were affected by the incident, including members of the Town of Oliver and the Osoyoos Indian Band.

The province will contribute $525,000 with Oliver providing the remaining $475,000.

The section of pipe damaged by the slide connects water users with an irrigation canal located approximately five kilometres north of Oliver. Installed in 1997, the concrete pipe is more than six feet in diameter and is buried 10 feet underground. It suffered major damage in January when van-sized pieces of rock fell on it. 

To contact a reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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Steve Arstad

I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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