Kelowna, Osoyoos Flooding Holy DIKES!!!!

Floodplain Maps by Region - Province of British Columbia

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Region 7 - Omineca Peace

 Okanagan River and Skaha Lake: Osoyoos to Penticton*

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Design Brief

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If you are looking for what's in the news on flooding in British Columbia, and where, then here you go with the source of the database on creeks and rivers that require dikes, displayed in Google Earth.

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Osoyoos Times

“We might like to be able to magically make the water disappear,” Symonds said. “The only way to get it out of the lake is to have the gates (at Zosel Dam) open and the elevation of the lake drive the water out.”

Wikipedia:

Zosel Dam is a dam in the U.S. state of Washington that blocks the Okanogan River to create the Osoyoos Lake. The dam was built as part of the larger Osoyoos Lake International Water Control Structure, a joint venture of the Washington State Department of Ecology and the British Columbia Ministry of the Environment. The dam was designed by the Canadian firm Acres International Limited and built by the American firm Rognlins Inc.

Similkameen River in Canada from the west to east drains into the USA below the Zozel Dam  KML  is in flood conditions too.

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USA Zozel Dam backs up Osoyoos Lake:    KML File

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Dusting off a 40 year old Federal report on Kinder Morgan: 'West Coast Oil Port Inquiry' included BC '3 existing refineries'

In the 1978 version of the proposed Trans Mountain Pipe Line aka Kinder Morgan there were supposed to be three refineries in Burrard Inlet that would justify the volume required for their expansion plans.   The reality in 2018 is the bulk of the petroleum products deviates at Sumas and heads to the US west coast's Cherry Point.  The new, and improved, pipe line is of little benefit to British Columbians when we are continued to be held captive by Ottawa and Alberta.  Where's the benefit for us when he have to pay a higher toll on our needs, of petroleum products, the highest in Canada. 

 1978  West Coast Oil Port Inquiry Statement of Proceedings

Page 8      Issues  Facing the Inquiry

My terms of Reference authorize me to inquire into the environmental, social and navigational safety aspects of oil port proposals and the general public concerns about oil tanker traffic on the west coast of Canada.  There are no inconsequential matters.  I am not to prepare a mere cataloque of concerns or an etiquette of environmental "do's and don't".  Rather, this Inquiry involves what many residents of British Columbia see as life and death issues.  These residents are not extremists.  A great many ordinary citizens of this province are apprehensive.  So far fears about oil spill on this coast are based mostly on fictional scenarios, many of will no doubt prove to be exaggerated when all the evidence is heard. These fears are nonetheless real.   Moreover, I cannot now set these concerns at rest, because I have not been satisfied thus far that a major oil spill in British Columbia coastal waters is unlikely or without the potential for catastrophic consequences.

Because these concerns about a Major oil spill cannot be dismissed, this Inquiry is not merely about the mitigation of adverse environmental, social and navigational safety impacts --    it is about whether an oil port should be built at all!

Page 58

Containment procedures are effective only if deployed quickly, and the equipment only performs satisfactorily in a limited range of wind and current conditions.  Clean-up technology is primitive.

One witness stated only half jokingly that the greatest recent advance in technology that he was aware of was the substitution of long-handled rakes for short-handled ones! 

While detailed evidence about the methods of containment and clean-up is planned to be called in a subsequent phase of the formal hearings, I received first-hand accounts of the efforts to deal with the 20,000 gallon oil spill which occurred at Steveston last August.  At the community hearing we were shown slides depicting the deployment of a boom and the labour of sopping up spilled oil from a skiff using mats of absorbants.  I was given a view from a skiff from a fish boat and could see that the clean-up did not cope with oil saturating the rocky shoreline and clinging to the pilings and beams of docks and buildings.  Polluted march grasses had been dealt with by close-cropping and it was unclear whether the cure or the disease was the greater calamity.

  I cite this evidence to make the point that I am not at all satisfied at this stage in the Inquiry that the Government of Canada is organized to deal effectively with oil spills. There was evident confusion and delay in response to the Steveston spill.  It was disconcerting to discover that at Sooke, a tourist, fishing and logging community on the Strait of Juan de Fuca dependent on a natural harbour of unique beauty, no one could discover from the authorities whether there was any plan for community response to an oil spill or even who would be in charge.

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..... At the community hearing we were shown slides depicting the deployment of a boom and the labour of sopping up spilled oil and a skiff using mats of absorbents.  I was given a view of the spill from a fish boat and could see that the clean-up did not cope with oil saturating the rocking shoreline and clinging to the pilings and beams of docks and buildings.  Polluted marsh grasses had been dealt with by close-cropping and it was unclear whether the cure of the disease was the greater calamity.

Page  85

If Kitimat is to become a major North American oil port moving Alaskan oil to U.S. markets it would be placed under the Canada-U.S. Transit Pipeline Treaty brought into force October 1st, 1977.  That treaty is based on two basic principles, uninterrupted transmission of hydrocarbons and non-discrimination.

In the treaty each nation has agreed that it shall not impose any fee, tax or other monetary charge for the use of a pipeline transmitting American hydrocarbons unless it also charges such fee or tax to similar pipelines in its own country.

Page 88

Even if the desirable Canadian energy policy is to construct an oil port at Kitimat, this project should be rejected if the oil spill risks are too high, just as the Americans have rejected Puget Sound locations for transshipment port facilities.

Page 117

 ... this Inquiry is directed to examine social and economic impacts as well as environmental impacts, and is to study navigational safety and general public concerns about west coast tanker traffic

 Page 112

The second proposal was by Trans Mountain Pipe Line Co. Ltd, which operates the pipeline system that brings Alberta oil from Edmonton to WEST COAST REFINERIES.  Trans Mountain's partner in this proposal was the Atlantic Richfield Co.  (ARCO) which operates a major refinery at Cherry Point, Washington, and is also one of the major producers in the north slope oilfield in Alaska.  This proposal was to deliver oil to expanded ARCO docking facilities at Cherry Point, just a few miles south of the Canada-U.S. border.  The Trans Mountain pipeline system would then be engineered to enable it to receive offshore crude, deliver it to the refineries in the Puget Sound region, and also deliver it into the Trans Mountain system.  This system would operate on an alternating-flow basis to carry the offshore crude oil to Edmonton where is could enter the INTERPROVINCIAL PIPE LINE system for delivery to the northern tier states.  The SCHEME was to continue the flow of Alberta crude oil to British Columbia refineries for part of each month and to reverse the flow for the remainder of the month.

Page 117

The unique characteristic of this type of inquiry is that it is CENTERED ON A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT --- in the Berger Inquiry, a northern natural gas pipeline, and in this case a west coast crude oil port.  The novelty is not that hearings have been held into a development project:  in the case of pipelines, the National Energy Board has conducted public hearings into the feasibility of oil and gas pipeline proposals since the Board was established under the National Energy Board Act in 1959.  What is different about the new project-oriented inquiries is the broad ranging scope of their terms of reference.  In requiring an assessment of ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, these terms of reference can be seen to have their roots in the heightened environmental consciousness that swept North America in the 1960's and, for the United States, manifested itself in the requirement for impact assessment contained in the NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT, 1969 (NEPA).  Indeed, the terms of reference of this Inquiry are even broader in scope than the mandate of that Act because this Inquiry is directed to examine social and economic impacts as well as environmental impacts, and is to study navigational safety and general public concerns about west coast tanker traffic.

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The following persons (204) appeared before the Inquiry: (Are Today's concerned citizens related ....)

Victor	Adolph
Sharif	Ahmed
Kathleen	Andersen
Johnny	Andrew
Mary Lou	Andrews
Greg	Arnold
L.C.	Audette
Arthur	Bain
Louisa	Basil
Steven	Basil
Wendy	Bender
Veronica	Bikadi
Edgar	Birch
Trevor	Bishop
Sandra	Bourque
Gary	Bousquet
H. Kent	Bowden
Dan	Bowditch
Forbes	Boyd
Lee	Boyko
Wayne	Bradley
Dr. William	Brewer
Jack	Brooks
Herbert	Buchanan
Ian	Burneet
Shirley	Busch
Wolfgang	Busch
L.J.	Bush
A.C.	Campbell
Dr. Roy	Carlson
Cyril	Carpenter
Fred	Carpenter
Steve	Carpenter
Jim	Carr
Maxwell	Cheyne
Carol	Clark
Cathy	Clark
John	Clark
George	Cotterill
Frank	Cox
Harvey	Currie
John	Daly
Henry	Dan
Owen	Davies
Ron	Denman
Margaret	DeWees
Harry	Diamond
Fred	Dobbs
Henry	Droege
Robert H.	Ferguson
Duncan	Finlay
Warren	Freeborne
Gerald	Gabriel
Gary	Gallon
Virginia	Gareau
Kanwal	Gill
Philip	Gladstone
George	Graves
Frank	Gray
Pat	Green
Douglas	Hagerman
Ken	Hall
Tom	Henly
Aloysius	Henry
Marc	Hershman
Bernard	Heskin
Ian	Hilton
Walter	Ironside
Michael	Jackson
Faith	Jacobsen
Gunnar	Jacobsen
Bill	James
Susan	James
William	Jarvie
John	Jensen
Gladys	Joe
Adrian	Jones
Johnnie	Jones
Joe	Joseph
Rose	Joseph
Archie	Kaario
Godfrey	Kelly
Hoss	Kristinsson
John	Ladislaus
Otto E.	Langer
Gordon	Larkin
Martina	Larochelle
Charles	Lean
Bernice	Leech
Mike	Leech
Walter	Leech
J.M.	Leeming
Theodore	LeGros
Ronnie	Lester
Ira	Liebowitz
Lavina	Lightbown
Edward	Lipsett
Charlie	Mack
Norman	McPhee
Bruce	MacRae
Flora	Manion
Paul	Manson
George	Manuel
Daphne	Marlatt
William	Mathews
Barry	Mawhinney
Bobby Javamanga	Mellors
Doug	Miller
Edith	Moore
John	Moore
Julie	Moore
Roger	Moore
Johnny	Morgan
Jo-Ann	Morris
W.S.G.	Morrison
David	Morton
Derek	Morton
Bert	Mugford
Albert	Nelson
Edwin	Neuman
Frank	Niishi
Ernie	Novakowski
Bert	Ogden
Rick	Olding
George	Olsen
Ralph	Overgaard
Maxine	Pape
Paul	Paquin
Ray	Parfitt
Katherine	Pascal
Archie	Patrick
Wayne	Patterson
Will	Paulik
Charles	Perkins
William	Perrine
Stan	Persky
John	Person
Benjamin	Peters
Ray	Phillips
Ross	Pitre
Steve	Point
Michael	Press
Roland	Priddle
John	Prichard
Victor	Reese
Ron	Richards
Wilf	Rigter
Arnold	Ritchie
Baptiste	Ritchie
Frank	Rivers
Jean	Robison
Charles	Roe
Rosie	Ross
William	Ross
Larry	Rumsby
Charles	Rushton
Jim	Rushton
Gerald	St. Martin
Tom	Sampson
Doug	Sandberg
Douglas	Sanders
James	Scotchman
John P.	Secter
Dave	Serry
Ted	Seward
Evelyn	Shintah
Bill	Sigurgeirson
Paul	Sigurgeirson
Peter	Simon
James	Simpson
Maureen	Simpson
Dr. Richard	Stace-Smith
Rose	Stage
Cliff	Stainsby
Lloyd	Starr
Helbert	Stavenes
Homer	Stevens
Harold	Steeves
Kathy	Stewart
John	Stgant
Don	Taylor
Saul	Terry
Eddie	Thevarge
George	Thom
Karl	Thomas
Gordon	Thomson
Walter	Tickson
Ian	Todd
Norma	Turner
Dr. James	Tyhurst
Eric	Wang
Bob	Ward
John V.	Watkins
Dr. Ruth	Weiner
Marietta	Wells
Larry C.	Wiese
Arnold	Williams
Gay	Williams
John	Williams
Lorna	Williams
Mary	Williams
Derek	Wolff
Jim	Wright
Alan	York

I sure wish that today's un-housers of Metro Vancouver could get a handle on their parents scrimping and saving of the 1980's

When the 1980's rolled around along with escalating oil prices from overseas, interest rates were driven sky high on the supply lines to the north american market which were unable to supply our own needs then.  Here we are again. For a country such as Canada not refining our own resources .....  benefits outfits like Kinder Morgan and their fellow American based in their outpost of Calgary.

An oh yeah... Edmonton  too.

August 1981  the keys to houses were being accumulated on an hourly basis by the lending institutions with no one to pick up the tab.   No jobs too.  Restraint Premier Bill Bennett was useless, his vision to balance his Budget was to sell BC Rail.

April 16, 1974	10.50%
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Gordon Campbell introduces the HST to solve his major deficit