Douglas Lake case re-opened for short time with new evidence
KAMLOOPS — A battle over two public lakes in the Nicola Valley resumed on Friday at B.C. Supreme Court, more than three months after the Nicola Valley Fish and Game Club toured the Douglas Lake area with the cattle company and Justice Joel Groves.
The club is the defendant in the case over public access to Minnie and Stonie Lakes, and on Friday had eight photos accepted as new evidence in the trial. The club took the photos while walking around the Douglas Lake property on May 25, two days after the official tour.
On the initial tour, staged on May 23, Joe Gardner, general manager of the Douglas Lake Cattle Company, toured the group to a diversion on the property. He claims the diversion, which the cattle company built, runs into Stoney Lake.
However, the fish and game club objects that notion, and two days later took the pictures to show that, in fact, there are natural creeks that run into Stoney Lake.