Water intake testing on the North Thompson last step before emergency system ready

“It’s a three-stage component, so we’ve flowed water from the North Kamloops reservoir back to the high lift pump station beside our water plant,” noted the city’s utility services manager Greg Wightman.

“Then we test the actual intake structure as far as drawing water from the river into the intake, then we chlorinate it and made sure the intake was good for potable water and we’ve introduced potable water to the intake and we’ll be pumping water from the intake to the North Kamloops reservoir.”

The city says there are no health impacts from what could look like cloudy drinking water. If there are no hiccups with testing, the new system will be officially ready for an emergency.

“If the testing goes well, and the components of the system are functioning as they should, then the intake is essentially there and is our emergency back-up and we just enter into the monthly maintenance and operations we’ll have to do,” said Wightman. “Things like running the pumps on a monthly basis, but the future maintenance we’ll be doing won’t impact any water users.”

by Chad Klassen

Water intake testing on the North Thompson last step before emergency system ready

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