Sunday, October 14, 2007

Osoyoos Water Forum Website

Hello All,

We now have an Osoyoos Lake Water Science Forum website, with all the presentations and media coverage of the events, hosted by the Okanagan Basin Water Board: http://www.obwb.ca/olwsf/

Please let us know if there are more things you'd like added to this site.

The forward momentum and positive connections developed at the Forum have the power to drive real improvements in Osoyoos Lake water quality.

Anna Warwick Sears
Okanagan Basin Water Board

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Communications with Ken Hall

Ken,

As an attendee to the Osoyoos Water Lake Forum, let me say how much I enjoyed your presence. Your energy and concern and especially your common sense, came across strongly.

In particular, I liked your idea of a measuring well below the septic lagoons at the golf course to be monitored by students. I know the students were excited by the prospect of hands on field work. I talked to Stu Wells (long time old buddy of mine) about the project and he is very interested in driving it forward. If I can do anything in that regard, let
me know.

Congratulations Ken, and keep up the good work.

Yours truly,
Fred Schiller
fred@fredschillerboomgear.com
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Dear Fred:

It would be good to get some students monitoring the quality of the Osoyoos well water.
Over the next few months, I plan to get all of the nutrient data that I can from the Provincial government to see if I can start to understand why the concentration of P in Osoyoos Lake is double that of Okanagan Lake when Okanagan Lake is providing 80% of the water that enters Osoyoos Lake. That means that the other 20% of the water that comes into Osoyoos Lake must be quite contaminated with P.

Cheers,

Ken Hall