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By Michael Reeve
Water Treatment Plant
Aug 15, 2025 | 3:01 PM
KAMLOOPS — Earlier this week, Kamloops city council moved forward with alternative approval processes (AAP) for four major infrastructure projects in the city.
One of the projects is for upgrades at the Kamloops Water Quality Plant and it totals just shy of $12 million. The city says the investment is needed at the plant, as major parts of the intake are beginning to age out.
“We have step screens, and fish screens, and a bunch of infrastructure at the actual intake that needs to be replaced,” said Greg Wightman, the city’s Utility and Environmental Services Manager.
“It’s at end of life and there is no more replacement for it anymore. A big portion of that cost is just ordering the materials and it’s specialized stuff obviously, there is not a lot of people that are using things like this. So that is what we are trying to there is again get ahead of an issue that could affect our water supply.”