{"id":74646,"date":"2025-08-16T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74646\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:18:09","slug":"city-says-millions-in-upgrades-at-kamloops-water-quality-facility-needed-to-ensure-stable-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74646\/","title":{"rendered":"City says millions in upgrades at Kamloops water quality facility needed to ensure stable water supply"},"content":{"rendered":"

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File photo (image credit – CFJC Today)<\/p>\n

By Michael Reeve<\/p>\n

Water Treatment Plant<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tAug 15, 2025 | 3:01 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

KAMLOOPS \u2014 Earlier this week, Kamloops city council moved forward with alternative approval processes (AAP)<\/a> for four major infrastructure projects in the city. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have step screens, and fish screens, and a bunch of infrastructure at the actual intake that needs to be replaced,\u201d said Greg Wightman, the city\u2019s Utility and Environmental Services Manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo (image credit – CFJC Today) By Michael Reeve Water Treatment Plant Aug 15, 2025 | 3:01…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-74646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}