corporate report<\/a> from Surrey\u2019s engineering manager Scott Neuman and public safety manager Brian Edwards, with the water restrictions currently in place Surrey\u2019s residential consumption \u201cremains consistent with regional averages on a per capita basis.\u201d<\/p>\nResidential lawn watering is restricted under Stage 2.<\/p>\n
The Greater Vancouver Water District is responsible for delivering the region\u2019s water, under the Metro Vancouver umbrella. During its June 19 meeting the GVWD board moved to send the City of Surrey a letter requesting that it follow the recommendation to move to stage 3. The GVWD board\u2019s next meeting is set for July 24.<\/p>\n
According to the corporate report, Surrey will monitor its water consumption, system performance, weather forecasts and Fire Services operational requirements. \u201cStaff remain prepared to implement Stage 3 water restrictions if deemed necessary, based on the aforementioned considerations and evolving regional conditions, \u201d the report states.<\/p>\n
Councillor Pardeep Kooner noted during council\u2019s June 29 meeting that Metro Vancouver\u2019s website reports all reservoir levels are at a \u201ctypical\u201d range and tha Metro confirmed it can purchase more water from BC Hydro, from Coquitlam Lake, But Metro says there are constraints in the system \u201cand even if they bought more water they wouldn\u2019t be able to get it to the residents,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The report indicates the decision for moving to earlier than seasonal water restrictions was mostly driven water main construction at Stanley Park (First Narrows) behind its April-May schedule, compounded by a \u201clower than normal\u201d snowpack and a dry summer forecast.<\/p>\n
That work is expected to be completed by the end of July.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo are there projects that are delayed that are affecting our water here in the city of Surrey?\u201d she asked. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t come from Coquitlam Lake, so is there another project that they\u2019re working on, tunnel-wise, upgrade, through Coquitlam Lake that is impacting our access to water?\u201d<\/p>\n
The report from Neuman and Edwards states that Metro Vancouver draws water from three sources: Capilano Lake, Seymour Lake, and Coquitlam Lake, with the latter managed by BC Hydro, \u201cwith the majority of water provided to Surrey from the Coquitlam Lake and Seymour Lake sources via water main crossings near Annacis Island, Port Mann Bridge, and Barnston Island\u201d while the First Narrows water main impacts flow from Capilano and Seymour lakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso I was looking at their drinking water management plan 2026, that just got updated this year, and it says that their regional target is to keep an annual average water use to a max of 320 litres per capita per day by 2035,\u201d Kooner continued. \u201cSo when we\u2019re sitting at 235 litres during some of the hottest times during the year, we\u2019re almost 100 litres per person under consumption from what their own targets say.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayor Brenda Locke said the report \u201canswers a lot of questions and misinformation that we\u2019ve heard in the public, especially with regard to water consumption in Surrey as compared to other places in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n
She noted Metro has Surrey\u2019s population numbers \u201cway off,\u201d at 645,506 as opposed to the actual 730,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s by design or just they don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the population figure corrected, according to the report Surrey\u2019s water usage is 235 litres per capita, not 266 litres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey report says city\u2019s per capita water use \u2018consistent\u2019 with region average Published 11:02 am Friday, July 3,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-783812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783812","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=783812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}