18 initiatives funded throughout three regional districts
The Okanagan Basin Water Board is dishing out $300,000 worth of funding to organizations in the Okanagan.
18 projects will be funded with the cash, which comes from tax revenue collected by the region's regional districts.
Ten of those were for projects based in the Central Okanagan, with four each in the North and South regions.
Kelowna will get $30,000 toward a source water protection plan, which is still being formalized.
Once complete, it'll be presented to Interior Health, and include actions and timelines to maintain water quality in the city.
Another $25,000 is going to the Mission Creek Restoration Initiative, which was formed in 2008 in an effort to restore fish and wildlife species to the creek, among other maintenance-related goals.
The Westbank First Nation will see $29,500 for monitoring and assessments in Trepanier Creek.
Peachland is getting a $13,000 piece of the pie so it can study the potential of further landslides at Law Creek, which was affected last year.
And $20,000 will be for the region's collaborative conservation officers to study the effects of boating on the drinking water in Wood Lake and Kal Lake.
The grant money was approved at a Board meeting a couple weeks ago.
