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Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The combined demands of the golf course and a higher summer population is putting the pinch on the Point’s water supply and district manager Dan Bourks wants to start looking at options to have a backup source.

“The water’s really tight. It takes a lot of babysitting but we’re making it work,” he told commissioners at their July 8 meeting.

Bourks said the $125,000 the district will spend over the next year upgrading the water control system will simplify the task of juggling domestic demand and water to irrigate the golf course. However, that won’t solve the problem that on a hot summer day demand can exceed what the district’s contract with the Greater Vancouver Water District allows them to pump. “Right now if there’s not enough water they don’t get any,” he said, adding the golf course management had expressed concern several times that their ponds were getting low and the district didn’t have enough to meet domestic demand and still feed the golf course water.
“We’re going to need another supply, and we should start looking at it now,” Bourks said. “I’d like to get a well but I don’t know how feasible it is.” He suggested commissioners begin a rewrite of the district’s water comprehensive plan and focus on long-term supply issues.

Commissioners agreed to keep the plan revision as an ongoing agenda item.