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COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • SEPTEMBER 2017 Perfect attendance


On August 5, Dave Reid, left, a lifetime member of the Chilliwack Plowing Society, presented a plaque to Dugan Montjoy in recognition


of the 20 consecutive years that he has competed in the horse- plowing division of the Chilliwack Plowing Match. Dugan is from Lillooet and was congratulated by fellow competitors from Armstrong, Lillooet and Lynden, WA as well as folks from the Fort Langley Farm Museum and the Heavy Horse Breeders Association. The plowing matches have been a yearly event in Chilliwack for 95 years. SUBMITTED PHOTO


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• expand land use management planning measures.


Heyman said he doesn’t


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any conflict of interest. This is a noted environmental lawyer who understands the issues,” he told Country Life in BC. “He’s doing it on the basis of fact and science.”


Heyman added that even


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certainly pointed to one or two of the large dairy farms in


the area as the primary sources of the contamination,” he said. “Different people in the ministry actually, at different times, came to the same conclusion.”


Several factors BC agriculture minister


Lana Popham took a more nuanced view, however. “As we look at situations


like Hullcar, of course there’s a lot of finger-pointing at the agriculture industry, but we have to consider all areas of pollutants and potential pollutants,” she said. With areas like the North


Okanagan becoming popular destinations for both farmers and retirees from the Lower Mainland and other areas of


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the province, she added that local infrastructure also has to measure up. Steele Springs Water


District draws water from an uncontained portion of the aquifer, a fact that prompted the province to allocate $950,000 to support alternative drinking water sources and fund treatment for domestic well users as well as support environmentally appropriate farming practices in the Hullcar Valley. Popham said that’s the


kind of approach that’s needed. “As we densify in more of our rural areas, they don’t have water systems in place. It’s a concern,” she said.


Ag waste regs coming


by PETER MITHAM VICTORIA – A review of the


province’s handling of aquifer contamination in the Hullcar Valley will support the development of a new regulation for managing agricultural waste. “We definitely look forward


to the recommendations from this review and certainly intend them to be instructive in the final decisions around the agricultural waste control regulation,” BC environment minister George Heyman said in an interview regarding the government’s review of the province’s response to the Hullcar aquifer.


Heyman declined to give a


date for when the long- awaited regulation would be complete “I can’t give you a date


today,” he said. Heyman’s response


maintained a long-standing silence by the province on when it would finalize updates to the regulation, originally adopted in 1992. Updates have been under discussion since 2009. The previous government launched a consultation in 2012 but the environment ministry established “no fixed timeline for this project,” though it assured the public that “regulatory changes … will not occur before spring 2014.” Covering more than


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