Woodbury Village Water System

System Description and Governance

This system was created in 1985 to service the Woodbury Village development. The Woodbury Village Services Society took ownership in 1988 and operated the system as a community until 2012. The Regional District took over operations of the Woodbury Village Water System in January 2012.
Community representation is provided by a volunteer Water System Community Advisory Committee.

Annual Drinking Water Information

• Woodbury Village Water System 2024 Annual Drinking Water Information Brochure

Size and Number of Connections

This water system has 41 connections.

Location

The Woodbury Village Water System is located on Woodbury Village Road along Highway 3A between Ainsworth Hot Springs and the Village of Kaslo. This system is in RDCK Electoral Area D.

Source

The source for this water system is Kootenay Lake.

Treatment

A upgraded Water Treatment Plant was completed in May 2024. All water treatment components are located within the Water Treatment Plant building. Surface water is extracted from Kootenay Lake and passed through a media filtration system, which removes suspended solids and reduces turbidity to below 1 NTU. Filtered water then travels through the UV reactors to eliminate Giardia and Cryptosporidium. Chlorine is then injected into the filtered water to enhance water disinfection. Contact tanks provide retention time for further reduction of viruses. The treated water is then sent into the Woodbury Village distribution system.

Storage

The Woodbury Village system includes a storage reservoir with a 60,000 gallon capacity.

Distribution System

The estimated length of the distribution system is 1,800 metres of 6-inch PVC piping.

Fire-Fighting

There are no approved fire hydrants on this system; however, residents do have their own fire-fighting equipment and protocol for the area for which they use the system’s standpipes.
Although too far to provide home insurance benefit, fire coverage is provided by the Balfour Harrop Fired Department and Kaslo Fire Department.

Significant Issues

The Woodbury Water System has been subject to recurring Total Coliform bacteria hits. Consumption level chlorine continues to be added to the distribution system.
The water storage reservoir was operated only partially full for a number of years due to structural concerns. Reservoir structural banding was completed in 2019 to allow the reservoir to be operated at full capacity.

Asset Management Planning

An Asset Management Plan is complete and updated annually. The Asset Management Plan identifies required asset replacements over a 25 year and 100 year period and identifies annual contributions to water system reserves required to fund the replacements.

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