OID Water Outage – this coming Sat Nov 4, 2023 – 8AM-10AM (approx.)

Just a reminder that now that the irrigation season has ended, there will be a water outage for the Osoyoos Irrigation District (OID) on Saturday November 4. This is the day for our annual cleaning of the reservoir before we change over to well water. The reservoir must be empty for it to be cleaned, …

Please ** DO NOT TAMPER ** with water flow control devices

At most non-residential properties within the Osoyoos Irrigation District (OID), flow control devices (FCD) are installed to limit the amount of water that flows to the property in a certain period – such as a maximum level of gallons per minute. This is not done to limit the total amount of water provided to these …

Water outage now rescheduled for Sat. Nov. 26

The planned water outage that had been scheduled for Saturday November 12 and which had to be postponed due to the early snowfall has now been rescheduled for Saturday November 26, weather permitting. Although access to the reservoir to facilitate cleaning is now available, more snow is scheduled for tonight (Nov 16/17) and in any …

Annual irrigation shut-off occurs on October 31

Although we will switch over to well water on November 12 this year (the actual date varies from year to year), the date set for irrigation cutoff is always October 31. After this time, no irrigation – especially agricultural irrigation – can occur. The reason is that after October 31, FortisBC charges us more expensive …

Water shut-off Saturday November 6 – 8AM (or earlier) to 2PM

Next Saturday, November 6, OID water will be shut off so that the reservoir can be cleaned and the water source changed over to (predominantly) well water. In order to clean the reservoir it must be emptied, and due to recent land use changes adjacent to the reservoir, it is no longer possible to drain …