LETTER – What the world needs now is more rip rap in the river
Noble Creek Irrigation System intake area where the infrastructure has been removed. (Image: City of Kamloops)
Maybe council can answer the question, do more fish live on the outside of a curve or on the inside of a curve in a river?
If the answer is the inside of the curve then maybe rip rap on the outside of it will not damage fish habitat.
Maybe council can tell fisheries to go fish themselves and apply rip rap at or near Noble Creek to save infrastructure and farmers.
CLINT PRICE
Rayleigh
ArmchairMayor.ca 
The city’s reasons for closing the water intake seem fishy. The excuse that the intake was contributing to land loss on surrounding properties is moot: the river has been taking land from those properties forever. The excuse that taxpayers can’t afford to help support the intake is suspect: a few years ago, taxpayers paid for a new $10 million “emergency” water intake to be built near Westmount. Why couldn’t the city have remediated the Noble Creek intake, which could have served as an emergency supply and also helped area farmers at a much lower cost? Also, city taxpayers support the many groundwater pumping stations needed to keep Aberdeen from sliding down the hill. If taxpayers should only support infrastructure that helps all, then why are they helping out Aberdeen with this development subsidy? Also, the city is concerned about wildfire–we all are–so why make a move that will guarantee a fire hazard as all the fields dry up? Finally, food security is becoming a major issue, so why would our city choose to kneecap those who are providing it to our community?
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