A 30-slip marina could be built on Sugar Lake between Vernon and Nakusp, and that has some residents feeling like they’ve been sent up a creek.
Right now, the lake is fairly remote and quiet, but residents like Huguette Allan worry about the marina bringing in noisy powerboats, which could degrade the water quality and upset the fish and birds that live on Sugar Lake and the Shuswap River, which the lake drains into.
“It is one of the last clean watersheds at this latitude, and it’s a very small lake … and it’s one of the last places that people can go to canoe and swim and kayak in peace and safety,” Allan told Radio West host Rebecca Zandbergen. “We have been making it known widely that we are prepared to do whatever we can to keep it clean and keep it quiet.”
CBC News – Oct 29, 2015.
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