Wind stirs up water advisory

A water-quality advisory issued for West Kelowna’s Pritchard-Sunnyside system after a windstorm this week was short-lived.

The advisory was removed late Friday afternoon.

The windstorm Tuesday night-Wednesday morning stirred up the water near the system’s intake in Okanagan Lake.

Turbid water, the City of West Kelowna explained in a news release, “affects the performance of the chlorine disinfection process.”

During such advisories, children, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems may want to boil their water or find an alternative source, health officials say.