Tuesday’s windstorm affected 10 B.C. Ferries routes as high winds kept much of the fleet — from Haida Gwaii to the Southern Gulf Islands — tied up in dock. Most sailings on the three major routes. . .
VANCOUVER Residents of a regional district on Vancouver Island have been instructed to boil their drinking water after heavy precipitation in recent days overwhelmed their local water system. The Comox Valley Regional District issued a boil water notice Saturday afternoon, citing high turbidity levels in Comox Lake and the Puntledge River caused by intense snow and rainfall. High turbidity can interfere with the chlorination process used to disinfect the drinking water for the 45,000 residents served by the Comox Valley water system, the regional district said in its notice. All users of the water system - including residents of the City of Courtenay, the town of Comox and the surrounding areas of the Comox Valley - are instructed to boil their drinking water for one minute at a rolling boil.