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Keeping Kal Lake Blue
With Kalamalka Lake becoming one of the most popular paddleboarding locations in BC, we have naturally seen more activity on the lake year after year. In 2010, we joined forces with SPKL (The Society for the Protection of Kalamalka Lake) and have donated almost $10,000 over the past 11 years to help Keep Kal Blue.
The Kalamalka Classic SUP Festival serves are main fundraiser for our yearly donation and the paddleboard community has become huge advocates for the protection of the lake.
This year’s 10th Anniversary Kal Classic will place the emphasis on protecting the lake from invasive Quagga and Zebra Mussels. Here’s a great video to highlight our cause.
Splash Mob – Protecting Our Freshwater from Protect Our Freshwater on Vimeo.
B.C. currently has a boat inspection program in place, with inspection stations operating from April-October at all border crossings. One of those stations, located at Golden on the Trans Canada Highway, is open 24-hours. The other stations, however, only run during daylight hours. Between April 1st and Sept. 23, 22 mussel-fouled watercraft were intercepted coming into B.C.
Morrice has been calling on the B.C. government to raise more funds and increase all the inspection stations to 24 hours.
“With all those stations closed overnight, it’s a mathematical inevitability that an infested boat is going to come through after hours, launch in B.C. waters, and then it’s game over said Brynne Morrice, the films producer. “Say goodbye to our beaches, our lakeshores, our fish, our clean drinking water, our summer tourism, our property values,” he adds.
