Fort St John’s only bulk water station in the city is experiencing intermittent issues with some of their commercial bays.
City staff issued a service notice informing bulk water station users that bays two, three, four, and five, are currently being troubleshot at the 116 Street dispensing station. On a typical day, when the station is fully operational, there are six bays available for commercial users and two for residential purposes.
People who access the bulk water stations for residential use can also access it at the Charlie Lake water station, which is strictly for non-commercial use.
The issues are only impacting the commercial bays at the station by Ma Murray Elementary School- these users pay a minimum monthly flat fee of $100 to the city to access the station, with an additional fee of $15 for each operator pin.
This pin is what the user must enter in the water outlet’s keypad, after inputting their operator number. Commercial users can fill up to 40,000 litres of water at once.
Bulk water stations offer a supply of clean, potable water. Typically, when used for residential purposes, the user is in a rural area, where they can only access well water. Using the stations allows them to have a bulk supply of drinking water.
People accessing the stations for commercial use likely are not drinking the tens of thousands of litres of water, instead they likely to need the water for their work.
