This area is dotted with relics of times gone by. Immediately above our property is one of the last remaining stretches of the old wooden water flumes that used to service the entire Okanagan Valley. They carried irrigation water down the valley and were an amazing engineering feat because of the very gradual and consistent slope in their construction. When I first climbed to this structure in the late 70's, there was water gently coursing downward to bring life to the orchards on the hillsides. Today, this 100 metre section is still standing proud and strong, but is the last of its kind and is as dry as the bleached bones found just above it along the old cattle trails.
Posted on Sept 4, 2008
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I think that water flowed into the mid-1980's. I remember hiking up to put our hands in there!
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