About the Mirror Lake Water Users Community (MLWUC)
A water users' community (WUC) is a group of six or more water licensees, each with their own licence(s), who create and maintain a community system to store and deliver water to their respective places of use. Water users' communities are incorporated and named by the Comptroller of Water Rights. The Water users Community is responsible for maintaining the annual Community Permit from Interior Health, whilst individual licensee members are responsible for the payment and upkeep of their own licences with Front Counter, BC.
Please be advised that at this time, the community is on a Boil Water Advisory and all water for human consumption must be boiled before ingesting.
There is an annually assessed fee for each water licence that is supplied by the MLWUC system. The fee is determined as per the guidelines set out in the Water Users’ Community Act. The method and rate is voted on by the members of the MLWUC at the Annual General Meeting and the resulting Assessment Roll is submitted to the water Controller for confirmation.
The original reservoir dam and piping continues to be maintained by the community. The costs of an annually agreed maintenance and operations plan are incorporated into the fees used to determine the Assessment Roll.
The MLWUC consists of members of the community who hold active water licences as set out in the Water Users’ Community Act, and is a non-profit volunteer-based community, governed by the Water Users’ Community Act and a member approved set of Bylaws. The elected Board of Directors hold monthly board meetings as well as host an Annual General Meeting in which members are encouraged to participate. We have active members of our community who also volunteer their time and efforts to help maintain our water system, if you would also like to help the community, please feel free to contact one of the members of the Board.
New owners of properties within the Mirror Lake Community are encouraged to advise the Board of their ownership so they can receive information about maintenance, and administration matters as soon as possible. Download the New Member Application form to begin the process.
For more information about Water User Communities in British Columbia, please visit the Government of B.C website.