There is a Ministry of environment test  water well on Garcia street in Merritt, today pumps are going for an annual test. The person testing it says that it is potable and the rusty color of the test water going through a bucket is because it is stagnate for along time , meaning it does not move. And a rust comes off the casing. The well is not perforated or have screens on the bottom. With no pumping it gets no flow.

There is ground water and surface water to consider in wells, ground water has been filtered well by actions and microbes in the ground . It has less entry of surface water into it. The city spend over two million dollars on another well a couple of years ago with 4 test wells to complement it in testing of levels of the aquifer. Merritt has always had great water, a selling point for the City.

However very little  to non left over to sell ,outside local consumption.

Today in History, March 15th 44 BC

Julius Caesar assassinated in the Roman senate.