Stump Lake residents are beyond frustrated with another year of flooding and a pair of area Liberal MLA’s say they’re going lean on the Natural Resource Minister to get something done.

Fraser Nicola MLA Jackie Tegart and Kamloops South Thompson’s Todd Stone plan to meet with NDP’s Doug Donaldson in Victoria on behalf of beleaguered home owners.

Although the lake is not in Stone’s riding, he says he has become fully involved. “I was not as intimately involved in this file as Jackie has been up until the last couple of weeks and I first came at it from the highway 5A perspective.”

“Being a former transportation minister, we did a lot of safety upgrades along that stretch between Kamloops and Merritt. You know, the more I dove into it and started talking to folks, the more I realized what’s going on with these folks is just not right.”

Stone says it’s time to move forward on the issue. “While there’s no value, I think, in looking backwards and pointing fingers and trying to assess blame and so forth, at the end of the day you’ve go a whole bunch of residents whose home are inhabitable, whose investments are pretty much gone and all kinds of issues in and around that area due to the high water levels on Stump Lake that need to be resolved.”

Stone says residents have grown tired of everyone passing the buck. “All we’ve seen to this point between EMBC and the Province and the TNRD, everybody’s pointing the finger back at each other and it’s got to stop so Jackie and I are hoping to bring this a head with the minister responsible next and we’ll do that in Victoria in person.”

Donaldson says he understands the anxiety property owners are feeling and promises to work with TNRD officials for a long term solution.