The Village of Ashcroft will be addressing an issue in its new water treatment plant.

Mayor Barbara Roden says with last year’s spring snow melt dragging on which was followed by a wet spring, a lot of sand was getting into the machines from the high-flowing Thompson River.

“So we’ve identified the need for a sand separator which is going in now, which will keep that stuff from getting into the machinery and clogging stuff up,” Roden says.

“And that was something that just wasn’t identified as an issue. We felt that we had was going to be fine to cope with the freshet, and last year was just so extraordinary and in terms of the length of it and just how much turbidity there was.”

Roden says the sand separator will be paid for with grant money from the federal government, leftover from the grant that was allocated to build the water treatment plant in the first place.

The plant cost $8.2 million to build, and was the largest capital project in the village’s history.