It’s a tough job but someone has to do it.

Earlier this month, divers from Vernon-based-company Aqua-Bility spent six hours a day for three days clearing debris from the intake of BC Hydro’s Aberfeldie Dam on the Bull River.

Over winter, twigs and branches that are floating in the river slide under the ice and wind up blocking trash racks where water comes into the Aberfeldie penstocks and turbines.

Divers are weighted down, and spend several days loading that debris into a steel box (pictured), which carries the wood out of the river and clears the way to the turbines before spring freshet.

Over the course of the week, about 20 loads of wood (one load is pictured) totalling approximately three tonnes were pulled from the river.

BC Hydro

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