Does North Salt Spring Waterworks District Have A Time Machine?

A typo in a BC Supreme Court pleading suggests they might.


On the 25th of November 2025 a Salt Spring entrepreneur who is now an Islands Trust candidate made a petition to the Supreme Court of British Columbia asking for a judicial review of a decision by North Salt Spring Waterworks District over their refusal of a water connection to a property during a long standing moratorium. Paragraph 8 of that pleading reads:

In or around October 2024, the NSSWD implemented a moratorium on new or upsized water service connections. The policy was updated in 2018 and again in 2025.

Source: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/salt-spring-water.pdf

So:

  • Implemented 2024
  • Updated 2018
  • Updated 2025

The correct implementation date is 2014, a decade earlier. This is made clear in NSSWD's press release of January 30th 2025.

Following the completion of detailed analyses of water supply reliability and water system infrastructure, and several months of community engagement and feedback, the North Salt Spring Waterworks District (NSSWD) Board has approved a partial lift of its water moratorium policy (Moratorium) that has been in place since 2014.

Source: https://northsaltspringwaterworks.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/NSSWD-Moratorium-Press-Release-Jan-2025-FINAL-1.pdf

Just a typo, and a relatively inconsequential one, but one that slipped through the editing process and made its way into a court document. This is not the level of attention to detail that I'd want in a Islands Trustee.


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