UTILITIES
Savary has few utilities, you have to make your own.
Telus provide landlines.
FIBRE OPTIC DUE 2027- OLD SCHOOL 'LAND LINE' PHONES WILL BE OBSOLETE.
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Internet, tether to cell phones, satellite and 'line of site' options.
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Savary Guy, Ollie Linsley's local RAINCOAST NETWORKS .
A reliable practical internet option - 604-362-9940 / raincoastnet@gmail.com
TWINCOMM , based on Cortes Island - "Clink"
Recently acquired by Raincoast !
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Rogers & Telus Hubs provide reasonably priced gigabytes.
T.V. Satellite Systems ( still possible to get a couple of stations with a digital aerial.)
Starlink works here.
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Water
Water, Savary Shores has the Island's only Community Water System .
Otherwise it's wells ( mostly drilled ) , sandpoints are viable at Indian Point and Along Malasapina Promenade.
There are some high areas where a 'perched aquifer' makes dug wells feasible.
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Propane is the 'workhorse' of Savary. Cooking, Hot Water and Refrigeration.
Regular delivery ( year round by Brackenwood Propane ).
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Electricity; Generators, Solar Panels ( batteries & inverters )
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Gasoline- There is a 'gas depot' at the corner of Patricia Crescent ( BY THE ONE MILE MARKER ) & Vancouver Boulevard.
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Gas cans with owners names ( and addresses , high incidence of duplicate names here) on them
are left there empty and filled by Lund Water taxi.
