City works, construction receive noise bylaw exemption in Penticton amid heat wave

As heat warnings broad nan Okanagan, nan City of Penticton is making exemptions for workers assigned to building projects, allowing them to activity during cooler hours.

The metropolis issued a connection Sunday greeting advising of a two-week exemption to its sound bylaw for metropolis useful and building projects.

The exemption will let metropolis crews and contractors to commencement activity earlier successful nan day.

Hours during nan exemption statesman astatine 6 a.m., effective Monday.

According to nan city, nan broad exemption will supply safer moving conditions during this play of accrued heat.

On Saturday morning, Environment Canada said nan Fraser Canyon,  Similkameen, Okanagan, Thompson and South Cariboo regions tin expect aggregate days of utmost heat.

The nationalist upwind agency says residents successful those areas tin expect nan mercury to scope nan precocious 30s and perchance debased 40s, pinch overnight lows dipping into nan precocious teens.

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