Guests raise concerns about water availability on Calgary Stampede grounds

The basking upwind isn’t keeping anyone away, but immoderate Calgary Stampede guests are raising concerns astir nan options to get drinking water connected nan grounds.

“We tried to find it online,” said Joe Labrenz, who spent Tuesday astatine nan parkland pinch his family. “Not a batch of accusation astir wherever nan water bottle refilling position is, truthful it was very difficult.”

The Labrenz family was good prepared, pinch ample jugs of crystal water, but pinch temperatures reaching 30 C, nan mobility will beryllium nan expertise to refill their bottles.

“We walked by that 1 (water fountain) there, that’s really we knew wherever it was,” Labrenz explained. “But there’s not capable accusation to fto families cognize wherever nan h2o stations are astatine nan Stampede grounds.”

There are filling stations astatine nan BMO and Nutrien centres, on pinch nan Big Four and Grandstand buildings, but they aren’t marked connected a representation and location are only a fistful of h2o fountains passim nan grounds extracurricular of nan building.  The h2o fountain successful nan BMO position draws large lines.

“We asked 3 people, and they kept saying spell down to nan extremity of nan hallway and we yet recovered it but we though there’d beryllium a batch more,” said Dave Ladner.

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“We haven’t recovered immoderate connected nan grounds yet,” added his wife, Joanne.

Water is disposable to acquisition connected nan midway, and nan h2o stations connected nan grounds are free to capable up bottles.