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NEWS photo Terry Peters

HANS KRAUSE, operations and maintenance superintendent of the Greater Vancouver
Water District, overlooks the smooth operation of the Cleveland Dam, both literally and

New restaurant gives
. North Van a taste of
South Africa,

is work

to strengthen
weak dam wall —

A BREAK THIROUGH in a weak spot in Cleve-
Jand Dam’s east wall could cause 75 billion litres
of water from. the Capilano River to come
cascading through the retainer walls.

| By CHARLES MAYER |

But Hans Krause, opera-
tions superintendent for the
Greater Vancouver Water
District, says there have been
‘*no problems since the dam
was built and more work is
slated to secure the sensitive
area at some time in the
future.”’

The cast wall of the dam is
sensitive because the wall
edge is above bedrock. But
controlled drainage keeps
the wall in check and 24-
hour monitoring watches for
anticipated problems.

Despite the flaw, Krause
insists the dam is ‘‘a good
safe site.””

Cleveland Dam is not an-
old dam by engineering
standards. The construction
safety factor designed into.
the 1950-built barrier has a
tolerance margin of 10 times
the needed strength.

The absolute pressure on
the dam’s wall is 135
kilograms per square cen-
timetre, but it could withs-
tand pressure of 10 times
that stress,

Cleveland Dam, named
after the GVWD’s first chief
commissioner Dr. Cleveland,
is a gravity-designed struc-
ture.

At its narrowest point it
measures 7.2 metres and at
its widest (at the base) it
measures’ 72 metres. The
dam rises about 97 metres
above the river bottom and
holds back about 24,000-
acre feet of water.

The storage capacity of
the dam’s reservoir is about
75 billion litres of water —
all held back by’ 25,000 ton-
nes of cement and 600 ton-
nes of reinforcing steel.

Capilano Lake covers ap-
proximately 268 hectares of
land which up until dam
construction was a valley of

‘virgin forest.

Cleveland Dam provides a
water supply for areas in
North Vancouver District,
the western part of Van-
couver, Richmond and, dur-
ing some summer months,
Delta.

Together with the
Seymour Falls Dam (a much
smaller 17-metre high struc-
ture) in North Vancouver,

the two provide most of the
domestic water for the met-
ropolitan area.

Krause says Cleveland
Dam can deliver as much as
900 million litres of water a
day to users. However,
average daily consumption is
usually around 73 million
litres a day.

Krause did say though
that the GVWD is planning
to upgrade the domestic
water delivery capacity from -
the dam by installing larger
diameter piping for water
transport.

This would involve, ac-
cording to Krause, replacing
the current !.5-metre
diameter. pipe with a 1.8-
metre main pipe.

Although the project was
to be carried out sometime
during 1986, the project was
put on the backburner due
to Expo 86, Krause says.

The reason for deferring
the work, he says, is because
excavation would not be
popular during the fair.

There have been, other
times when Cleveland Dam
itself wasn't all that popular.

In March, 1981 a scandal
broke out when the Greater
Vancouver Regional District
water board decided to give

See Cleveland
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y DIANE BENTLEY

Overhead, a siren wails.
As she stands in the door-
way, not moving, not know-
ing which way to go, Gail
Burchett, activities director
of Cedarview Lodge in
North Vancouver, spots her
and comes to her side.

“"Hi, Marge, whatcha’ do-
ing?"’ enquires Burchett ca-
sually. Marge (not her real
name) hesitates, bows her

"head and replies, ‘'Connie,

here? I'm looking for Con-
nie.”

Burchett who is used to
this behavior, gently takes
Marge by the arm and Steers
her away from the doorway,

It is an episode that Marge
may repeat 30 times a day.
Each time she wanders off,
Marge will be retrieved and
reassured by one of the at-
tendants.

Marge is among the
300,000 Canadians who are
stricken with Alzheimer’s

leading cause of death in
Canada after heart disease,
cancer and stroke,
Alzheimer’s is gradually
destroying Marge’s mind,
stranding her in a frighten-
ing world where vivid mem-
ortes from long aga collide
with present-day events that
she cannot interpret.

As the disease progresses,
families ‘of victims grow
desperate, and some are torn
apart as they watch a Joved
one hallucinate, forget how

overburdened nursing homes
are ill-equipped to handle
Aizheimer’s patients. The
ones that do accept: them
have often resorted to heavy
medication and physical
restraits to keep them under
control,

Fortunately that approach
is changing as the intermedi-

-ate care industry faces up to

what may be the coutry’s
fastest growing health-care
problem.

Cedarview Lodge, an in-

of Alzheimer’s victims to
better understand the course
of the disease and the need
for institutionalization.

Its policy and practice of
not using physical restraints,
conservative use of drugs,
special activity programs,
and generally giving the res-
ident a sense of still making
choices in their daily fives,
has made Cedarview Lodge
a pioneer in
Alzheimer’s victims.

“Choice is always there

caring for

ly's appreciation.””

What also makes Cedar-
view Lodge successful is the
specialized attention given to
patients, the facility's securi-
ty measures and the wide
variety of therapeutic pro-
grams aimed at keeping pa-
tients happy and connected
to reality.

Flexibility is the key to
handling Alzheimer's pa-

See Cedarview
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