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6-month.

THE: GREATER Vancouver Regional, District «GVRD) has
approved sa expenditure of .$2.5~million to permanently
scepuircthe north shaft of the Capilano reservoir water main

which exploded: Dee. 11; 1986.culting water supply to. areas:

‘of Vancouver, the West End and.the North Shore.

GVRD “assistant: engineer: Tom
Heath said: Monday the six-month
Gyvet Will, begin’ in, November,
ter major summer. demands on
North: Shore? water supplies shave
“subsided. : “4

3 Heath: . said GVRD engineers

“consider, the north shalt. whieh: is.

‘dcated) at) the south: -ends cor.

Capilano Read. to be ofthe mast
whote

vulnerable, point vor rhe

“water s¥stemiete. : “
Because the north shaft vor the

‘S0-vear-old Capilane,.main: his

“filed iwadein the peat foi ears:

“Haith said ahere: isdreat potennad,.

Without ploper permanen repays,
‘fot another failure. in che same 4
“Hon of Re main. os + an

“Pring fostheLO86 shaky explassot

siomethe manealso jaded dn P9822:
The Dee. De tupdure, by dar the
MOM serous Loh the “lwo, 100k
GVRDE crews “overs a c
repair The temporary repairs cost
approximately $600,000. 700" .
So During: iitial emergenes repair
“work GVRD engineers discovered
“more ‘racks 130 feet, down in the
: F¥i-foot-¢
co depth 3 : wes es
we An, additional: $120,000), wits:
subsequently invested) by,
GVRDEine formulating plans’ for

the permanent repair’ of the north. :

‘shaft; anda .scidy’of- the} niain’s
overall reliability. we

© cHeath said the: original, tem-
“porary repair, to), the ‘concrete and
© Steel main. consisted of forcing ce-

menu, grouting. «down its-Jength
; 30-foot section.of “main

in. the initial explosion
aced.. Ploy

month: Lo:

meter: shafts 400-foon!

the =

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

. Inthe permanent repair, he said,
project crews will insert a seven-
foct- diameter, sleeve of welded
steel pipe down the leneth ofthe
“north shaft, ; ;

bee,

Hd? nocinterruptions. in! water
Ssupply oto: North Shore? or, Van-
couvern residents orother income:
nienées should result”
Water fromthe Capilano system

eWater” front the
il also becused

‘ta replace any lost water paressure

Casat was wheit the main blew,

“But-chistime we wilbhave:time
“to prepare! Heal said.

He added that the north’ shart is
“unique. in the” Lower) Mainland
walter) system) becitise

treme depth. ©

dneluding © the © 72-foot- diameter
First, Narrows water tunnel which
oruns beneath Burrard Inlet, is, in
‘good. condition, Heath said: , :

ened. ‘delivers’ about | 60
_vallons.: of" water
“Greater Vancouver-areas The'main

normally handles water pressures ©

of 200 pounds per’square inch.

2 oe Heath’ said othe study:-of. the:
y,Capilano Water-main should be of:

“ficially compleied: by “the end’ of

“Though the praject is Sta major -
eruineering “undertukine'’,° Heath >

OF: Hts = exe

“2 Thelrest of the Capilano systeni:

Av. fall capacity, ANG water "tun:
milion ©:
daily “too the. *

“continue into: Septem

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NORTH ‘SHORE Gardens 87 Contest coordinator: Laurie :Smith (right) confers’ with *

contest:judge Mrs.’ Holmes ;outside a. North Shore: residence. ‘Although. judging will’
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