Seymour Falls
Dam seismic job
limits site access

A SEISMIC upgrade al the
Seymour Falls Dam will keep
cyclers, walkers and
rollerbladers at bay weekdays
until mid-November.

By Kate Zimmerman
News Reporter

Contractors are currently mobiliz-
ing their trailers on the site and
access to the public will be denied on
the read between the Rice Lake Gate
and the slab-and-buttress Seymour
Falls Dam from Mondays through
Fridays.

“We'll be pouring concrete walls
bewween the existing buttresses,” said
Mike Boss, project engineer with the
Greater Vancouver Water District.

The walls will be poured perpen-
dicular to the existing buttresses,
lending the dam additional stability
in the event ef a major earthquake.

The dam is fairly secure at pre-
sent and wouid withstand a sizeable
earthquake, Boss said. but each dam
upgrade is intended to fortify the
structure.

if the dam were to collapse as a
result of an earthquake, the residen-
tial and commercial area near the
lower portions of the Seymour River
could be flooded and there would
also be an environmental impact on
the canyon.

The seismic upgrade is being
completed in stages. Boss said, with
this first phase siated to be complet-
ed by mid-November.

It is expected to cost the residents
of the Greater Vancouver Regional

66 The dam is fairly
secure at present and
would withstand a
sizeable
earthquake... 9?

District (GVRD) $2.4 million.

The GVRD is currently looking
into where it is going to oblain an
increased source of water — whether
from the Seymour, Capilano or
Coquitlam reservoirs.

The Seymour Falls Dam current-
ly gets 40% of its water from the
Seymour reservoir, 40% from the
Capilano reservoir, and 20% from
the Coquitlam reservoir.

The difference in cost between
getting water from Seymour.
Capilano or Coquitlam has yet to be
assessed.

Coquitlam might scem the cheap-
est source except that the water there
is also used by B.C. Hydro for hydro
power, which could affect its price.

“We want to look at the most
cost-effective solution.” said Boss.

The next phase of the upgrade
would involve either building a
whole new dam or further bracing
the existing stricture.

If the GVRD goes ithead with all
of the upgrading, the projected cosi
to taxpayers is $20 million.

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