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SUNSHINE FALLS and Woodlands area residents can look
forward to a municipal water supply and permission to
build a private access road to their community on the shores
of Indian Arm, following a decision Monday night by
North Vancouver District Council.

lan Macdonald and Cindy Hor-
ton of the Woodlands and Sun-
shine District Ratepayers Associa-
tion were jubilant when council
gave approval in principie to ex- to the areas, pending further
tension of the district's watermain district staff study of provincial

By PATRI RAYNARD
Contributing Writer

Complete. week's

July 12, 1989 News 985-2131

fund sharing and a meeting with
residents on Aug. 14.

Mayor Marilyn Baker told
council: ‘*f am personally commit-
ted to helping these people with
their water problem.”’

Sunshine and Woodlands area
residents have been lobbying for a
solution to serious water supply
problems in the area since they
were advised last year to pre-boil
and disinfect all drinking and

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bathing water taken from area
creeks following the discovery of
elevated coliform levels.

A subsequent consultant’s report
recommended the areas, which
currently draw their water from
area creeks, be connected to
municipal v-ater supplies.

But council’s decision to allow
construction of a private access
road ran counter to research
analyst Kathy Hay’s recommenda-

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CARLO FELICELLA ciips s Mower off a fuchsia plant in his award-winning garden. Felicella’s garden is one of eight North Shore Garden Contest entries featured in this year’s
North Shore gardea tour. The event is scheduled for Sunday, July 30 from 10 u.m. to 4 p.m, The North Shore Garden Contest,
wader way. Local gardeners can enter anti! July 31. For more information about the tour or the contest call 986-9141,

sponsored by the three North Shore municipalities, is

APPROVAL IN PRINCIPLE TO WOODLANDS, SUNSHINE FALLS

Water, road promised to
isolated NVD communities

tion against approval of the road.
In her report to municipal plan-
ner Kai Kreuchen, Hay warned
that a road ‘‘could give rise to an
increased need for municipal pro-
tection services,’’ as well as
threaten the rural nature of the
isolated Indian Arm community.
“A private road with a lock

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