"2. ~ Sunday, April 16, 1989 - Lynn Valley Echo

WASTE MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS ADDRESSED
GVRD drainage, sewage disposal
needs expensive upgrading work

IN REVIEW
1965 SAW the creation of regional districts in the province

of British Columbia.

Before then there was no general
form of local government beyond
the boundaries of municipalities.

The formation of the province’s
29 regional districts allows local
governments to provide services
cooperatively that are better
handled than by each municipality
standing alone ... services such as
delivery of water, disposal of
sewage, hospital capital funding,
ete. — all “‘big ticket,’’ necessary
items.

The Greater Vancouver Regional
District (North Vancouver District
is one of the 17 municipal
members) contains half the pro-
vince’s population and at least that
proportion of challenges and prob-
lems associated with providing
services.

The proof of its effectiveness

will again be tested with im-
plementation of a environmentally
responsible Liquid Waste
Management Plan.

NOW SHOWING

A major undertaking in terms of

time, work and dollars is now
underway in creating 2 master plan
for sewage and drainage disposal
within Greater Vancouver.

We have been exceeding provin-
cial environmental guidelines with
the discharge of effluent into some
receiving waters — hence the ex-
tensive, expensive. Liquid Waste
Management Plan.

Stage I of this study shows that
14 out of the 21 major waterbodies
in the region are in either fair or
poor condition.

To address this issue, regionwide
secondary treatment could cost
$425 million, plus $25 million in
additional operation and
maintenance costs; combined
sewer overfiow controls could cost
$430 million; and urban storm-
water runoff controls could cost
$650 million; a total of about $1.5
billion. In addition, increased
source control enforcement could
cost an extra $1 to $2 million/year.

These costs are equivalent to a
40 to 45 per cent increase in gener-
al municipal taxes (before the
school portion) or an average of

$200 to $250/year/household for
at least 20 years. Of these costs,
about 30 per cent are for sewage

FROM THE

million.
The region is divided into four
sewage areas — the North Shore

MAYOR’S

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treatment upgrading, 30 per cent
combined sewer overflow controls,
and 40 per cent for conirols on
stormwater runoff.

COMING SOON

The Stage I Plan makes recom-
mendations for handling the
region’s priority waste manage-
ment problems and that includes
immediate capital expenditures for
upgrading at Lions Gate Sewage
Treatment Plant estimated at $4.25

: — Clady B

SABRINA McQUAID, 7, had some puppet fun at the Lyon Valley Ecology Centre recently. The ecology
centre had wildlife-related events every day Curing the school Spring Break. Next on the agenda is an auction
of wildlife posters that schvolchildren entered in the ecology centre’s wildlife art contest. Date of the auction
is Sunday, April 30. Call the centre at 987-5922 for more information.

Learn to live ‘in yoga’

May 15
Room. There is no charge.

MEMBERS OF the Vishwa Nir-
mala Dharma Educational Society
have planned three upcoming
meetings at Karen Magnussen
Arena.

“Anyone who is interested in
discovering their true self and
thereby living in an integrated and
balanced way — that is, in yoga —
is invited to attend,’’ states a re-
cent press release,

The meetings will be held on
Mondays, April 17, May 1! and

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at 7 p.m. in the Grouse

For more information on the
educational society, call 922-3382.

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being one. It is also the only one

that does not collect the sludge
coming out of the plant ... rather it
is discharged intc the waters under
Lions Gate Bridge at chosen times
of the day when the tidal. stream
provides maximum dissipation.

The increasing quantities
discharged are now deemed to be
too great. Upgrading will collect
the sludge: but the issues of
dewatering, trucking to storage
lagoons, and lagoon location, have
yet to be resolved.

Costs to North Shore house-
holders for this item will be some
$15/year which doesn’t sound too
bad until we consider this is but
one step of many needed.

In the same vein there’s all that
stormwater run-off that never sees
a treatment plant. Rather it goes
directly from our houses or
we intend to resolve these serious
environmental concerns. I am
committed to seeing a solution.

ADJOURNMENT

Experience is the hardest kind of
teacher. It gives you the test first
and the lesson afterward.

Makes one pause and think
about what we wash and flush
away — day in, day out. It may be
out of sight but it cannot be out of
mind! We have our work cut out
for us over the next several years if
businesses or the roads into a
system which empties into local
creeks and water courses before
making its way to the inlet.

Much of this ‘“‘stuff’? can con-
tribute to the idiopathic liver le-
sions found in harbor bottom fish
as recently reported bya federal
government study.

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