EIGHT PIPE bridges were recently loaded on a barge at North Vancouver’s Dilcon Dillingham Projects Ltd. yard for delivery to the Hewe Sound pulp and paper mill at Port Mellon. Constructed in the Dilcon Dill- ingham yard, the bridges are up to 103 feet long and weigh 32 tons each. They will be used in the ongoing upgrading of the Howe Sound pulp mill. HEWS phote Mike Wekafield High bids force cancellation of wave pool facility tenders TENDERS HAVE been cancelled for the multi-million- dollar wave pool aquatic facility planned for North Van- couver District’s Karen Magnussen Recreation Centre after the district resgived only three tenders on the project. The project went to tender July 14 with a working budget of $4.5 million. Of that figure, $3.9 mii- lion was allocated to construction. But the best bid received came in at close to $5.8 million. With inflation in the construc- tion industry running anywhere from five to eight per cent and the impending implementation of the proposed nine per cent federal general sales and services tax, pro- ject delay is costing money. Said North Vancouver District Aid. Craig Clark, the council member heading the technical committee that has overseen the pool project since 1987: ‘‘We're regrouping with the intention of going back to tender as soon as possible. We'd like to try to bring the cost into line and get a bid which is competitive. We hac a number of bids. But of the bids received, only two of them were serious bids. Non cf them were really based o:. cempetitive sub- trades. None of t.em had really gone through the proper scrutiny process. They were guessing on figures quoted.’* Clark anticipates receiving more competitive tenders on the project By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter the second time around. “Usually a tender will come in with at least two or three subtrade bids. That didn’t happen,’’ he said. ‘‘But in the light of the fact that we didn’t have that situation, maybe the fall and winter market will change that. In the summer people were too busy to look at new projects.”” If the new tenders are high again, Clark said the project could be postponed unt next year’s new capital budget comes in. Or the en- tire project could be shelved. Clark charges Ald. Ernie Crist with throwing up obstacles to the timely development of the project in the name of saving trees at the recreation centre site. ‘At the insistence of Ald. Crist, the project has been delayed with more and more reviews. It’s delayed the project by at least six months,"’ Clark said. ‘‘The issue that Ald. Crist brought forward, which has probably cost the tax- payers $2 million, is the fact that he didn’t want the addition to go on the southeast side of the ex- isting building, but wanted it to go on the northwest side,’’ he added. But Crist said he has champi- oned development of the Karen Magnussen aquatic addition since serving as a member of the recre- ation commission, ‘‘To accuse me of delays is ultimately crazy. What happened is the ratepayers, the cit- izens of Lynn Valley, the planning department, the Advisory Planning Commission unanimously urged council to develop the site towards the northwest.’’ But, Crist said, the project ar- chitect recommended that the ad- dition be located to the southeast side of the existing building to save money. “That was provided that you don’t put a value orn parkland. It’s like saying parkland is free. How can anyone be so stupid as to say parkland is free? Land is not free — period,” he said. A public hearing was held on the siting issue about a year ago. Said Crist, ‘‘After the public hearing there was a vote six to one against me. How can anyone say I held it up? They refused ic listen to the public.”” The Karen Magnussen aquatic facility comes up for in-camera discussion Monday at North Van- couver District council. NORTH Vancoaver District Mayor Marilyn Baker ...packaging blamed. 3 - Friday, October 20, 1989 - North Shore News WEST Vancouver Mayor Don Lanskaii ...cake the bus. Pollution cleanup starts at home, WV forum told CHANGES IN lifestyle by the general public represent the first step needed to improve the environment, a West Van- couver forum on pollution was told on Sunday night. The forum, entitled, ‘‘What Solution for North Shore Pollu- tion?,”’ was organized by the North Shore Unitarian Church and featured a panel that included West Vancouver Mayor Don Lan- skail and North Vancouver District Mayor Marilyn Baker, along with representatives from the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD), the West Coast En- vironmental Law Association and the Community Learning Services for a Sustainable Future. Baker said the solution to solv- ing the North Shore’s pollution problems ‘‘starts at liome.’’ “Lifestyle changes are some- thing we have to deal with. We have to look at reducing (waste),’’ Baker said. She added that the public must raise any concerns it has about the products sold in stores not only with the producers of those pro- ducts but also with employees of the steres that sell the items. Baker also said changes are needed in the packaging of some products that ‘‘contain too much plastic and cardboard.”’ Lanskail said he would like to see people recycle more and use public transit more often than they have been. “We have to get more people out of their cars and into buses,”’ he said. ‘‘] take the bus downtown every chance I get. It’s the right way to go.’’ He added that the three North Shore municipalities are working together to try to develop a curb- side recycling program and said the GVRD is hoping to set up a central site for a composting station. ““Without the cooperation of the private sector recycling is not going to work,"’ warned Lanskail. North Vancouver District is cur- rently the only North Shore municipality that has banned back yard burning. And while Lanskail said West Vancouver is considering a similar ban, he was criticized for not mov- ing fast enough on the issue. West Vancouver’s Dr. Leon Bard said he is forced to treat more pa- tients for respiratory problems during the two months of the year West Vancouver allows back yard burning than at any other time of the year. West Coast Environmenial Law Association spokesman Anne Hillyer said all levels of govern- ment should enforce the pollution regulations they have established, something she criticized the pro- vincial government for failing to do. Morris Mennell, GVRD_ air pollution supervisor, admitted the regional district does not always take violators of its pollution laws to court and said that practice must change. “We at the regional district have had to think twice about faying By SURJ RATTAN Contributing Writer charges because of the amount of time invoived in bringing a case to court and the legal! costs,’’ said Mennell. ‘There has to be a better way.”’ Hillyer said an environmental action plan is needed to help iden- tify pollution priorities. Hilda Bechler, spokesman for the Community Learning Services for a Sustainable Future, said the key to solving the world’s pollu- tion problems lies in saving the world’s forests and watersheds. “The solution to pollution is to maintain an ecological balance. Much of that depends on the trees. I think it’s criminal that we’re log- “*‘We at the regional district have had to think twice about laying charges because of the amount of time involved in bringing a case to court and the legal costs.°” — GVRD air pollution supervisor Morris Mennell ging the trees in our watersheds,”’ Bechler said. She also criticized the GVRD for “ignoring the community consen- sus’? when it voted to build a $77-million garbage incinerator in Burnaby. She argued that money would have been better spent on recycling programs. But Baker, who was a GVRD director when the vote was taken and remains one today, said the public had several chances to air their views on the incinerator dur- ing public hearings held on the issue. Recent tests have shown the GVRD’s incinerator is putting out dangerous levels of lead. A member of the Save Howe Sound Society complained about the amount of effluent being discharged into Howe Sound from a nearby pulp mill and asked if other municipalities couldn’t put pressure on the provincial gov- ernment to force them to take ac- tion against the mill. While Lanskail said the North Shore Union Board of Health has agreed to investigate if there are any health risks posed as a result of the mill’s discharge, he said West Vancouver would not make any protest to Victoria. “Individuals can say what they want. But it’s (a formal complaint) beyond our jurisdiction,” Lanskail said.