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Election 2000

The Voice of North and West Vancouver since 1969

Cypress
sewage

West Vancouv

Deana Lancaster

News Reporter
dlancaster@nsnews.cont

FIVE years after outlining expansion plans for the
commercial ski operation in Cypress Provincial Park,
its owners can move ahead with them.

On Monday night, West Vancouver council voted unanimously to cxccute
the Cypress Provincial Park Sewage Services Agreement with B.C. Parks, allow-
ing it to. officially begin operating a private line connecting, the operations of
Cypress Bowl Recreations Lad. (CBRL) to the municipal sewage system. The
hook-up has actually been in temporary use since council gave its permission at
the end of July. The sewage connection is part of an original master plan laid
outin 1995, Upgrades were needed because more visitors were travelling to
the park each year, and both B.C. Parks and CBRL, which purchased the
commercial operation within the provincial park in 1984, recognized the
need for improved facilities. ;
According to CBRL marketing manager Matthew Broadbent, paid visits te
the park last winter — including downhill, skiers, snowboarders, cross-country
skiers and tobogganers — numbered more than 500,000. According to B.C.
Parks figures, there were about 1.5 million visits made to Cypress in total in
1999.
Uni the sewer connection was completed the mountain relied on tanker
trucks to ship raw sewage from its vacuum -operated toilets, outhouses and con-
struction-style portable toilets to the sewage treatment plant in Tona. With the
connection to West Vancouver's system in place, that’s no longer necessary.
“Any time you can take a truckload of sewage off the read [ think that's a
good thing,” said Broadbent yesterday afternoon.
As well as better washroom facilities, CBRL's master plan to improve the
mountain's d; facilities includes:
Ba new high-speed quad chairlift or gondola to the top of Mount Strachat
Bwo new quad chairs — one of which, the Sunrise Chair, was installed tor
son;
Bthree new double chairs,
Banew 100-seat restaurant as part of the upper terminal of the Mount Strachan
gondola;
Bnew and improved downhill and cross-country mails,
Erplcement of temporary trailer buildings in the downhill and cross-country areas
with permanent buildings for food and beverage, gift shop and rentals, a children’s
and administration; . on iy cay ; a pe : a
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But the plan has met with much resistance. Some nearby residents were NEWS photo Paul McGrath

concerned that the proposal would grow to inchide real estate and hotel
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impact on. the park's creeks and ecosystems and opposed the proposed cut- ;

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