Keep on questioning water treatment Dear Editor: Your May 10 News Viewpoint “Water Worries’’ is right on when you say that the recent public forums on the watershed logging “have failed to clarify... the local water-supply issue’? and that ‘the arguments have neither advanced nor decided the debate.”” And you are also right on to say that ‘‘North Shore water qual- ity has dropped over the past few years; it reeks of chlorine and, after heavy rains, it is often mud- dy and unpalatable.”’ But you are off-base when you conclude that ‘‘what we don’t know is what weter quality is like Let’s not make sex a death sentence Dear Editor: I am writing to you about the article by Noel Wright and other columns about condoms. My mother at 57 years old tried to convince me that children float in the mothcr’s bladder before birth. This was a woman who was at home trying to teach me human sexuality and birth control, but had no education herseif. I am 38 years old. Yet i know of women ages 28, 23 and 19 who still have no clue as to how they got pregnant! News Mailbox policy LETTERS TG the editor must in- clude your name, written legibly, your full address and telephone number. MOTOR VEHICLE INJURY DEREK A. CAVE A Law Corporation Over 20 years experience in the trial of injury and trauma cases. 687-0258 Campaign to Elect g David Schreck Social Credit changed the voting rules - you can no longer register on election day. Check to see if you have a voter identification card with your current name and address. To get a registration form or change your address, call the Registrar of Voters at 660-6848 Call David Schreck and tain about the issues that concern you. Sunday, June 2, 1991 - North Shore News - 7 MAILBOX — borne diseases. The high bacteria counts caused by the dirty water have no more chance of harboring pathogens than they have any other time of the yeas — and that chance is virtually nil. So please don’t say we don't know what water quality was like prior to logging. And please keep on questioning the costs of water treatment to clear up the water for a few weeks each year. Capilano system since 1954 also in the Seymour Reservoir after it went into operation about 1961. What we did not have in 1955 that we have today is politically minded health officers who de- mand heavy doses of chlorine as a safeguard against the dirty water's ability to elevate bacteria counts. This is why our water now “reeks of chiorine.”’ The watersheds have always been closed and protected, guar- anteeing freedom from water when no logging is taking place." Cleveland Dam went on stream in 1954-55 after the reservoir had been filled and floating debris removed. Remeniber the Grey Cup in 1955? In early November °55 we had our first slides in the Capilano Reservoir after heavy tains. Capilano water was dirty with almost a colloidal suspension of clay for weeks thereafter. There had been no logging in the watersheds — any of them — since about 1925. Logging in the Capilano Water- shed did not start until nearly 1960. Slides and dirty water have continued regularly in the Wg ||