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which was ripped away in a.
massive -mudslide. around
midnight Tuesday, taking at
least four vehicles with it, is
unlikely to be installed for
some months.

Meanwhile, as the
community of Squamish
absorbs’‘the shock of the
tragedy, an outbreak of fresh
demands is mounting for an
inland ‘route to replace the
twisting coastal highway
which has been the location
for a constant stream of
fatalities over the years.

Many Squamish residents
who drive the winding road
. to the-North Shore every day
have \for years been
predicting | ‘a catastrophe on
the lines of the bridge
. washout.

Sudden rockslides make
the drive a game of Russian
roulette, regular repair work
on the road adds to existing
risks by generating im-
patience among commuter

“WATER RESERVE

land would be opened
up for limited
recreational use, if
North Vancouver
District Alderman
‘Peter Powell has his
way.

~-Powell sits on the. Greater-
Vancouver Regional District:
board and. will “soon
recommend : to” the <GVRD /.
parks’ ‘committee that some’
of its vast area of water shed
land on the North Shore
should be open to the
people, he told District
council Monday night.

However, other council
members said the GVRD.

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But the scale of last week’s

_ disaster has: shocked even

the most hardened sceptics.

The wooden bridge had
only been inspected in a
highways safety check in
recent weeks. It was the
heavy rains since then which

_ transformed the creek into a

river of death as logs and
trees washed down into a
giant logjam which suddenly
burst, and crashed through
the bridge, tearing it clean of
its footings...
At least four vehicles
plunged down the 50 ft.
drop, claiming the lives of

four members of an Indian

family in a van returning
from a wedding anniversary
in North Vancouver and of a
Vancouver girl who was a
passenger in a car whose

driver survived. Five other |

people were injured and a
couple narrowly escaped
from their house by the

should “move with extreme

caution,” in the words of
Alderman Ernie Crist. “Our
water source is something
that is not to be trifled with,”
Crist said.

Mayor Don Bell and
Alderman Mary Segal also
had reservations about the
idea of permitting hikers and
others in the watershed area
north of North Vancouver,
which... supplies drinking
water to most. of the Lower

. ‘Mainiand. os

Bell said “nat letting

people into the area would
increase ‘the risk of forest
fires, which in turn would
ol lower the water retention

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creek which was ‘torn away
in a sea of mud.
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The strategic importance
of the dangerous highway as
a lifeline to the Squamish
community has been under-
scored in the past few days
when. the village became
virtually isolated from the
rest of the Lower Mainland.

Debris from the slide also

Fears were mounting by
Friday that at least two more
vehicles might have
disappeared into the mud,
claiming a minimum of four
more lives.

Volunteer searchers from
the North- Shore Rescue

group were hampered by the

hazardous conditions as they

waded~ in knee-deep mud

while work erecting. the

Bailey bridge above them’

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detectors were brought in

covered tracks on the B.C.

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but air and water traffic. _ retrieved sections of a
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bud-cars for an emergency
passenger service once the -
line was cleared, ferrying
commuters to the North
Shore in a journey taking 1
hr. 20 minutes.

And as highway crews:
scrambled to install the.
emergency Bailey bridge to:
reopen the highway, ,the
search for more bodies in the
slime below continued.

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lead to mudslides.
Chlorination of the water
supply might have to be
implemented as well, he
warned. |

- But Alderman Jim Ball
supported Powell, saying the
GVRD is being overzealous . -.
in protecting the Water |
supply. ;
And Powell argued that
many other places, including -
England, allow boating and
swimming in lakes used for -
drinking water.

. Powell said he may bring
the i issue.up for a Policy and
Planning ‘Meeting discussion
if the GVRD parks com-
mittee gives his idea some =.

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