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NEWS photo Mike Waketleld

MARCEL DUPUIS is fed up with the noise caused by drifling next door to his property on North Vancouver District's
Windridge Drive. The retired heavy-duty mechanic can’t understand why any homeowner would be drilling in a resi-

dential neighborhood zoned for single-family dwellings. See story page 3.

City Council, committee debate use of chloramine, ozone as water disinfectant

THE DEBATE over the safe-
tv of the Lower Mainland’s
drinking water got another
airing Monday as the
Concerned Citizens Against
Chloramine Committee
(CCACC) presented council
with its argument against the
use of chloramine as a see-
ondary disinfectant.

NORTH VANCOUVER
CITY COUNCIL

bv Greg Felton
fn his presentation on belt ot
the committee. Jonn Reva saat

there are environmental and heal
Tisks that militate against any con-
siderition of chloramine.

He said ozone is the only “viable
opuion” the Greater Vancouver
Water District should consider fer
disinfecting Lower Mainaland dristh-
ing Waler suppties,

“Ozone is vastly preferable to
the myriad chemicals and byprod-
ucts the GY WD plans to dump in
opr drinking water” Regan sald its
he condemmed beth chlorine cad
chloramine as cancer-causing

Chlorine, Which is currents
used to disinfect docar drinking
water is bere reconsidered as a
secondary dastafechant ports
heestaee di binds wath bacteria a

Water pipes to form tihalonethanes
CTEINISG which ttre Known to cause
cimicer. Lower Mainkind medics!
health officers codorsed chloranune
lant Novesnber begause tl creates
fewer THM,

The estimiaed costs fot uperad-
ing focal drinking water qualits
range fron S2 million for chloram-
nation te S45 miflion for rechlorina-
tion and $420 miltion for ozonation
and filtration.

Regain told counca) sivmibers that
ovane is mother nature's best tome:
dy Jor disinfecting water:

“Ovone bo penerated without the
use of chemicals and dees aot add
wy chemicals into the :
Water. Pedes not create PEENES.”
ffoocoy ommended:

San outright rejection of the wee of
chieraming in GVRD drinking
vedlory

Ban inimeditte end to all clearcut
fogeing and road-burlding im the
Capshano, Seymour and Coquitlam
svatersbeds. which, according to the
COACGE. is responsthly tor much of
the tutbidiey in Lower Maintand
(rik ine waiter,

But Regan fouad himself it pre-
pated fo arewer corned ors” ques:
Tans,

Conn, Stella te Dean questioned
Resa on a wariier statement in
sbich he darcals linked sata shud
ogee and todd Punting toi PONS
reat aecdtoad heath orbivers”
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dation when chearculting begar but
maintiined that clearcut logging
Was a major cause of drinking
water pollutien because ib created
debris that causes water turbidity,
Masor dack Loucks also chal-
Jenged Resan’s equation between
watershed logging and murky
water. by pointing out thar North
Vancouver City did nor get its
water front the watershed until the
Hy LOSOs,

“During ail the sears the city
had Gits own water supply) there
had never been any Joxging. but
thes had lors of debris and lots of
dirts Water because of the aature of
Me mounkios in the area, We did
meee good water foe ity Vears.

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