November 29, 1991 NORTH Vancouver unwelcome, unseasonable and 1992 sewer and water user f District 88 pages Test drive the 1992 Chevrolet Suburban Automotives: 29 NEWS photo Paul McGrath APPROXIMATELY 150 people turned out at Lonsdale Quay on Wednesday evening as local groups (in picture: the Sweet Adelines) sang Christmas carols. Starting Dec. 7 and running through Dec. 24 the Quay will feature live Christmas ¢ entertainment. property owners face inevitable increases in th after council reluctantly approved staff proposals on Monday night. District se user fees will jump 30.59%, with the charge tog single-family property going from $8lin 19917 to $106 in 1992, The district's sewer User fees are ablished each year to cover: @the cost of sewage treatment service provided by the Greater Vancouver Sewe and Drainage Districr (GVSDD),; @the cost for maintenance of the sews operation and re collee- By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer HON system: @ the cost of capital projects; @ the contribution to the sewer utility’s reserve account, District deputy engineering services ry McBride told council that GVSDD sewage [reatment costs charged to the district represent: more than director of tes NVD ’92 user fees to jump 30.5% 60% of the district's increase in the single-family rate. Regional sewage plans) inglude dechiorinating Lions te treat- ment plant sew luent and removing Ireated - shudy from the plant's efffuent before it is discharged into Narrows e sludge discharge, ac- cording to the Greater Vancouver Regional District's (GVRD) liquid waste study, in a major source ot First) Narrows water contamina- tion. In response to questions from Ald. Janice Harris, district direc- tor of engineering services John Bremner told council that district storm water runoff is piped direct- ly to North Shore creeks and the surrounding ocean, unlike Van- conver and large parts of Burnaby and New Wesaninster where it is mixed with the sewer system. Bremner said he agreed that ur- ban runoff will be a municipal problem to solve: he told council, “We need to identity the most likely problem areas.’ The operational portion af the sewage budget will in 7,505 because of inflation and a slightly higher level of service; the other budgeted increase is the contribu- tion to the reserve account, The reserve account ¥ vily in 199f to pay for the Eastridge sewer system, an un- budgeted expense council approv- ed during the year, and to com- pensate for reduced revenues from frontage t aus older develop- used NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL ments complete their payments for sewer connections. Water user fees for a) single- district property will also in 1992, but by a more modest 6% — from $133 10 $140. The st oof water purchased from the Greater) VYaneouver Water District will climb by 32.1% but is more than offset by the district's decision to substan- tially reduce its contribution to the water ulility’sS reserve account. The GVRD's long-range plan for 199E to 1997 galls for a massive $2.3 billion in capital ex- penditures in the region.