ra 8 - Friday, February 8, 1991 — North Shore News BYRON JOSEPH, acting manager of the Capilano Travel Trailer Park, points to the large section of Capilano River bank that was washed away several days ago. The Capilano reservoir lake, held back by the Cleveland Dam, rose 25 feet in just 20 hours. The lake level was lowered, leading to Saturday morning’s rush of river water. Riverbank washes away Capilano trailer park threatened by rising water HIGH WATER on the Capilano River flushed a chunk of Squamish Band land into the Burrard Inlet Saturday. Said Byron Joseph, acting manager of the Capilano Travel Trailer Park, ‘‘It just ate away the bank. I came in the afternoon to look at it and it was too much."’ The river cut approximately 65 to 70 feet into the trailer park area located at a bend on the east side of the river. Joseph said the erosion stopped about a foot short of a road at the mobile home sec- tion of the West Vancouver trailer park. Joseph called in an engineering company and workers installed a rock bench Sunday to absorb the brunt of the force of the river. The band is attempting to save the bank from further erosion by placing large pieces of rock at the riverside site. The river level rose again Sun- day evening but the bench held. According to Joseph, the band lost ‘‘a whole tract of land’? in 1982 when the swollen river struck 400 feet away from the latest ero- sion damage. Meanwhile the weekend washout is being blamed on heavy rains and melting snowpack. According to Greater Van- couver Regional District water district planning and operations administrator Tom Heath, the Capilano reservoir:-lake held back by the Cleveland Dam rose 25 feet By Michael Becker News Reporter in just 20 hours leading to Satur- day morning’s rush of river water. The dam has an alternate gate that opens during high influxes of water to the lake. The reservoir was lowered by opening valves in the diversion tunnel, allowing the release of more water from the reservoir than the amount entering the lake. Heath said flooding would have been ‘“‘far worse’ had the level of the lake not been lowered earlier last week to allow for inspection work of the dam. The lake level was down about 12 feet below the dam spillway for drainage works maintenance. The lake was gradually lowered from a Jan. 30 level of 547 feet to a 535-foot level Feb. 1 — 12 feet below the spillway crest of the dam. But heavy rain pounded the North Shore last Friday, and by 4 a.m. Saturday, the lake level was up by 25 feet. Usually at this time of the year, the reservoir sits at the 570-foot level. Said GVRD water district senior project engineer-Paul Archibald, “If this had been a normal opera- tional year we would have had Join the information Revolution with the NEWS photo Terry Peters another 23 feet (of water) to get rid of. 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