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per cubic metre — an
increase of approxi

mately 350% in 10 | 499
years.

The reason for the
costly waterspout is the
Water Quality
Improvement Program
adopted by the Greater
Vancouver Regional 200 -
District in 1994.

Over a period of
time Vancouver’s water 100 :
quality had deteriorat-
ed to the point that
waterborne — diseases
became a concern for
regional health officers.

Dirty —s municipal
watermains, increasing
populstion density
requiring longer pipe
runs and periodic cur-
bidity in the reservoirs
all exacerbated the
problem of disinfecting
Lower Mainland drink-
ing water.

After extensive public debate the use
of chloramine as a disinfectant was reject-
ed in favor of:

B an upgraded chlorine primary disinfec-
tant facility at the Seymour reservoir;

G ozonation and residual chlorination at
the Capilano and Coquitlam reservoirs;
up to 20 (initially) rechlorination sta-
tions;

@ construction of corrosion control facil-
ities;

W staged introduction of filtration com-
mencing with the Seymour source.

Logging opponents have long argued
that the costs of filtration at the reservoirs
have been exacerbated by logging in the
watersheds. :

The GVWD has currently suspended
its logging program while an environ-

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mental assessment takes place.

“Certainly you can relate a good por-
tion of these water cost increases to
watershed mismanagement in the past,”
Coun. Janice Harris told the News.

“Let’s hope we are past the age of
despoiling our own drinking water with
logging and road building for the spuri-
ous reasons of fire management and
insect control.”

Edgemont resident Corrie Kost agrees
and urges a full review of both the per-
formance and mandate of the GVWD.

“To say J am disappointed with the
GVWD would be a gross understate-
ment. I don’t know whether to laugh or
cry,” he told councii on Monday.

Kost said that desalination, reputedly
the most expensive way of delivenng
potable water, can produce water at

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“about 36 cents (US)
per cubic metre.”

“Sow the astound:
ing thing is that this is
close fo whar the
GVIVWD is going to
charge us,

“[ fad it tronic thar
for a country that has

such an abundance of

fresiy water. especially
al B.C. where we
live in a rainforest. that
we would end up pay-
ing the same bulk water
rat ass those in
Califernia or israel.
“fo have accom-
plished such a fiasco
must require more than
sheer stupidity and at
the very least a good
measure of incompe-
tence.”

THE steady rise in annual water bills in North Vancouver The other factor
District is illustrated by this bar graph. The numbers on the left
show the annual cost in hundreds of doliars to an average sin- this year’s
gle-family residence.

having an impact on
charge
increase to district
water users is an accel-
egation of the municipality’s watermain
replacement program.

The district has been replacing about
5,C00 metres (16,404 feet) of high-risk
mains annually.

But, as previously chronicled in the
North Shore Mews, the district contin-
ues to experience problems and failures in
the 37% of its watermains that are
asbestos-cement.

In 1997 the district will replace 8,500
metres (27,887 feet) of watermain and
staff hope the funding will be available to
maintain that rate of replacement for 10
years as the number of high risk mains
continues to increase. .

Bob Huffman, Utilities Section man-
ager, says a report on the state of the dis-
trict’s watermains should be going to the
new council in the new year.

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