i ype ceeg ong ome) NEWS photo Terry Peters Taking the plunge LAUNCHING HIMSELF into the air from a height of 80 feet, this member of the Great American High Dive team makes a silhouette in the sunshine before plunging into the water below. The dive act is performed four times a day at the PNE. SAVE-ON-FOODS ROOF COLLAPSE Charges THE ASSOCIATION of Professional Engineers of B.C. (APEBC) is actively discussing the possibility of laving charges against individual engineers of a North Vancouver and a Vancouver engineering firm following the release of the inquiry into the April 23 collapse of the Metrotown Save-On-Foods store. APEBC’s director of prafes- sional practices Peter Carson said Friday the association was “‘active- ly Jooking at the text of charges” againsi one or more engineers, but declined to name the engineers or the companies they worked for because charges had not yet been laid. North Vancouver’s Tamm Tacey and Associates Ltd. and Van- couver’s MSS Group were the Structural engineers on the Save- On project. In his report on the Save-On-Foods roof collapse, im- quiry commissioner Dan Closkev documented 16 “tassumptions, decisions, judgements or miscalculations’’ by the ovo engineering, Virms that had each reduced the safety margin of the structure and collectively had rep- resented the prime cause of the collapse. The roof of the 100,000 square- foot megastore caved in minutes after official 9 a.m. opening cere- monies April 23. Twenty people were injured ay be lai orth Vancouver en when cars on the roof’s parking lot plunged into the store after steel roof beams buckled and gave way. Closkey wrote in his report that troof beam structure was ‘“‘greatly under-designed....Failure was in- evitable."* But Closkey also said that bid- ding by engineering companies for projects hac reduced fees to a point that was too low to enable companies to doa proper job. The president: of West) Van- couver’s Amako Construction Ltd., the general contractor on the Save-On project, said Friday the report had helped lift the cloud of suspicion that had surrounded his company after the roof collapse. “Tm delighted,’ Amir Etemadi said. ‘‘We had some tough times...but we knew nothing we Sunday, September 4, 1988 - North Shore News ater study A DELEGATION of Woodlands area residents will appear Sept. 12 before North Vancouver District Council to appeal for an updated study into the long-term supply of safe drinking water for the area. Cindy Horton, @ member of the Woodlands and Sunshine District Ratepayers’ water task force, said the delegation will, becatse of the seriousness of the health pro- blems faced by residents from the increasing pollution of their drink- ing water, also request that council vote on establishing the study at the same Sept. 12 nfeeting. In an Aug. 31 News story chronicling the increasing con- tamination of Woodlands area creeks, North Shore chief public health inspector Bill Kimmett said an April 6 to Aug. 16 health department test program of Granger, “Ostler, Sunshine and Allan creeks had found levels of coliform, including fecals, in creck waters ranging from two to over 3,000 units per 100 millilitres of waler. A. sign advising residents to pre-boil all creck water used for drinking, bathing, brushing teeth or washing food was subsequently posted on Allan Creek, and Kim- mett said additional signs advising the same procedure be used with water used from any of the creeks would be posted. Approximately 70 North Van- couver District households al the northeast. end of Indian River Drive and an additional 12 in the Sunshine wharf area get their fresh water Irom the creeks. Kimmett said Friday the health department will meet Tuesday with Woodlands residents and district engineers in the hopes of establishing an overall strategy plan to resolve the situation, - Kimmett said that a case of salmonella poisoning involving a Woodlands area child had been reported to the health department Thursday, but thus far no official medical confirmation of | salm- onella had been made. He added that while the child could hypothetically have con- tracted salmonella poisoning from contaminated creek water, there was as yet no evidence connecting against wmeers had done was wrong. We were helped through this by our clients, who were very faithful to us, and by the trades, who had confidence in us.** Eteniaidi said the report was very thorough, Recommendations from the Closkey report included appointing a three-member committee to en- sure the report is implemented; re- quiring structural engineers to pass a special examination and ta carry specified limits of protes- sional liability insurance; institu- tion of province-wide design stan- dards; and requiring engineering companies be licensed by APERC. Carson said the report was very well done. and that all recommen- dations were being carefully con- sidered by APEBC, By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter the two, Horton said the ratepayers association has been lobbying the district for funds for an updated water study of the area for several years, and has been working with the district for the past two weeks to establish terms of reference for its presentation to council. She said Woodlands urea _resi- NORTII Shore chief public health inspector Bill Kimmett...high levels of coliform found in creck waters, dents, who pay municipal taxes but dG not pay district water rates, are not demanding all the municipal services provided to other areas of the district, ‘but we do want safe water."” An update of the original 1968 Woodlands area water study con- ducted by the district, she said, is vital to solving the area’s current water problems. In the Aug. 31 district. municipal manager Mel Palmer estimated the capital cost to extend the Greater Vancouver Regional District water system to the Woodlands area would be $1.5 million. News story, Business .............. 28 Classified Ads....... Doug Collins........... Editorial Page.... Fashion ...............1 Bob Hunter...... Lifestyles..............3 Mailbox ............... Sports..... TV Listings...... mm co smn WEATHER Sunday through Tuesday, mainly sunny. Highs 227-25'C. Second Class Registration Number 3885