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Dear Editor:

The requests of Ross Muirhead and
his Friends of the Watershed (Nov, 13
News) regarding road building and log-
ging in the Greater Vancouver Water
District (GVWD) water supply area do
not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

The Final Summary Report: on
Watershed Management made by inde-
pendent agencies at the request of the
GVWD has this to say regarding roads
and road building:

@ “The data indicate that GVWD road
construction has no identifiable correla-
tion to turbidity at the water intakes.”
@ “The short and long-term benefits of
roads (allowing access for fire protec-
tion, water quality monitoring, forest
surveillance and erosion control) far
outweigh their relatively minor contri-
bution to sediment and turbidity which
can be minimized through the use of
Rest Management Practices.”

f “A recent survey of landslides ... by
UBC researchers indicates that only
eight out of 319 mass movements

A monument to immorality

Dear Editor:

However innocuous the concept of an AIDS memorial in
Stanley Park might appear, at first glance, I fear its promoters
and supporters are primarily recruited from that sector of the

between 1964 and L989 were caused by
roads.”
Thurber (1991) indicated that none
of the 35 Jandslides that occurred during
the (record) 1990/1991 storms -- have
been related to the failure of road fill or
culverts on the road system.”
@ “Logging roads are being constructed
according to today’s best management
practices to minimize erosion.”
Regarding logging and forest: man-
agement:
@ “Forest practices including timber
harvesting are generally conducted in an
environmentally sensitive manner with
no significant impact on water quality.”
@ “The panel found the GVWD con-
ducts a sound timber harvesting pro-
gram to meet the objectives of the
Management and Working plan.”
f@ “Patch clearcut harvesting — is used
— to achieve a mosaic of forest stands.”
f “Al harvested lands are reforested
within two years of harvesting.”
“Because of the extremely small areas
of fresh clearcurs it is highly unlikely

Dear Editor:

In response to an open

thar the current GVWD timber harvest
program will have any measurable
Hupact on the water regime at the
intakes.”

@ “The panel found ne evidence to con-
clude that present harvesting practices
have been a significant causative factor
of excess turbidity in GVWD sources.”

The GVWD is managed by a dedicat-
ed team of experts highly qualified in
their individual fields.

An independent group of consultants
has reported on the operation of ihe
whole system, with a few of the findings
quoted above. There is much more, but
the studs concludes that our water sup-
ply is one of the best in North America,
if not in the world,

Until Ross Muirhead and his Friends
of the Watershed come up with scientif-
ic studies to confirm their rash state-
ments, any thinking local citizen should
consider such statements as unsubstan-
tial environmental propaganda.

James N. Thomson
West Vancouver

N. Van District net
home sweet home

No doubt Mr. Crist is not
concerned about — being

community which would use tactical symbolism to desensitize
society's natural antipathy towards sexual deviance. In our
country, the main cause for the proliferation of the AIDS virus
has been the preference for unnatural sex. So why a natural set-
ting like Stanley Park for such a monument? For many it would
be a victory symbol for the celebration of unnatural sex. | am
sure that a future generation subscribing to common sense and
concerned with society’s moral health would have it torn down.
M. Lawrence

Burnaby

letter from Coun, Ernie Crist
placed in a recent Sunday
North Shore News, the last
sentence states: “All in all I
am extremely confident that
we can meet the challenges
we face without forcing
many citizens out of their
house and home.” Would
the North Shore News ask
Mr. Crist to explain this

“forced out of his house and
home,” however this is a
deplorable, uncaring and
unsettling comment.

Just how many is
“many”? Does he care where
they go? Why is North
Vancouver District “forcing
citizens out of their house
and home”?

Debbie Tardiff

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