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November 30, 1980

By PAT RICH
Properties in the
Riverside Drive area of

North Vancouver face
the risk of a serious
slide in less than 12
years similar to the
ones which destroyed
two houses a year ago,
according to a report

- prepared for the
- District .of North
Vancouver,

AERIAL TAKEOVER occurred quite literally when North Van City
offictals took possession of its new 100 ft. aerial ladder track Thursday.
Clty Mayor Jack Loucks is pictared at the top of the new ladder truck,
accompanied by fire chief Dick Hallaway and firefighter Lieutenant Vic |
Merrill, as he receives the key from George Preston, of Howard

Report warns of storm trends

In addition the report
warns that because of
cracking that occurred on
the slope some areas could
be susceptible to a slide
under less severe rainfall
conditions than those of the
1979 storm.

Titled ‘Geotechnical
Appraisal - Slope Stability’
the report prepared by Klohn
Leonoff Ltd, consulting
engineers, presents “a
general geotechnical ap-

praisal of the potential for

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slide activity along the
section of the east bank of
the Seymour River.”

District council requested
preparation of the report in

NV District
won't accept
responsibility

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May, following three slides
on December 17 of last year,
after several days. of heavy

rainfall, which demolished
two homes at the base of the
slope.

The report was presented
to the District November 3
and released to the News last
week.

It analyses a_ section
approximately one mile long
including 68 properties along
the crest of the slope and 56
homes at the base.

“Conditions exist at some
locations along the crest of
the slope such that there is a

danger of future surface
slides during periods of
heavy rainfall,” the report
says.

“The greatest danger of
future sliding is at locations
where slumping and
cracking has occurred
during previous storms and
where over-steepened fill
soils and debris have been
placed at the crest of the
natural slope.”

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Distributors, who sold the track to the City. Preston made the presen-
tation from atop the ladder of the old 1958 La France aerial truck which
the new machine replaces. Built In Quebec by Plerreville, the new track
is the only one of Its type on the west coast. (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

by
squeak

be firmly rejected: in
West Vancouver.

Those were the findings of
a recent survey by the Public
Opinion. Research’ Division
of the North Shore News.
Local referendums on the
issue are permitted under
new provincial government
legislation, although none of
the three North Shore
municipalities chose to hold
them during this month’s
municipal elections.

In 32 B.C. municipalities
which did hoki referendums,

19 voted in tasour of wide-
open Sunday store hours.
The other $3 threw the

proposal out

In the North Shore survey
a geographically bakinced
sample of 390) house hulds
from Deep Cove to Hor-
Bay was asked.
“Should all stores be allowed

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seshoe

Cloudy, with a
chance of showers

MONDAY:
Clearing trend.
Some sunny periods.

on the North Shore

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