Friday, June 16, 1995 ~ North Shore News — 3 Sp A PO SC PS sc Wet SS AST Pn ART pA sd eHVUPLP yrhiterrr resets eps sn SAL ™ Primary Disinfection Facility Claveland Dam Max. Water Level Capilano Mosquito Grouse Mouniain Shaft Capilano “Grouse Mountain Creek \ Bedrock . (Pre-Quaternary) ™ Mountain Hwy fn Shaitow Soll / Rock Tunnel Phase ll Seymour Shatt Proposed Filtration Plant Surface Pipeline , om DIAGRAM SHOWING plans for the GVRD’s $1-billion water treatment and filtration system program, linking facilities at the Capilano and Seymour watersheds. - NORTH VANCOUVER resi- dents: who previewed the ‘Greater Vancouver Regional Y District’s (GVRD) 30-year, $1- billion water treatment project at an open house Wednesday night said the program is nec- . essary .and= they'll accept increases to their water bills. "By Bob Mackin Contributing Writer ‘Residents can expect the annu- al water rate to rise from an aver- age $140 to $240 over the next 10 years. 5 “You can’t Bet, it any cheaper, there’s no doubt, but it's going to be worth it,” said Harold Rode of Lynn Valley. Nancy Platt, who lives just off Capilano Road near Handsworth secondary school, said she doesn't mind the anticipated increase in traffic or noise that the project may bring: - “Ina few years maybe we won't have to buy all these filter- ing gadgets that we. have in our fridges and on our taps,” Platt said. ‘YT don’ t mind as long as we're going to get good «' water in the end.” ‘ of the Watershed said citizens are paying for the effects of watershed logging, which he said is a major 66 It seems like we're dealing with a historical problem of too much inter- vention in the forests 99 a Ross Muirhead of Friends of the Watershed Y ’ cause of turbidity in local drinking water. $990s are taxpayers faced with a billion-dollar outlay of money, why didn’t this come up in the 70s?” said Muirhead. “It seems like we're dealing with a historical problem of too much intervention in the forests.” The GVRP voted last year to construct new water treatment facilities al water- sheds in. North Vancouver and Coquitlam to meet rising water quality standards and help curtai] possible contamination. The improved treatment and filtration systems will help eradi- cate turbidity, corrosion of pipes caused by acidity of water, and remove the threat of harmful Giardia cysts and Cryptosporidium parasites that can cause illness in humans. A new pH adjustment and dis- infection factlity will open in 1998 at the Cleveland Dam and the first portion of an underground tunnel system will open. By 2015, the tunnel will pump water from Capilano Lake to a fil- tration plant at Rice Lake in the . Seymour area. Tests will be done on ozone and biological treatment, which could .eventually supplant chlorine as the primary drinking water disinfectant. ‘See Drilling page 19 and I know water’ s going ups again, Inkni “He spatitis possible. cause of death ©. “A VIBRANT. young West. Vancouver. "man died of unknown causes while trav- elling and .surfing on a’ far-flung i Indonesian is land.- oe ‘By Jan Noble News Reporter "Twenty- -one-year-old | David became ill on the medically ill-equipped island of Nias, located east of Sumatra, a main island “. in Indonesia. "Three ‘days’ Jater, on June 7, while two -, friends were helping him get to a hospital in “the major Senter of Medan, Sumatra, Christy died. Christy’s “father, Tom Christy, said the end to. David's brief but adventurous life was fit- ting. You never ‘want your son to die,” said Christy. ‘The consolation for me is he had an incredible number of friends and he was a doer.” David, who enjoyed many sports, died ina beautiful part of the world doing something he loved, Christy added. ~The suspected cause of death is hepatitis _but without an autopsy, pinpointing the exact cause of death will not be possible, he said. But ‘Ross Muirhead of Friends Christy : Photo submitted SPORTS ENTHUSIAST David Christy. died in Asia on his 21st birthday. Christy said doctors could not perform an autopsy because David's body was not proper- ly embalmed in Indonesia. wenn David’s body home proved diffi- cult Although the Canadian Embassy in Jakarta caused a few problems, “in the end they came to the pany: * Christy said. “Why all of a sudden in the: Christy said he had agreed to spend $1,800 to fly David’s body home from Nias through Jakarta, which has proper medicul facilities. However, Christy then received a frantic call from two Australian friends of David's. The friends, who were looking after David's body, said they were in Medan, where no facil- ities to keep David's body cool existed, said Christy. Embassy personnel had changed the plans after deciding the option agreed to by Christy was going 10 be more than $1,800 and too expensive. While David’s friends packed ice around his body to keep it cool, Christy’s friends con- tacted Vancouver Centre MP Hedy Fry’ s office. As svon as Fry’s office became involved, everything fell into place and David’s body arrived home June 12, said Christy. ‘ “In the final analysis the embassy did a good job.” said Christy, although he added if Fry’s office had not become involved, there may have been some bureaucratic bungling. Christy said David likely had gone to Nias thinking he had all the right medicine... When he died, David had been travelling in Asia for eight months. A memorial service will be held today at 4 p.m. at St. Francis in the. Wood, 4773 Piccadilly South. West Vancouver. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made °: to the David Christy Memorial Scholarship Fund at West Vancouver Secondary School. .- versus hous! ment in the two urban reserves, From page 1 Council did not ask for the financial report A decision to rezone the land as parkland will also have major repercussions: for the CMHC, the majority. owner of approximately 420 acres — or about half. the land — in “ Mountain Forest. - The CMHC, a federal crown agency, owns: a. 75% share of the.lund, while the province: owns 25%. However, the land title'‘and respon- sibility for the project rest with the CMHC. ‘A decision in favor of parkland will not only cost the CMHC millions of dollars in rev- enue, but also hurt the corporation’s objective. of providing a mix of housing options. said Tse. \ Mountain Forest is is part of CMHC s biggest ‘project in B.C. However, Tse’ said CMHC respeats the: PRO debate as council business the CMHC; does not want to get involved in. ; The 18-hole Northlands course was origi- nally a $10.8-million development, but it has hit cost overruns of about $1.5 million. m