- Wednesday, October 16 1985 - North Shore News

Residents work to ease flood threat

CYPRESS CREEK residents have stacked up — ‘reck needs dredging. “You can't just dig a ditch, as much control as possible 1986," Humphreys said,

with over 30 tonnes of sand — for winter.

Residents along the
flood-prone creek held a
sandbagging party Saturday
in an effort to protect their
homes from flooding and
show the municipality of
West Vancouver that they
are a cohesive group trying
to find the best long-term
solution to their problem.

With sand and bags sup-
plied by the municipality, 50
residents stacked a two and a
half foot wall between three
houses and the creck in an
effort to protect approx-
imately a dozen homes from
potential disaster.

The three-hour effort con-
sumed 25 tonnes of new
sand and several additional
tonnes recovered: from old
sand walls erected during
past floods.

WORK IN VAIN

“IT hope the work is in
vain,’’ said organizer Julian
Baldry, ‘‘because that means
no one will have a pro-
blem.”’

But all the baggers realize
their work is just temporary
and a long term solution is
needed.

The municipality attemp-
ted to install a flood control
debris pit up stream with fi-
nancia! assistance from the
federal Fisheries which
wanted a better water supply
for its West Vancouver lab-
oratory.

But residents, complining
the plan was rushed and ill-
founded, were successful in
delaying construction for at
least a year.

Now residents complain
the municipality is doing
nothing to prevent flooding
this year.

FLOODED TWICE

“I'd like to see the
municipality just ‘clean the
creek at the bottom here,”’
said Paula Upson who was
flooded twice in 1983.
*“We've done as much as we
can in the sandbagging biz.
I just hope the municip.:
hall with do something with °
Cypress Creck.

“Speed is not an ele-
ment,” said Baldry. ‘‘The
key thing is that something
be done and that it be
carefully considered. And |
don’t believe that’s been
done.”

Doug Quance, an up-
stream resident who fought
against the municipality’s
debris pit hopes the sand —
bagging party will embarrass
the municipality into action.

“TL hope this forces more
effort (by the municipality),
with community input this
time,"’ Quance said.

West Vancouver Mayor

“We have ensured thatthe or the trench will scour, but look forward i i
t C ; . to with the construction
bed of the creek conforms to eroding the sides which will alleviating the problem in debris pit. of the

Derrick Humphreys refuted the maximum contours and just fall in.
the residents’ claims that the depth,'’ said Humphreys. “We have the creek under

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Call Paul. at 684- 6856.

CYPRESS CREEK resident John Linford stacks sand bags at a neighbors home to protect it
from flooding. About 50 residents held a sand bagging party Saturday to protect homes and
pressure West Vancouver municipality into find a long-term solution to flooding on Cypress
Creek.

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