2 - Wednesday, June $4, 1939 North Shore, News, Report recommends Woodlands water alternatives RESIDENTS IN North Vancouver District’s Woodlands area are happy with recommendations in a consulting engineer’s report into the water crisis in the area, but unhappy that the source of area creek pollution remains unidentified. The report, compiled by West Vaneouver’s Dayton & Knight Led. and released last week to North Vancouver District Council, was commissioned to provide alter- natives to the Woodiands-Sunshine Falls inadequate and unsanitary water supply. Because the district water system does not extend to the area, the 78 developed Woodlands lots of the potential 113 draw their fresh water from area crecks. According to the firm’s report, the best solution to the Woodlands water crisis is to extend the district water system to the area and con- struct a new water distribution system. Last summer Woodlands resi- dents at the northeast end of In- dian River Drive and those in the adjacent Sunshine area were advis- ed by the North Shore Health Department to pre-boil and disinfect all drinking and bathing water taken) from those creeks after tests found levels of col- iforms, including fecals, ranging from two to over 3,000 units per 100 millilitres of creek water. B.C. drinking water standards permit no coliform in’ drinking wuter. And two fires in the past two months have also underlined the inadequacy of area water supplies. On June 3, Sunshine Falls resi- dents were forced to battle a brush fire with wet blankets, shovels and fire extinguishers because of the area’s limited water supply and road ac on May 14, the Woodlands area home of Richard and Mary Buscomb burned to the foundations. Cindy Horton, a member of the Woodlands and Sunshine District Ratepayers Association, said area residents want ‘‘a long-term source water’ both for health and fire safety. “We need safe water, and lots of it," she said. The Mount Seymour ski resort at the headwaters of Allan, rancis, Ostler and Sunshine Its sewage treatment phint is licensed to discharge approxi- mately 15,000 gallons of secondary trealed sewage daily into Francis Creck, which is just west of Allan Creck, one of the three main sources of fresh water in the area, Though visual inspections of the sewage plant and its discharge pipe conducted last year after discovery of the high coliform counts found no evidence that sewage was ADVERTISING CORRECTION EATON'S SUMMER LOOK NOW Page 3 -— Item D -- Cotton Poplin Sports Shirts from Y Sb. are avadable in tong & short stee Page 40 —- tem A — RF 1720 Frost Free Fridge does not have an ice cube Iray shell as shown Page 43 -- Item A ~— Freshwater Pearls with bonus/18" tiple strand in- correctly described, should pe 16" Page 44 -- Item A — Julius Resnick Handbags $11 99-29 The price should read $11 99: 3. 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The option suggested by the repost of expanding the district's water system to the area would in- clude construction of a new supply main along Indian River Drive and a 100,000-gallon storage reservoir to provide adequate pressure for firefighting. tt would cost approximately $2 million. Per-lot share of that cost over 20 years would range between $755 and $3,620 per year depending on the provincial government funding percentage and whether the total was shared among 78 or 133 lots. The report ruled out ground- water as a viable water supply alternative, and while it concluded that developing a supply system using local creeks was feasible, the report pointed Gut such drawback» as water quality, which could not be guaranteed even with chlorina- tion, and water quantity, which drops dramatically during dry weather. The Woodlands and Sunshine District, Ratepayers are scheduled ta make a presentation to council on the report June 25. 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