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March 8, 1989) News 985-2131

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NEWS photo Mite Wakefie:d

1 THE LOWER Lonsdale landscape is changing as development steps up in the area. The St. Alice Hotel, opened in 1912, was reduced to a pile of
rubble this week to make way for a 28-storey highrise. Stephen Tremblay, of D. Litchfield & Co. Lid., handles one of the hotel's many historic

bricks.

GVRD

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THE GREATER Vancouver Regional District's board of
directors has challenged the Western Canada Wilderness
Committee (WCWC) lo substantiate its claims that a major
mudslide caused by clearcut logging practices occurred
recently in the Capilano watershed and threatens Lower
Mainland water quality.
Board members moved und

seconded a motion to refer the
WCWC's claims to the GVRD*s

Water und Waste Munagement
Committee, and to call for proot
from the environment group after
receiving a staff report into the
WCWC's initial slide allegauions.

Ina Dee. 2h, 198K News story,
GVRD spokesman Bud Elsie called
the WCWC claims “‘irresponsi-
ble".

The GVRD, he said, had found
no evidence of the slide, and added

that the slide identitied by WOCWC
staff forester Mark Wareing had
occurred naturally in 1975 in the
Healmond Creek area.

A week of heavy rains during
Octobe: [98t made the slide area
large’. according ©) the staff
report, but the size of the slide has
been siable ever since, partially
becuuse of a watershed
maintenance program that has in-

aims

cluded hydroseeding and the plant-
ing of junipers.

But Wareing said the slide had
increased ten fold as a result: of
GVRD logging practices, and
maintained that numerous
mudslides in the area were
dramatically increasing the amount
of turbidity in drinking water

See GVRD
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