/ RESIDENTS LOSE APPEAL — Bowen sewage to discharge in channel rue buuc Cove improvement District (SCID) has won permission to discharge 20,000 gallons of Bowen Island: septic tank- quality sewage daily Channel, JA May 9 Environmental Appeal Board decision dismissed an appeal filed by a group of Bowen Islanders ‘against SCID’s revised Waste’ Management Branch. per- ‘mit, which allows sewage discharge into the channel 100 metres off- shore and 50 metres below low tide levels. “We are very pleased," SCID chairman Bill Riddell said Thurs- day. “Ic. totally validates’ what we've been saying all along.”’ The appeal was faunched by the ‘Bowen, Island Improvement into Queen Charlotte | By TIMOTHY RENSHAW | News Reporter Association (BIEA) on the grounds that the 20,000-gallon daily allowance for septic-tank quality sewage was twice the daily amount allowed under provincial environ- ment objectives and presented a health hazard from effluent being washed back into Snug Cove har- / bor and Deep Bay. : BIA wanted the ‘improvement district to be forced to adhere to its original Waste Management per- Feds have leased land for A ” "From page 4 be fined. se? This’ should 1 never have been , allowed to happen,”” he said. ‘The _ taxpayer is paying for this. It'could be used as a park...but sverywhere you look is garbage.”*- -~ He ‘said a. summer “works pro- gram’ could be established , to clean up the site. 9 > VE : Squamish Band Chief Philip Joe The problems have increased, he said, since» the, , dump 3 was closed.to the public. | ‘tuall ‘impossit le! for. his” band,to Samping: he‘ property. against. illegal 2 We are terribly upset: * management said his band: faces ‘‘all kinds of * ~: problems with.” people’ dumping 7 “garbage on our reserve.'” Premier Street - 75 | i ; of Environment Canada. Christiansen said Public. Works, | property.” federal after’ for .. other government departments, has received approval to, develop a program te clean up the property. ec which [looks proved by Environment Canada. But! in order: to” reopen’ Jease- discussions with the Squamish Band)’. Christiansen said Public - Works must have 4 mandate: from the federal cabinet. - : |The current “ease payment is renewable every five. years, and the’ lease itself is specifically. written to. incliide an environment centre on: ; Sly. Since; 1974, annual lease pay-.: ments. have risen: from $241, 402 to the current $800, 000. : my the site is to be used’ for anything. but on. environment! cen-: : owe the lease-and the annual, lease pay’ ent must be renegotiated. years the site is/atso the private property said the plan could be ready” within/a week. It must then be ap- mit, which would have allowed SCID a daily septic-tank quality discharge of 8,869 gallons. All discharge over that amount would have required sevondary sewage treatment. But the objectives of the sewage plan, according to SCID, were to address with. currently available funds the immediate and serious health problem created by incffi-, cient septic tanks seeping into Snug Harbor and to provide a starting point for cleaning up Island’s growing sewage disposal problems. . SCID was issued « its 20,000- gallon discharge allowance after it appealed its original permit to Waste Management director Rob Ferguson. wants the 22hectare site, which ts currently lensed froen the: Squamish Jodiain : “K snedy gol’ ‘to take her opinio sto th top. Thursday: resented 2 brief. to. Prime Minister. Brian Mulroney during his recent stay in. Vancouver. Suz rade 11. Handsworth social studies students have been eee on'a free.trade brief for the past six months, the’prime minister and Bowen. ~ polic : as. Brian’s first, and last accident. , : ‘The good die young.” ; { 3 Sunday, May 15, 19848 - North Shore News In its decision the board, stated its concern ‘‘that present malfunc- tioning of individual sewage disposal systems has ‘created a public health hazard and is a ma- jor contributing factor. to con- tamination of the waters of Snug Cove." hi also found that the weight of technical evidence presented sup- ported SCID's contention that Snug Cove water quality will be improved by the sewage discharge without significant impact on Howe Sound or Deep Bay waters. While expressing sympathy for BIIA's concern for potential overloading of the sewage disposal system, the board pointed out that any increase in discharge or expan- sion’ of SCID boundaries would RCMP officer tions should review | traffic. fatality. es’ for “quality nd Kerr, “Clark a over ‘the: past . four years. on Said Colin Mackie, the deceased man’s friend Of 10. years: ‘‘The police see a guy lying there in a black leather, jacket and a guy whe | looks like he popped out of mom's apple pie and you know who the. re. going .to believe. That ‘Said * Rob... (Allinson, tory changed: -as ‘the. case went: along.’ When: it» came to-court; *. there ;were- witnesses: who all. of-a- udden couldn’ ‘« remember.’ The ‘Allinson family is consider- . left behind nc Justin, ¢ and an” older, adopted so £ “ eted by police ‘for failing -to yield the: right, of way. after, stopping for”: a’stop ‘sign: Police charged Millar. » with dangerous ‘driving following ‘|. ‘the: “conclusion:: “Of: the’ 'mid- December coroner’s inquest... Brian’: §.. brother: ‘There: is no justice. The i require a permit amendment. BHA spokesman John Rich said Thursday he was disappointed with the appeal’s dismissal, but declined to comment further.” j Sewage under the permit will be discharged from 29 private fots in the Snug Cove district.! Estimated average daily’ flow. will be 13,000 gallons. ; / In an April 29 News story chronicling/ the discharge permit | appeal, Riddell said the additional 7,000 gallon allowance will allow for peak/ flows and/ for’ possible future / connection -of five undeveloped SCID lots. The /new Bowen! ‘Island sewage line should be installed by Oc- ; tober, Riddell said! WAYNE. GILB RTSON 5 surveys, the. urban detiris scattered over vacant, it land at the fuot of ‘Capitano Road. He Band by | Environment Canada, Mailbox :..0.... W ‘Listings... wees !"¢loudy with showers. :.