12 — Friday, November 8, 1997 ~ North Shore News

Low rainfall causing discolored water

DESPITE RECENT rain-
fall, the color and taste of
Seymour Lake reservoir
water have not improved.

By Elizabeth Collings
News Reporter

The Greater Vancouver
Regional District (GVRD) reser-
voir’s water is slightly yellow and
tastes more noticeably than usual
of chlorine because of an unusual-
ly low rainfall, according to
GVRD spokesman Bud Elsie.

Areas serviced by the Seymour
reservoir include the North Shore
east of Lonsdale, North Burnaby,
and parts of Coquitlam, New
Westminster, Delta and Surrey.

Seymour Lake is down 30 feet
from the top compared with last
year at this time when it was spill-
ing water at the dam. In October,
the watershed received about 25%
of the normal amount of rain for
the month.

The level of Capilano Lake is
also low, but because it is a
deeper lake, its water quality has
not been adversely affected.

According to the Vancouver
Weather Office, 45.1 millimetres
of rain fell at Vancouver airport
from Monday through to Thurs-
day morning.

But the rainfali has been insuf-
ficient to bolster Seymour’s low
water level.

“The situation hasn’t improved
perceptibly at all,’’ said Elsie.

Bob Jones of the GVRD’s qual-
ity control department said the

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GVRD has hired consvitants to
study why the water has a
stronger chlorine taste even
though no additional chlorine is
being added.

According to Jones, the original
theory was that when the lake is
low, there is no exchange of water
through the lake and the water
tends to be stale; higher levels of

into the lake.

“it’s definitely a natural thing
we’re seeing -but we're not con-
vinced of the cause. It could be
one of the two or a bit of both,”
said Jones.

Despite the low levels of water
in the two North Shore reservoirs,
the GVRD is not concerned about
its water supply.

iron and ammonia are naturally
occurring symptoms.

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