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October 20, 1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

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NEWS photo Terry Peters
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PAGE 13

B.C,

Beach, who said Thursday:
he is after what he estimates
is now a $500 million mar-
ket for fresh water in
southern California, has
been working towards
realization of his fresh water
export operation for approx-
imately three years.

Tom Smith, manager of
water licensing for the pro-
vincial water management
branch, said the extension,
which gives Beach until
January 16, 1986 to come up
with the money, was granted
to give Beach more time to
complete the necessary mar-
ket research to justify the
licence.

Beach said he and _ his
company, Coast Mountain
Aquasource Lid., have
jumped all the politica!
departments and hurdles,
from the Federal Depart-
ment of Fisheries and
Oceans to the Department of
External Affairs, in his
three-year quest to market
fresh water.

LAST OBSTACLE

Aquisition of a bulk water
export licence is the last
obstacle to overcome before
he can open the sluices.

The size of Coast Moun-
tain’s potential slice of the
water market pie, Beach
said, was still not fully map-
ped out, “but certainly there
is a very large market for
good quality fresh water,

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WEST VANCOUVER'S Colin Beach has been
given another three months to come up with
$83,000 for a licence to export fresh water from

both bottled and in bulk.”

According to Smith,
Beach has applied for a
licence to take 900 acre feet
of water annually from Freil
Creek, which feeds into
Hotham Sound approx-
imately 50 miles north of
Vancouver,

An acre foot of water,
Smith explained, translates
to 270,000 gallons. Tariffs to
be exacted by the provincial
government from fresh
water export include an ini-
tial application fee of $1.50
per acre foot of water
covered by the export
licence, an annual rental fee
of $7.50 per acre foot of
water requested in the
licence, and a $7.50 per acre
foot charge for all water us-
ed.

SURPLUS WATER

Smith added that any
ligence-holder must make
beneficial use of all water
licensed, ‘‘they can’t just sit
on it,”’ and all waters licens-
ed must be deemed surplus
to provincial use.

The provincial gov-
ernment is currently con-
sidering three bulk water ex-
port applications.

Though Beach's applica-
tion is the largest of the
three, it is not, according to
Smith, the application
closest to being processed.