Al3 - Wednesday, November 30, 1983 - North Shore News

Kroon
hits
study

A PIECE of North Van City
property that one alderman
described as a *‘duck pond”
will get up to $4,800 worth of
soil tests, council decided
Monday night.

A report from the City
Land Agent said the property
at First St. and MacKay Rd.
was ‘‘well-advertised’’, but
when the cut-off bidding date
in October passed, no bids
from industrial developers
were received.

Ald. Elko Kroon question-
ed the recommendation to
have the soil tests, asking if it
wasn't a case cf ‘‘the City
spending money for the
developers”’

But Ald. Frank Marcino
said ‘‘we should certainly set
the price on the land accor-
ding to what the tests show
(and) sell it more readily. |
know it used to be a duck-
pond there ... but it needn't
necessarily detract from the
quality of the land."’

NEWS photo Ellsworth Dickson

Mayor Jack Loucks said it
STUDENTS AT Queen Mary School give a big cheer for four of their classmates who topped the annual hose drill competition run by

. was the City Engineer's opi-
North Van City fire department. Chief Dick Hallaway and Inspector Perry Maans presented the trophy to nion that the land would get a

bid if the tests were
compieted.

May Leung, Sanam Bakhtar, Jason Stcyer and Clayton Powers.

Getting
wet and
wetter

SO YOU think we get a lot of
rain.

Consider the situation at
Jamieson Creek, located
north of the city in the Sey-
mour Watershed.

While 9.05 inches of rain
— the highest in 26 years —
was recorded at Vancouver
international Airport during
the first 17 days of Novem.
ber, the Jamieson Creek rain
gauge recorded 36 inches dur.
ing the same penod.

Nearly 8 inches was record
ed at Jamieson Creek on one
day, November 15. That was
the day a storm caused slides
in the watershed areas caus
ing high turbidity in the
drinking water in some areas
of Greater Vancouver

Gteater Vancouver
Regional District officials say
the water is gradually clear
ing though turbidity 1s sull
particularly noticeable in the
West End and Kitsilano areas
of Vancouver and in the Uni
versity) Endowment Lands a eras ory of
The water is safe to drink “ sai

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