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; THE Greater Vancouver Regional District wilt award a $25 million project eariy next year to limit the amount of water seeping through the’
east abutment of the Cleveland Dam in North Vancouver. The job is scheduled to be completed in 2002. ; L

Engineer questio: ns disturbing sal |

has: to’say’ is ‘that there is a

ossibiliry that this dam wilt

reak and people wil die, and
thar’s, though
money.”

+ Sunell- Suggests
flexible plastic’ membrane “on.
: the upstream face of the dam...
= “You : could: never. havea
blow-out.: Then you weight
that. down with ‘a galvanized
grid, maybe 12 inches square .
hat-you could lay’ fight 0 on

op of it. .

x5 4You-don’t ‘have to move ee

any material.’ You: leave: the :

atural:material that’s: been...

there’ for. hundreds of thou-
ands ‘of years and you don’t
disturb’.it.:The worst. thing -

‘ou can do to’ any’ "material, is :

in-and disturb i it

o spend .

jacing a.

turb all of that ‘native materi-
al, they’re asking for a risk,
that’s my opinion of it,” he
said. .
Dennis Olson knows the
Capilano watershed well.. He
worked for GVRD as a faller
before he was injured in 1989 ©
and finished his: career with
the GVRD watershed securi-

“ty department.

He has 2 deep love for the

‘city and its mountain wilder-
ness.

Olson would like to see.

the. 76.4. square kilometre“

Capilano, watershed returned ©:

“to public access. and :.no:

longer used as a water supply.
“Drop the lake level for pub-

dic recreation. Because of its
Strategic
Capilano watershed is. the."
Alaskan’ panhandle. of the.

location, . the

Lower Mainland

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“ “Why spend an enormous
amount of money on retain-

ing the Capilano system |

when there are better water
supply options — available?

There’s a huge potential in’

the upper Seymour, better
water quality, and. there is

Coquitlam «and: Harrison.

Here we are Mickey Mousing
“with Capilano,” Olson said.
Liz James, chair ‘of the
North Vancouver-based ©
Coalition for. Accountability

_in- Government : Enterprises

(CAGE-BC), has no issue

with fixing the dam.. But she.”

said, “I’m worried that the

cost. benefit analysis of all”

available options has: not
been done.

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sooner or later the water will
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