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64 Pages

Water

By lan Nobile

News Reporter
jan@nsnens.com

Atop water district offi-
cial assured North Shore
residents that the
impending work on
Cleveland Dam won’t
affect drinking water
quality.

Greater Vancouver Water District
manager John Morse said that when
a $20-million to $25-million con-
struction program to repair a seepage
problem at the dam begins in 1999,
the Seymour reservoir will be the sole
water source for the majority of the
North Shore.

That water source was temporari-
ly removed from service two years
ago, when a landslide in the water-
shed muddied the reservoir waters.
Morse, however, said he’s not wor-
ried that North Shore users will have
a water supply problem during the

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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

STEVE Sproston and Linda Kranitz get an up-close and personal look at the Cleveland Dam on Sunday. The dam’s east abutment
is in for even more scrutiny, as the Greater Vancouver Water District has approved a design study for seepage-prevention work.

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Police investigate shooting incident in Edgemont area

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com

THREE bullets ripped through a wall and
window of a home on Edgemoni Boulevard
on Monday during a drive-by shooting.

No one was injured in the incident, although the police say
occupants of the house at 2482 Edgemont Bivd. were home at the
dime of the 44 p.m. incident.

“We are looking at all possible motives for it ... It was not a ran-
dom drive-by,” said North Vancouver RCMP Const. Tom

Seaman.

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Police recovered the bullets and shell casings, bur declined to
say what type of gun was used. Police say no vehicle description was
obtained. One bullet went through the home's master bedroom
window.

A man living in the house told police he had a civil disagree-
ment over house renovations with another man.

Seaman said the police had no suspeets.

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showed no obv gens of the shooting. A woman with blond
ider-length hair who answered the front door told the News,
“We have nothing to say Would you please get off our property.”

The police are asking anyone with information about the shoot-
ing to call Crime Stoppers at 669-TIPS or North Vancouver
RCMP Set. Brad Marks of the serious crime section at 985-1311.

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NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

THIS home was hit by three bullets on Monday dur-
ing a drive-by shooting near Edgemont Village.