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LAST year’s tax eva- sion conviction of North Shore Driving School co-owner Josephine Briton is now threatening the school’s existence.

Earlier this week, Insurance Corporation of B.C. spokesman Brian Geary confirmed the driving,

s been asked to sppear at a show-cause hearing to evplain why its licence should not be lift- ed. cording to the Motor Vehicle Act, ICBC “may suspead, cancel or refuse to issue or to renew a driver training school licence on conviction of the owner, or a person dircetly

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Catherine Barr Contributing Writer

WEST Vancouver engi- neer.Jack Milligan wants to sell the munic-

ipality its own water supply.

Earlier this vear, the Greater Vancouver Regional Distric (GYRD) decided to postpone bui ing an ozor: disinfection system in the Capilano watershed and a filera- tion plant in the Seymour watershed, but local resident Jack Milligan

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ENGINEER Jack Milligan examines a glass of clear Cypress Creek water. He'd like to see West Vancouver draw its water supply from the source, but West Vancouver obtains water from the regional system.

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thinks he has an answer to improv- ing the quality of West Vancouver water.

“What we're going to provide is clean, fresh tasting water which is pure,” he said. “In other words, there is no biological problem.”

Milligan isa retired civil engineer who now runs a private consulting business. For 33 years he worked for

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water systems has resulted in his plan for a private West Vancouver water supply.

Milligan wants to pipe Cypress Creek water north to the municipal-

Eagle Lake reservoir.

“He would then raise the Eagle Lake dam 30 feet, pass the warer through a biological filter, an ne station, then through the municipal- ity’s chlorination station before pip- ing it into the municipality’s “cross- country” main.

He said the supply could meet all of West Vancouver's water needs. The plan also includes provisions for power generation.

Milligan said the district should act now on his proposal and cannot afford to wait for the GVRD to upgrade the Lower Mainland’s water system.

“We're going to have awfully heavily-chlorinated water from the Greate Vancouver Regional District,” he said. “And the GVRD

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Ongoing, upgrades to the GVRD water system, in‘the form of re-chlo- rination stations, are currenily under But plans for an ozone water treament centre have been par on hoid and will not be considered again for several years.

GVRD spokesman Bill Morrell confirmed that because there is no ozone treatment centre, more chlo- tine is being added to water systems

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