A UNION DISDAINED —
..but amalgamation with Terrace ots
may be the only reasonable answer
for the residents of Bobsien Crescent =.

About 35 Bobsien/Queensway area residents filled the gallery in the Kitimat-Stikine

ox, Regional District board room last Saturday morning. Among their main points were the

‘need for a second opinion on the estimated cost of installing a Bobsien/Queensway sewage

‘system, and the need for support from the regional board for a letter-writing campaign to

: the Ministry of Municipal affairs, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Environment to push
for a solution to the sewage problems plaguing the subdivision. ;

‘The residents were told they had the board’s support in the past, and would in the

- future. But the options are few. According to Thornhill director Les Watmough the

. province has said 15% is all they will contribute toward a sewage disposal system,

regardless of what kind it is. |

' That's not enough, Bobsien-Queensway Action Committee president Chris Clark told

the board. Even at 75%, the estimated $4.875 million

_ cost of a sewage system for the five-kilometre ‘stretch

leaves individual. home owners with an annual instal-

‘ment of $817 for debt retirement and operational costs.

. And on top of that, a one-time hook-up fee of about

‘$1,000. — . | |

‘The funding ceiling set by the province, however,
doesn’t take federal funding into ‘consideration. And
with that idea in mind, the discussion turned to the
portion of Queensway that is home to the Kitselas
Indian Reserve. Perhaps the Department of Indian and
Northern Affairs has some money. That option has yet
to be explored. ,

Another option, said Watmough, were five cost-
cutting measures currently being explored with Stanley
Associates Engineering of Kamloops. Stanley Associ-
ates are the firm responsible for all sewage and water
engineering estimates in Thornhill to date. The five
options, according to Watmough, include things like
smaller lift stations and a smaller mainline that could
be used individually or as a package.

Action committee vice-president Rick Hawke had
another idea, however. "Get rid of Stanley Associates,”
he told the board. "That would be the first cost cutting
measure I’d look at." Hawke explained he had talked
to local contractors and the head of a firm in Denver,
Colorado, "And the general consensus is that they’re
just about double."

Not everyone on the board agreed. Chairman Bob
Cooper suggested Hawke was "mixing up the num-

Terrace Review — April 3, 1992