TERRACE — Local residents could be facing water use restrictions as early as the first - week of June unless the city can get a proposed water well on Stream. - Citing a low snow pack in the Deep Creek watershed, engineering director Stew Christensen warned ‘‘we could run out of water in Deep Creek as early as June 1.”’ - If that happens and the well is not yet operational, the city will be completely dependent on water pumped from the Skeena ” River. However, the size of the pipes from the pumphouse limits the amount the city can draw from the river to 16 million litres a day, way below the more than 20 million litres daily demand can hit during a hot spell. “Therefore, a spell of fine - weather in the early summer could see sprinkler restrictions being introduced more than two months earlier than 1990, described by Christensen as the city’s worst year in terms of water shortage. Although exploratory drilling for water is expected to begin within the next week, opera- tions manager John Colongard Stew Christensen said it’s impossible to predict when a well might be in piace. Assuming the test welis locate a water source, how quickly a production well could be built would depend on how long it took to obtain necessary materials such as a well screen. A pumphouse would also have to be constructed and the well tied into the city’s water system, he added, And until the test drilling is carried out and flow rates calculated, there’s no way of telling how much water a well system could provide. Test drilling contract given TERRACE — A drilling crew will begin probing beneath the city within the next week, but it won't be oil it’s looking for, Industrial Drillers) Ltd. of” Prince George has been award- ed ‘a $68,000 contract to carry out test drilling for water. at Christy Park and C.D. Adams Park (that’s a piece of ~ undeveloped land near Braun St. on the city’s southside eat vherb. Engineering foreman Dusdal said the exploratory drilling will involve putting down test holes at each site to determine the quantity and quality of any sub-surface water. The contract price covers drilling to a maximum depth of 400ft. at each location, but city staff anticipate it may not be necessary to go that deep to find an adequate water supply. A. second, observation hole would then be drilled at the more promising of the two sites, 300ft. from the test one. Ex- plaining the need for the obser- vation hole, Dusdal said it would show whether there was enough sub-surface water at thal location to justify: construc- tion of a production well. Pumping water from the test well would obviously lower the water level there. However, if it also caused a sharp drop in the ‘observation hole level, that would indicate the total water availability at that location was insufficient. The test drillings would also provide information’ on flow rates and the types of material found below the surface, necessary when. it came to designing the final production well. Depending on the results at the first two sites, Dusdal said i ihitd test hole, at Kerr (Rotary) Park, again on the southside. Engineering director Stew Christensen said site selection for the test drills had been based on the distribution needs of the water system and the ease of ty- ing into it. While Christy Park was the preferred location for a produc- tion well — the system's pipes there have a larger capacity — one at C.D. Adam Park would enable the city to increase the water pressure at the west end of town. Estimating the cost of a pro- duction well at approximately $250,000, Christensen said it would also be necessary to con- struct a pump house, He an- ticipated an approximately 800 sq.ft, building would be re- quired, about the size of the ex- isting Skeena River pumphouse, Money for the well project will come out of the water fund’s $750,000 surplus. Women’s centre receives money TERRACE — Local Women’s Resource Centre staff are cautiously optomistic in the wake of th provincial govern- ment’s recent announcement it will get more money. Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht said Victoria’s double-barreled financial boost will provide the centre with a $15,000 ' one-time, ‘‘stabiliza- tion grant’’ and, beginning with ‘the 1992-93 fiscal year, an an- nuat operating grant of $37,500. The stabilization money ‘could be used to cover expen- ditures such as office supplies ‘and training programs while the annual grant could be directed at all aspects of the centre’s : _ operations, he added. Reacting enthusiastically to the news, centre staffer Karla ‘Hennig said having a guaranteed annual operating grant would end the uncertainty “faced each March as the end of the financial year approached with no word on money to keep it going. She said the provincial grant will also double the amount of : money the centre receives each year, assuming the ‘federal government came through with the core funding it had re- quested for 1992-93. That, in turn, would allow the centre to betler meet the ever-increasing demand for its services, Pointing out the centre relies on just two half-time employees at present, Hennig said the centre had dealt with more than 140 phone calls and 74 drop-ins in February alone, “We find we're stretched beyond the limit,” she added. - The extra money could be us- ed to increase the number of hours the centre was staffed and allow it to introduce new pro- grams which, while much need- ed, couldn't be introduced before now for lack of staff time and money. 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