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-L- school days as two classes .
“ gathered over the weekend
~for reunions. On top, Penny
Haigh of the Class of 65,
-prepares just one reminder,
To the right, Megan Smaha,
. Juliana (Batagelj) White and
Garbrielle (Phillips) White, all
"from the Class of 80, greeted
“those attending a wine, and
a cheese 8 party.

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 8, 1990 — rae A

ity looks at way |

to increase water _

TERRACE -- With the city's
water supply having failed to
keep pace with demand for the

second consecutive summer, the

city is taking a look at ways to
increase its reservoir capacity.
Engineering director Stew
Christensen said one. solution
would be to construct a new

dam and reservoir to replace the [i

existing ones at Deep Creek.

The project could cost up to |
$300,000 but it would increase fj

the water supply 30-fold.
Christensen explained the ex-
isting reservoir only holds

enough water to meet upto one .

day’s summer demand. During
a hot, dry spell, the city relies on
additional water drawn from
the Skeena River,

But even that is not enough to
meet peak summer. demand,

Christensen said. On the July °

28-29 weekend, demand hit
more than 20 million litres per
day, 4 million litres more than
the maximum that can be
pumped from the Skeena.

As a result, the level of the
Deep Creek reservoir dropped
more than two feet over that

weekend — it’s only six feet .

deep when at capacity. Faced
with the possibility of the reser-
voir being completely drained,

he said the city had no option «
but to toughen up sprinkler’:

restrictions introduced two
weeks earlier. Residents can
now only use sprinklers far two
hours every second-day.
Christensen said the new
reservoir would be created by

Stew Christensen

constructing an earth dam
across 4 ravine just to the south
of Deep Creek, Initially water
from the creek would be

. diverted into the ravine but once
the new reservoir was filled the’

ereek would then follow its nor-

“mal course.

Both larger and deeper *—
10-12 metres — than the present

‘reservoir, he estimated the new

catch basin would hold a 30 day
supply.
While that would reduce the

city’s dependence on the

Skeena, Christensen cautioned
it would not eliminate it com-
pletely. The problem was water
pipes running from the system’s
chiorination plant to the Wilson
Ave. distribution station were
not large enough to carry the
volume required to meet sum-
mer demand.

Heat fails to set

TERRACE — It got hot in Ju-
ly, but the hottest it got wasn’ta
record, according to the local
weather office.

Forecaster Harry Earl. said
top temperature for the month
was recorded on Sunday, July
29 when the mercury touched
32.9 degrees. Sweltering though
that might have been, it failed
to equal the highest ever record-
ed for that date — 34.4 — and
was well short of the 35.6 all
time record for the month set on
July 30, 1971.

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Sprinkle
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TERRACE — While” local
gardeners may have welcomed
last week's rain, the city’s
engineering director warns :it
doesn’t mean an end to the
latest sprinkler restrictions.

Describing the water level in
the Deep Creek reservoir as
“‘critical,’’ Stew Christensen
said it would take ‘‘substantial
rainfall’? to alleviate the situa-
tion,

Based on past experience, he
added, that meant it would like-
ly be mid-September before the
water level in the reservoir was
sufficient to allow the restric-
tions to be lifted. Until that
happened, the restrictions
would remain in effect.

At present, residents of even-
numbered houses can use their
sprinklers only between 9 p.m.
and {1 p.m. on even-number
days with the same limits apply-
ing to odd-numbered houses on
odd-numbered days.

Offenders face a minimum
fine of $100 up to a maximum
of $500, said Christensen.

record

Despite all that sunshine,
however, the driest July on
record remains that of 1960
when only 5mm of percipitation
was measured. This year the
rainfall total was 16.8mm_ in-
cluding 11.6mm on the first day
of the month, -

_ Anda final figure for weather
stat buffs — the average daily
high temperature was 24.8
degrees, Although that was 3.5
degrees above normal, Earl said
it also fell short of a record.

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