City won’t be deterred by water complaints Water facts NO CHANGES are planned for the city’s water supply in spite of protests from some people complaining about the hardness of the new well water. Red Carpet Colfec Ser- vices . complained about deposits in the water fouling the company's coffee ma- chines. Other residents say the .. Water doesn’t. make for. good tea and that it takes more | soap or detergent to form suds. ‘Cily director of engincer- _ ing Stew Christensen told . councillors last’ Wednesday _ that talk about changing the water has now prompted ‘some people to come to the defence of the $1.6 million . cily well, Lo: He said owners of water - filter systems find the filters ‘ don’t plug up as much as ' they had when the cily was ‘pumping turbid, dirty water my ~ from the Skeena in the fall. “We're gelting it from . .. both sides now,’’ he said. Christensen said recent . testing shows the well water. is a lot harder than the old Deep Creek source, but nowhere near as hard as “many other communities in the province. The testing found Ter- race’s new well had a water hardness index of 171. That’s well under the Ca- nadian standard Gor drinking water that sets a limit of 560, The index for the old Deep Creek source was only 8. -Thomhill’s two sources have hardness of 70 aud 96. Six of the nine wells that supply Prince George have Town Hardness Calcium Terrace well 171 58 Previous sources: -DeepCreek 8 2.5 -Skeena River 48 15 Thornhill 83 30 Smithers 63 17 Pr, George 200 47 Quesnel 190 . 61 Above numbers are averages of readings from several different sources for each community. For ex ample, Prince George has nine different wells, with hardness ranging from 97 to 337, for an average hardness of 200, harder water than Terrace’s’ well —— with the average: reading for that community of 200, , All’ of the wells serving Quesnel alsa have harder waler than Terrace, However, calcium levels in Terrace’s well are on the high end of the scale com- pared to the other com- munities. He said he contacted Red Carpet. Coffee ‘dealers in Prince George and was told that the machines need to be cleaned weekly and be com- pletely rebuilt’ every six months. Christensen recommended no changes to the water sys- tem, noting the well water is much safer than when organics from Deep Creek and turbid sediment-laden water from the Skeena River was piped to homes, He said the new water consumes just five per cent of the chlorine that the old sources did, and said there's a possibility the water is so free of bacteria or parasites that the city may be able to slop chlorination altogether. Okanagan communities like Kelowna and Kamloops thal rely on surface water. were plagued for months this ycar by boil water ad- visories in the wake of a scare about a parasitic con- taminant. Christensen said that situation can hurt the econa- my as well as residents’ health, Chiristensen said it’s pos- sible the water will either get harder or softer as more gets pumped. *‘Tt could go cither way,’” he said, but added a dramatic change is unlikely, Councillors agreed the waler is much safer and de- cided that the cily should continue monitoring — the waler, but make no changes. © Thornhill Water System © Street lights © Gymnastic Centre @ Fire protection ® Parks ‘VOTE LES WATMOUGH for Regional District Representative Bring Back Les Watmough: © Lesseryed 17 yeos onthe Regional Districl Board ; © Les was Chair of the Boord for twa years ® Les has the sirength to get Thornhill concerns heord at the Regional Boord table. _ Les Has Brought To Thornhill: ® (lueenswoy Sewer © Bus System ® Offical Community Flan * Fair Grounds r © Dag Control :.- © Community Holl © Zoning © Soccer & Boll Fields ® defend the interests of Thornhill © listen to all residents Les Watmough Will: © Work towards bingo liveable community © put the interests of the Thornhill community first and Foremost. © work fawards improving servicing standards © moke sure your tnx dollars ore used effectively Vote Saturday, Nav. 16, 8:00 - B:00 ot Thornhill Elementary School Need a ride on Election Day? 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