A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 10, 2002

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ROCK DRILLING

equipment and blasting |s the order of the day on the section

of the Nisga'a Highway as it winds along beside Lava Lake leading into the
Nass Valley, More than $50 million wil! have been spent by the time work is fin-
ished within the next several years on the improvements.

Road work continues
on Nisga’a Highway

CONSTRUCTION
CREWS are well on their
way to finishing one of the
more complicated legs of
the multi-million dollar
project to improve the
highway into and in the
Nass Valley. ~

Rock drilling and blast-
ing to widen the stretch of
the Nisga’a Highway as it
winds along Lava Lake is
proceeding on schedule,
says transportation mini-
stry official George Lomas.

“There are tons of rock
to be moved,” said Lomas
of the project which in-
valves blasting inte rock
and then using it as fill
along the lakeshore io
widen the road.

“In all, 221,000 cubic
metres of material will be
moved,” he said.

The infilling is taking
place gradually. to allow
the material to settle in
the lake before the next
layer is deposited.

That settling will do
away with the chances of
the material moving after
paving is complete,. said
Lomas.

Project ‘specifications
call for the section to be
-completed and paved: by
September 2003.

The Lava Lake section
will be 8.2 metres wide,
the same width as other
portions of the Nisga’a
Highway improvement
project, Lomas added.

The construction has
meant complete closures
overnight and minor delays
during the day.

The Lava Lake section
is but ane of a series of
improvements to cost more
than $50 million by the

Two sent
to prison

ONE FORMER Terrace
resident and an Albertan
man were jailed July 2
after pleading guilty to
various counts of thefts
from vehicles,

Nicholas House, 21, a

former resident of Terrace-

who now lives in Alberta,
and. Thomas Foss, 22,
pleaded guilty to theft over
$5,000 and three counts of
theft under $5,000, ¢

Police said they ar-
rested House and Foss
after they received com-
plaints from residents near
Clark St. in Thornhill of
thefts from vehicles.

The suspects were driv-
ing a Honda CRY, which
was located in the 3400
block of Clark St., police
said.

The vehicle had been
stolen from Medicine Hat,
Alberta on June 24, police
added.

Both men were located
near the vehicle which
contained stolen goods

‘from vehicles in the area.

Foss was sentenced to
21 days in jail for each of
the four counts to be
served concurrently.

House was sentenced to
three months in jail for the
theft over $5,000 charge
and 10 days for each count
of theft under $5,000 also

_ to be served concurrently.
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time everything is done in
2006.

Already a section of the
highway leading to the
Lava Lake stretch has
been completed and
paved. In the valley itself,
two sections are being
worked on toward Green-
ville and another section
of the road to that Nisga’a
village is to be raised.

That'll do away with
fleoding from the Nass
River during high water
years, said Lomas.

Part of that work will
involve measures to safe-
guard fish populations and
a new bridge, he added,

The transportation mini-
stry will be grouping some
af the paving projects to-
pether in one contract.

“We hope to encourage
bidding by several compa-
nies,” explained Lomas.

When finished, every
kilometre of road leading
into the Nass Valley and
the"séctions to Greenville
and New Aiyansh will be
paved.

Also on the lst is a
10km paving project from
New Aiyansh east to Nass

Camp.

As well, the sections of
sealcoating already in
place through the lava
beds themselves north of
Lava Lake will be re-
placed by pavement.

While those sections
are in good shape, says
local transportation official
Don Ramsay, laying down
asphalt follows on a com-
mitment made when the
highway improvement pro-
ject was first announced.

That has increased the
cost of the overall project
but it will be absorbed
within the transportation
ministry’s budget, he said.

“In fact there are some
vertical and horizontal
[road] alignment issues
we'll be addressing as
well,” said Ramsay.

That work will make
the road all the more safer,
he added.

The Nisga’a Highway

_improvement project will
reduce significantly the

travel time north of Ter-
race to the Nass Valley.
It?s also expected to
spur economic develop-
ment such as tourism.

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