TERRACE ~—~ To pay, 07 not to

pay? And if ‘yes’, how much?
Those will the questions facing

council when it decides what part

the city will play in solving the - 3 :

problem of flooded basements on
Halliwell Ave.

In making their decision,
aldermen will have before them a
report outlining the conclusions
of a hydrologist hired by the city.

Bob Graham was asked to as-
sess the situation after west end
Halliwell residents appeared at a
January council meeting demand-
ing action to end basement flood-
ing they had been enduring for
more than a month.

In his report, Graham pointed
out the rainfall experienced here
in December and January was a!-
most double the average for that
two month period,

Soil samples obtained by drill.
ing also showed the sub-soil con-
sisted of silty sand on top of a
layer of clay.

Graham said the sand was able
to absorb a lot of water but, once
there, it was very slow to drain.

“This is confirmed by the fact. .

that basement flooding continued
long after rainfall abated,” he
added.

Graham recommended owners

From front

tempt. to dispose of the assets in
one piece,

Cassiar Mining Corporation
was placed into receivership and
closed down last February after
the provincial government turned
down a request for a $13 miltion
loan. ;

As: preparations for ihe salé
continue, the population of -the
town is rapidly decreasing from
the 1,000 people who lived there
at the time of the mine closure,
Less than 200, people are now
left.

There was a large exodus last
month when school fi nished for
the year.

The hospital closed July 17 and~”

a variety of. government services -
including the social services min- -

istry and the government agent
are preparing to leave,

The post office is relocating to
nearby Good Hope Lake while
the RCMP detachment i is moving
to Dease Lake.

Approximately 30 people are
taking care of the mine site for
receiver Arthur Andersen,

From front

New jail

‘necessary to open the doors, is
$1.87 million. Completion is
estimated to take a year, .

The centre takes inmates frum
around the northwest who have
not been convicted of offences i in-
volving violence, = * -

Planning forthe new ‘facility
began in the late 1980s and news
of a replacement has long been
awaited, .
kkk * ke

The project is also the first one
in the north to. come under
provincial government hair wage:
guidelines, -

Pago A2 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 29, 1992

Halliwell flooding
solution expensive

: Stew Christensen

install a drainage system around
their homes, Water collected by
this system would then be gravily
fed to ati exterior sump.

City engineering director Stew
Christensen estimated that will
cost each householder approxi-
mately $5,000,

Getting rid of the water in the
sump is where the city may or
may not get involved.

Graham says there are two
alternatives. The first would in-
volve homeowners pumping. the
water into the existing roadside

Gigantic mine sale.

Residents are eligible for finan-

gia] assistance to leave the town

but must do so by the end of this
month to qualify.

People who want to sell their
homes to the provincial govera-
ment under an equity buy-back
plan must vacate by the end af
the month in order to qualify.

Arthur Andersen sent a letter to
Cassiar residents July 10 saying
that all those not working for the
company or for a government
agency are required to vacate by
July 31.

“'There are moving vans pulling

gut. every day,’? said long time  & Z,

stesident. and school trustee Linda
McGill.-“‘It’s- Teally. heartbreak-

Jing. The town is just disappearing .

around us.”’

McGill said people had hoped
that another company would buy
the mine and re-open it.

That option died the end of June
when Black Swan Gold Mines,
which had a conditional offer to
buy the mine, could not raise the
money it needed i in time,

“The longer it took, the less

coming

These apply to all provincial
government projects worth more
than $1.5 million or those in
which the province's contribution
to total cost is more. than
$500,000,

Workers must also have ap-
prenticeship certificates or
qualification certificates.

. Wages must be a minimum
$18.19 an hour (plus $5.71 an
hour. in benefits) for labourers
and helpers, $20.27 an hour (plus
$5.35 an hour in benefits) for car-
penters and $21.93 an hour (plus
$5.81 in benefits) for electricians.

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to mn beneath the roadside
ditches.

Christensen estimated the cost
of installing the 736m long new
drain a1 $55,000. -

He said council will have to de-
cide whether, given the drainage
problems being faced by residents
in other parts of the city, it could
afford to spend that amount of
money on a problem which ef-
fected a limited. number of

deals in the norlhwest is taking
place at Cassiar.

Up for immediate sale are
nearly 150 housing units of
various kinds that used to
belong to the Cassiar Mining
Corporation.

They include mobile homes,
modular ones and panabode
ones, says Bob Seibold of
Maynard's Auctioneers, the
company hired to dispose of
the Cassiar townsite and mine.

homes, Also up for sale are apart-
Administrator Bob Hallsor said | ment buildings and
the city could agree to either pay townhouses,

the full cost, cost share wilh the -
homeowners, or require property
owners to pay the total cost them-
selves.

If-council decides to contribute
some or all the money, it will also
face the question of where the
money is going to come from, he

The homes were once oc-
cupied by, Cassiar employees
and owned by the mining corn-
pany who sold them to workers
at subsidized mortgage rates.

The provincial government
offered an equity buy back
program but the workers are
required to vacate by month’s
end in order to qualify,

‘We've let the word out. We
wish to sell as soon as pos-
sible,” said Seibold of the
homes.

They won't be going up for
auction ia order to speed up by
the process of having them
moved out, he added...

This is not the first time
homes from a mine or other in-
dustrial project have gone on
to other places in the north-
wesk,

Accominodations from the
early 1950s construction peri-
od of Kitimat were moved
elsewhere and are still being
‘lived in today,

And, a Calgary company: last
year began selling and moving
homes from the old Kitsault
molybdenum mine site at Alice
Am.

Given there is no money in the
1992 capital budget for the pro-
ject, Hallsor explained ‘the only
way it ‘could. proceed ‘this year
was if: council decided to draw
money. from its acchiuulated sur-.
plus. a

hope there was,'? said McGill of
waiting for a purchaser.
Black Swan earlier indicated it

purchase price, preparations for
opening, working capilal and a
reclamation bond required by the
provincial government.

McGill, a school trustee, is
moving with her family to a home
they own in Atlin.

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