Demands for action get louder as stink lingers By DAVID TAYLOR RESIDENTS LIVING near the Terrace sewage treatment plant say they can’t stand the foul smell coming from the site anymore, And now some of them want the city to pay. “Fixing it isn’t good enough,’? says Diana McKay. ‘‘We want compensation.”’ McKay and others who live in the area com- plain that the smell coming from the treatment plant is so bad that it actually wakes them up at night. **You can’t leave your windows open or even sil outside sometimes,’’ says Patsy Chase, a resident of Pear Street. “It’s so gross. It smells like you're standing right next to the sewage,”’ Other residents question the health effects of the smell. ‘Te’s enough to make you throw up,’’ says one elderly resident of Mills Street, who refused ¥ to give her name, ‘‘We came here to retire, but I can’t take this. We’re older people and this can’t be healthy.’’ Another resident, living on Graham Street, says she feels like the people have been betrayed by the City of Terrace. “They assured us when they built the plant that there would be no smell,” says Gwen Ames. ‘Two years ago there was a smell and they tried to blame it on the weather. This time the smell has been horrible for over a month. You can actually taste it sometimes — it’s that strong.’* Diana McKay owns The Garden Shed, a gar- den supply store on Graham Street. She says not ‘DRIVING THE Nisga’a A1i0 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 11, 1997 Foul stench gags residents only does the smell linger in her home and shop, but it’s driving away business. “t's hard enough to min a smafl business with competition like it is, and now this,"”’ she says. “I have customers leaving with kleenex over their noses. It’s hideously embarrassing.”’ McKay says the smell has been bad for nearly two months — far too long in her opinion. “They should have fixed it when they had this “The smell has been horrible for over a month. You can actually laste it sometimes — it’s that strong.” problem two years ago,’’ she says. “If they have to build another plant they should put in Frank’s Field by the mayor’s house so he can smell it.”’ McKay has a Ictter sent to area residents from the old District of Terrace in 1984. The letter suggests that odour from the proposed aerated lagoons would not be a problem. She says copies of the letter have been sent to her lawyer for possible legal action. “We were misled and we should be com- pensated,’’ McKay says. ‘‘Being confronta- tional is not usually the best way to do things, but this has been nearly two months of dis- gustingness. It’s ruined our Spring.’* Meanwhile, the city continues testing at the site. The engineering department says a com- plete assessment of the test results should be ready within two weeks, . THE BAD SMELL in the neighbourhoods surrounding the city’s sewage treatment plant is also bad for business, according to Garden Shed owner Diana McKay. - Highway dust-up fix in works Gov't to abandon some pavement on Hwy 37 ELAN travel Elan Travel would like to Congratulate the Terrace Community Band on a job-well done at the Music Festival ‘97 in Ottawa. Highway should be a little less harrowing by next week as the high- ways minisiry works to improve road conditions in the Nass. Kitimat-Stikine Regional District director Harry Nyce told the board at a meeting two weeks ago that extremely dusty conditions along the highway were putting - . drivers in jeopardy. And he said repeated re- quests by the Nisga’a for the highways ministry to do something about the ‘ptoblem had ‘been ‘ig- nored, ‘*They’re losing the war with dust up there,’’ Nyce Nyce was especially an- noyed by a tetter from the ‘ ministry stating that dust control standards were al- ready being exceeded by the area’s maintenance contractor. ‘Obviously the stan- dard is not adequate,” said Area D~ director Dave Brocklebank, who is having similar prob- lems with Highway 37 North. But Randy Penner of the highways ministry Harry Nyce said last week the minis- said. ““The road is in ter- try is- taking dust control rible condition and the measures in the Nass, and dust is a constant source things should be better by of irritation for visitors this week. and residents alike.’’ ‘‘Historically, because of weather in the valley we don’t do dust control until after May,’’ he says. “But this May was un- usuaily dry, so the dust was worse.”’ Penner says calcium will be laid down to help control the dust, and gravel will be brought in to fix some of the worst sections. ‘*Within a week and a half it will look quite a bit different up there,’’he says. Meanwhile, some 60 kilometres. of seal-coat along Highway 37 North are being torn up because the ministry can’t afford to maintain it. Caledonia Sr. MAY_19-THROUGH Sart ep ae Secondary 1997 Annuals are on sale at the office. ‘2 JUNE 14 ONLY. 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