THE CORPORATION OF THE
CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

MEMORANDUM

TO: City Administrator July 23, 1987

FROM: City Engineer

SUBJECT: Request for Sewer Pump to serve Yarmouth Street
Subdivision

Recommendation:

That the developer be required to instal | a gravity sewer
through City parkland to the sewer main on Pitt River Road.

Background and Comments:

Prior to the start of any development in the south Pitt
River Road area, a sewer servicing plan was prepared which
allowed the entire area to be serviced by gravity into the one
pump station constructed on Brown Street. In the first phase
af development of Citadel Piace, +he developer chose not To
construct the deep outfall which would serve the entire area
wast of Pitt River Road but instead installed a shallow sewer
main which was not deep enough to pick up the south end of the

developable area.

The developer now wishes to develop a subdivision at 1120
Yarmouth Street. This land is too low to be picked up by the
shallow sewer constructed previously. There are three possible
solutions to the development of this property.

1. The deep sanitary sewer as proposed in the original
servicing plan could be constructed. This requires a
right-of-way through the City owned Kroeker Park and
also through the Shell Canada property at the corner
of Pitt River Road and the Mary Hill Bypass. This
latter right-of-way was required as a condition of the
rezoning of the Shell property and The City holds a
security deposit for the development of that land. A
complication with the route through the City park is
the crossing of Baker Creek which is sensitive to the
Fisheries Department. Fisheries have said that the
only feasible crossing is on the south side of the
park at the location of fhe footbridge. This location
is feasible from a sewer point of view.

The subject subdivision property could be raised by
filling and a gravity sewer connection made to the
existing sewer on Harbour Street. This, however,
would require raising of the access road into the park

by ten feet above ground level. This would not be a

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