GVRD WASTING
PUBLIC $$$

HALF BILLION $$ WATER FILTRA-
TION/CHLORINE BOOSTER
SYSTEM PROPOSED TO COUNTER
EFFECTS OF WATERSHED LOGGIN G

- Irresponsible decisions to log our drinking water supply watersheds has resulted in increased sedimenta-
tion of our water Supply that not only increases the need for chlorination, but also has forced upten us the
need for a filtration system estimated to cost $500 million.

- The FWA, who are backing logging to protect 20 logging jobs, deny the obvious link

and sedimentation, but the fact remains that the onl

our access-restricted watershed is logging.

causing increased sedimentation.

- It is well established scientific fact that old-growth forests produce the highest quality water, and until
the 1960's, Vancouver was able to brag about its continuous protected old-growth forests and the highest
quality water.

- Since the advent of logging, we have seen a steady decline in water quality, yet foresters who now
manage the watershed (and whose jobs depend on logging) desperately claim there is no link.

~ A study done in 1991 claimed io find no conclusive link between logging and sedimentation. This Study
was flawed because two of the key experts had serious conflicts of interest in favour of logging.

- If we stop the logging now, we may be able to avoid the tremendous cost of filtration by allowing the

damaged areas to heal and allow the remaining old-growth forest to act as the natural filters that nature
made thern.

THE PUBLIC DEMANDS THAT THE GVRD
POLITICIANS STOP WASTING OUR MONEY.

THE NEXT ELECTION WILL FOCUS ON THE
TREMENDOUS. WASTE OF TAXPAYERS $$$$ -
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE !! iat

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