Sharon Lamke and Irma Brewer have been volunteering at the Terrace

Churches food bank for five years, The food bank doled out 515 bags of
food last week, at the first distribution of the season. That's up from last

™ Food bank op

year when 427 bags were given out. The food bank needs donations.

Fixing sewer pipe

to be more expensive

than first thought |

REPAIRING the ruined
sewage outfall pipe in the
Skeena River will cost the
city much more than it
first thought.

The lowest bid for the
complex project came in
$200,000 higher than city
officials budgeted —
meaning that much extra
money will have to be
found in the 2000 budget.

Councillors weren’t
happy with the turn of
events, but went with the
staff recommendation to
award the contract to

Mandrax Enterprises Ltd,:..--

for $648,462. Two other

bidders had come in at

$733,000 and $895,000.
“T have a problem with

the cost, but I don’t think
we have any option,” said
councillor Val George.

The pipe, which pre-
viously had a kink in it,
stopped working altage-
ther in this summer’s
flood. It’s not yet known
whether it was hit by a
floating log or what hap-
pened,

Sewage backing up out
of the pipe has been chan-
nelled first with a ditch
and later with a temporary
pipe to the river.

The new outfall pipe

will have-a-special-arm--

oured layer above it to
prevent damage. The pipe
has to extend well out into
the fast-running part of

the river.

It’s a big job that will
involve placing a barge in
the middle of the river
while work goes on.

The bids for the outfall
replacement don’t include
other cosis of the project
such as engineering costs,
environmental monitor-
ing, administration and
expenses so far,

Engineering director
Stew Christensen said the
city had budgeted
$600,000 in 1999 for the
whole project, but will
now-have-to.find-another

$200,000 in the :2000

budget because of the
higher than expected bids.

Repairs
coming

TRAIL REPAIRS to da-
maged parts of the Ferry
Island trail system have
been approved by cily
council,

Two sections of trail
about 60 metres long pot
washed oul during this
summer's flooding.

Those areas are going
to be rebuilt and shored up
with imported gravel,

Recreation superinten-
den! Steve Scott said
that's the best way to both
restore the trail sectiuns to
use and protect the the no-
w-exposed roots of stands
of alder, birch and cotton-
wood trees on the island.

Another low-lying arca
is also being improved. It's
an inland scclion of the
trail thal gels submerged
frequently by the high
water table. Gravel will be
added there to build up the
trail area, said Scott.

It'll take up to two
weeks to pel the work
done and the expected
cost of $4,000 is coming
out of the city parks de-
partment budget.

Scott says this year's
flooding caused the most
damage to Ferry Island's
trails since he's been here.

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