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A Ministry of Highways geotechnical crew is helping to make a section of Hwy. 37
a little safer. Frank Maxirnchuk of the Terrace geotechnical office says the crew
, travels the province scaling rock faces to remove any potential danger and in the
! case of this particular bluff, located a few hundred yards south of the 16/37
intersection, havé rethoved one rock that could have fallen on the highway that he
‘described as being “substantially larger" than the average family sedan.

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A. retired couple from. Oregon

“Ss. each summer, for gore than .a
fe decade are thinking

4 . somewhere else for. their - future
§ os. holidays.)

hes The two were; camped in the
rn Copper River. Flats. area cast of -
Y Sos Terrace last Friday when Kitselas.

, Band. members nailed .up, a No

who have been coming.to Terrace -

about going.

dirt access roads into the area with

“a backhoe, Copper River Flats is a
‘popular: place for fishing and
. youths aré often seen there. riding

dirt bikes and ail-terrain vehitics.
It is also part of the Kitselas
Band's reserve lands, although
until last week. there WET TO signs
indicating, sO.

|. Disgruntled tourists caught
; finland action, fee hikes -

‘Trespassing sigh. oe ripped up the

The Oregon man, who declined.
to give his name, said he and fits
wife would be moving on. ‘to

Alaska. The two normally ‘spend .
two months of the summer in the

Terrace area, he said, He expreised —

sympathy with the action of the

atives, and added'that last year-he .

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1990
Vol. 6, Issue No. 29

Phone 635-7840
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by Tod Strachan

The pond at Samson’s Poultry

-Farm that took the life of six-year-

old Joey Parsons last winter when
he fell through the ice is gone... at
least for the time being.

Samson’s Poultry Farm owner
Stan Kinkead installed a 10-inch
culvert to drain the pond last week,
but it seems there may still be a

_ potential. probier:. According to
several sources, ‘the culvert is too

small to handle peak water flows
and there is a good chance it will
plug up with debris.

Neighbours living in the area of
the pond base their opinions on
simple observation, not scientific
fact, but the regional director of
the Water Management Branch in
Smithers, Wilf Dreher, offers a
much more definitive view. Based
on a 10-year average of water
flows in the Heek Brook drainage
area, a 10-inch culvert is "clearly
not adequate", according to Dreher.
He estimates that a culvert in that
section of the drainage area would
have to be at least 24 to 26 inches
in diameter to handle peak water
flows.

And then there’s the experience
of the city in that same drainage
area, City director of engineering
Stew Christensen and director of
operations John Colongard says
that sections of culvert in Heck
Brook under North Eby were
_ Replaced years ago because they

were constantly plugging up with
debris and difficult to clean out.
And that was with parallel cul-
verts; one 12-inch and the other
18-inch. The problem on North
Eby was corrected by the Minstry
of Highways about 10 years ago,
according to Christensen, when
they replaced the two smaller
cu'verts with one he estimates to
b ur to five feet in diameter.

0 where does this leave neigh-
bours affected by Samson’s block-
ing of the Heek Brook water-
course? According to sources,
probably with a temporary flood-
ing problem at times of peak water
flow, and if the 10-inch culvert
plugs with debris, probably a per-
manent pond similar to the one
they have been describing as a
hazard for at least six years.

But there is more to this update
of the ongoing saga of the Heek
Brook drainage course. Perhaps the
pond will be eliminated ance and
for all. The city is providing Sam-
son’s with fill free of charge in the
form of excess material currently
being removed in the Halliwell
upgrading project.

According to Mayor Jack Talstra,

free fill is advertised and there :

should be enough material for
Kinkead to fill an area where an
excavation for the installation of
the culvert is causing the erosion

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-. Harcourt in Terrace to open

NDP headq

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uarters today —

YERRACE— B.C. New Democrat leader Mike Harcourt will be.
here today for the first time in over a year to help Skoona NDP -
candidate Helmut: Giesbrecht launch the opening: of the provincial

NDP Terrace office. |

The local party branch will be occupying an oftite at 3299 Kalun
- St., the former location of the Northern Sentinel Press operations in
Terrace. The grand opening begins at 3'p.m. and the public is- inviied
- {o-take part. The NDP’s native affairs critic Gordon Hanson, Atlin
MLA Larry Guno and Prince Rupert MLA Dan Milter are aso. :

‘schedited to. be there. Further, information is rynllable a E3S-4116.

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