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

Phone 635-7840
Fax 635-7269

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, fave refhoved one rock that could have fallen on the highway that he
‘described as being “substantially larger" thar! the average family sedan.

of Disgruntled tourists caught

jn land action, fee hikes —

A. retired couple from, Oregon
who have been coming.to Terrace
cach summer. for more than .a
decade are’ ‘thinking about going
somewhere else fap their: future»
holidays..© et
The two: were: camped in ‘the
Copper River Flats. area east of -
Terrace last Friday when Kitscias.
Band. members relied up. a' "No

‘Trespassing sigh if tipped up the

dirt decess roads into the area with
‘a backhoe. Copper River Flats is a
popular place for fishing and
youths aré often sccn there riding
dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicics.
It is also part of the Kitselas

Band's reserve lands, although :
until lest week. there were no signs

indicating 80..

The Oregon man, who 10 declined.
to give his name, said he and his ©
wife would be moving on. ‘to
Alaska. The two normally ‘spend.
two months of the summer in the

Terrace area, he said. He expressed

‘sympathy with the action Of the

patives, and added that last year. he.

Fa

al pond -
drained...

for now —

by Tod Strachan

The pond at Samson’s Pouliry

-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. probien:. 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 Heek
Brook under North Eby were
_ places years ago because they

were constantly plugging up wilh
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.
wo 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 Heck
Brook drainage course. Perhaps the
pond will be eliminated once 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 crosion

— Continued on page Aa

. Harcourt in Terrace to open
NDP headquarters today —

TERRACE— B.C. New Democrat leader Mike Harcourt wii! be .
here today for the first time.in over a year to help Skeena NDP -
candidate Helmut: Giesbrecht launch the opening ‘ofthe provinciel

NDP Terrace office. |

The local party branch will be occupying an affite at 3299 Kaluin
- St, the former location of the Northertt Sentine] Press opcrations in.
Terrace, The. grand opening begins at 3-p.m. and the public is invited
 to:take part. The NDP's native affairs critic Gordon Hanson, Atlin
MLA Larry Guno and Prince Rupert MLA Dép Miler are ato.
scheduled: to be there. Further {information is ayaliabte at 635-4146.

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