THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT CoQuittan

ITEM II - Continued

the bottom of the handrail and the edge of the concrete deck
rather than with the four inch horizontal gap shown on the
drawings.

ITEM IIT

Re; Industrial Area Drainage

we have an en
er the Fraser

Proceed with the

internal drainage works, es are in the process of
being constructed to the Same standards.

Program standards" as it applies
- to Port Co at the flood waters from a storm
big enough every ten years could he removed
from the la © the river within a period of
even with the

This standard is probably realistic when dealing with
an agricultural area as long as buildings themselves are raised
above the flood levels. However, Council should rightly be
concerned about the effect of i dard of protection in
a developing industrial area. Some of the questions which shoulda

be answered are:

1. Can any level of flooding be tolerated in the
industrial area?

2. Will industries be allowed to build up their
low lying land above the flood lev2l, only to cause greater
flooding of other low lying properties?

3. Should the ditch and pumping facilities he en~
larged to move water faster?

4. Can some form of artificial storage or retention
of water on industrial land be used to reduce the ditch and
pump works required?

At this point we do not have the answers to the above
questions. We will be Preparing development cost charges by~laws
which will allow us to recover the cost of drainage works from

strial area. [It may be cheaper for

equired to regulate its own runoff rather than