Page A2 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 5, 1992

Don't blame high water

sunken graves

TERRACE — The appearance
of sink holes in the focal
cemetary is not related to the
high water table problems being
experienced in the area, says the
city's recreation director.

Pointing out such depressions
appeared every year, Steve Scott
emphasized, ‘‘There’s nothing
unusual in that at all.’

Nor is it surprising, because
“it’s only wood down there and
in a wet, moist environment, it’s
going to rat out at some point.’’

When sink holes appear in a
gravesite that has been smooth-
surfaced for many years, the
most likely explanation is ‘‘the
pine box has given way,’’ Scott
said,

Although he could not tell for
certain, Scott suggested affected
graves lacked the fibre-glass
liner that is. now used in many
burials. This forms a canopy
over the coffin so that when it
does eventually ret through, the
ground above does not slough
In.

Where there has been a col-
lapse, Scott said the turf is roll-
ed back, the depression filled

level to the surface and the turf
put back in place.

Although there were na
figures available to tell if the
number. of affected graves was
greater than normal, he said the

‘ number: normally varied from

year-to-year,
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The next step in finding a
solution to the problem of
flooded basements on Halliwell
should be taken this week, says
the city’s engineering director.

Drilling for core samples will
determine whether there is a
seam of clay below the surface
in the Halliwell area, the depth
at which its located and its
thickness, he said.

It has been suggested that
such a clay layer exists beneath
the west section of the bench
and is acting rather like a bowl,
containing the water from the
months of heavy rainfall and in
turn causing the extremely high
water table in the area.

The exact locations of the
drilling would be determined by
Bob Graham, the geo-technical
engineer hired by the city. Sub-

ALTHOUGH oon rain n last week brought “the water table within
four feet of the surface of the cemetary, that’s not causing the ap-
pearance of sink holes like those above, A city official says it faces
the phenomenum every year.

soil samples will be taken from
different depths and sent to
Graham for analysis and
permeability tests.

Armed with the information
from the drilling, Graham
should be able to recommend
measures to end the problem,

Bench flooding continues

TERRACE — While the city
waits for word on what to do,
Halliwell residents are left to
battle the water flooding into
their basements as best they
can.

But one of those residents,
Olivo Tessaro,.says it's becom-'
ing a losing battle.

Even with pumps running
round the clock, Teéssaro said
the level of water in his base-
ment rose three-quarters of an
inch during last week’s

downpours,

That heavy rain brought the
water table up ta its highest
level yet, he added. A check last
Thursday of the level in a pit
dug in his front yard had shown |
the water was eight inches above
its previous peak.

And Tessaro’s literally losing |

sleep over the situation,

’ When high winds were
forecast. last Wednesday,
Tessario stayed up all night in
case power lines were downed

by falling trees.

No power would, of course,
mean no pumping and a rapid
rise in the water level in the
basement. Because the rising
waters would snuff cut the pilot
light on his furnace — it’s in the
basement — Tessario had to be
ready to turn off the gas should
the power fail.

Tessaro also warned the high §

water table is beginning to cause
septic fields to fail.

Group aids soup kitchen

TERRACE —The Terrace
Anti-Poverty Group Society's
soup kitchen is getting financial
help from the Kermode Friend-
ship Centre.

edepery cotifribilting ‘up to°$15000

a month between‘ now-and: the
end of March for wages and

" supplies, centre executive direc-

tor Dorothy Davidson said last
week,

from front

Ave age

‘We particularly want to
help with the students’ part of
it,” said Davidson,

The soup kitchen, located in
the Lutheran church on Sparks

noon aid 1 p.m. for students

‘from area schools,

Davidson said the commit-
ment to the end of March mat-
ches the end of the friendship

Polluters’ list.

in 1991. A warning letter was
issued requiring the mill fix the
problem. The environment
ministry reports ‘‘significant
improvement’’.

Alcan also gets a second men-
tion on a secondary list of con-
taminated waste sites that don’t
violate permits but are a pollu-
tion concern,

Cyanide and fluoride leachate
from the aluminum smelter’s
landfill is contaminating nearby
groundwater, The ministry says
significant quantities of special
hazardous wastes were iandfill-
ed in accordance with permits,
but those materials are now
leaching out into the ground-
water. ;

The company has diverted
uncontaminated surface water
away from the area and is to
come up with more plans to fix
the groundwater problem. It’s

Alcan's fourth time on the’

. secondary list.

A Moricetown beehive

_ burner, operated by Kyah

ne

SFP Cee eR ree eee

Forest Products, also gets men-
tion as a pollution concern in
the area. Complaints about

smoke emissions have prompted
the environment ministry to call
on the company to upgrade the
burner and apply for an emis-
sions permit.

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centre’s financial year.

**We've heard of the provin-

cial government's school lunch
program but we don’t know any
details,” She said, ;
“And we have to look at our
financial commitment (for the
centre’s new financial year) in
terms of our resources,’’ David-
son added.

Antipoverty group

spokesman Gerald King said it-

welcomed the contribution.

' The group had been running
the soup kitchen from dona-
tions and from bingo proceeds.
- The soup kitchen. was run
briefly last spring by the group
and was revived in December
just prior to the Christmas
break.

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TERRACE — Eurocan Pulp
and Paper is appealing its
conviction last month on
pollution charges.

The company was found
guilty by provincial court
Judge Ed de Walle of
discharging waste into the
environment in connection
with a June, 1990 accident at
its Kitimat pulp mill.

A pumphouse valve failed
and 41,000 gallons of bunker
‘C’ oil ended up in the mill’s
landfill.

The company is appealing
on the same grounds it
defended the original charges
— it says no offence was
committed because the spill
stayed on company property.

Eurocan’s lawyers argtie¢
that the company’s property
is not legally part of the en-
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ment claims the spill didn’t
enter: the ‘environment’ ‘‘as
that word is used in the
Waste Management Act.”

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the appeal,

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