Page A6 -- Terrace Standard, Wednesday, Aprit 29, 1992

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BRIEFS.

Surprise

They never thought they'd see the day.

Kitimat-Stikine regional district directors were caught by. surprise when a group they gave money to gave some of it back.

A $3,100 grant to the North by Northwest Tourism Association to help pay fora Yukon circle tour brochure wasil't completely usedand $1,550 is going back to the regional district. —

‘They've comé in at half the cost and don’t want the rest of the’ money,’’ noted director Pete Weeber. ‘*That’s: a refreshing change.” -

Pitching in

WNeighbourhoad _ residents have joined forces with the city to clean up parkland bet- ween Gair and Dairy Aves.

Richard Krupop wrote to in February com- plaining about the number of

| immature pine trees littering

the city-owned lot, the result of snowstorm last December.

| Apart from making it dif-

ficult to walk through the’ lot, he pointed out the debris created a fire hazard.

The city has now agreed to provide refreshments and chainsaw gas and oil for the neighbourhood volunteer work party which will do the actual work.

Emphasizing it would bea one-time pilot project, coun- cil said it was conditional on

liability and fire department approval being obtained for any burning.

On the. move

Dease Lake is to become the new provincial govern- ment headquarters for the north,

now in Cassiar but, with the pending closure of the town

because, Af the, ming shut-.

way to move. xt renee B.C.. Buildings Corpora-

ment crown corporation that acts as the landiord for all provincial offices, is looking at the feasibility of construc-

Lake.

Budget climbs

The provincial aboriginal affairs ministry’s budget ‘is

year,

Figures in the provincial budget indicate planned ex- penditures of $12,499 million compared to the $7,752 allocated last year.

And most of that increase is being devoted to the grow- ing business of dealing with native issues in the province.

The ministry was given $6.44 million for that last year but will receive $9,732 ‘rilllion this year..

the city being free of any

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_ Water search is not going well

TERRACE — Still coming up dry in its attempts to find an adequate underground source of drinking water, the cily is now waiting for expert opinion on what to do next.

Following failures at the Christy Park, C.D, Adams Park and Kerr (Rotary) Park test holes, operations manager John Colongard said two fur- ther drillings were carried out.

The first was a 70ft. deep pro- | be adjacent to the Skeena River ’ ‘pumphouse at the south end of:

Kalum St. That had shown “some promise in the long term’’ as far as changes to the water intake there was concern- ed, but offered no immediate relief to the water supply pro- blem.

The other test was carried out close to the spring next to Parkside Elementary school. Colongard said that turned up only clay and mud, confirming

the spring water originated on

the bench above and surfaced

on- meeting the impervious clay:

layer at the base of the escarp- ment.

The geo-technical engineer hired by the city is now re- examining the geology of the area to determine whether [ur- ther tests should be carried out and, if so, where. His recom-

down there, plans are under; J-.,..

tion, the provincial govern- |.”

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mendations are expected this week.

The search for water reflects concern that low snow packs in the Deep Creek watershed could mean the city will be unabie to draw water from that source beyond early June, depending on rainfall,

Once that happens, it will be completely dependent on water pumped:from the Skeena River, but the pumps can only handle 16 million: litres of water daily, “about two-thirds the demand on hot summer days.

In drawing up this year’s city budget, council . set $400,000 to cover. the cost of locating and tapping an -alter- nate water supply, To date, close to one-quarter of that amount has been spent.

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