sLegistative. Library, Parliament Bldgs., 50 ‘N&ctorin, B.C. ; Bape VOV 1x4 es TODAY'SPRAYER) O Lord, please keep us patient as we wait: for your revelations. We know you have a plan for all of us. _.: Published: at“‘The Crossroads of the Kootenays” CASTLEGAR, BRITISH ‘COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1980 _ Pollution poses future threat to Arrow “AN ears: ar VOL. 88, NO, A19 : 7 Sections (A&B) eh The level of waste discharged into the Arrow Lakes system is not high enough to pose a hazard to the Castlegar residents for whom it serves as a domestic water supply. But as dependence and activity on the lakes increase. it could reach a dangerous level in the near future. According to’ Ald. Heather Hallett, that sums up the renewed argument of city council, after receiving a‘ variety of reports: on effluent discharged into the lakes system, for protection of the watershed under the Health Act. . Hallett — who as health and welfare committee chairman received council support, “People don’t Ifke too much chlorine in their water and mos} community watersheds, like the Capilano watershed in Vancouver, are protected,” she explained. : ' “This.is the kind of thing we want. Not to restrict public access but to restrict what you could put in the Jake and.to provide proper dumping stations for boats and other sanitary facilities around the lake so the lake doesn't get polluted. And to make sure -‘ there’s nothing like septic tanks or open: sewers draining into the lake.” Inleuded among the material earmarked by Hallett’s committee for the report is a March 7 letter from CanCel president Don Watson reporting the 24 tug boats used by. the company ,on the lake’ discharge a maximum of about 250 gallons of bilge water, - . per day into the entire Arrow Lakes syste: for her motion to forward the information’to . the West Kootenay health unit’s chief public health inspector to be compiled in a report for 1 5 th rae ts ion to the p a — said the city's main concern is safeguarding what in 80 years may serve as the water-supply for. * Uye;whole: lowér ‘Columbia Valleyo7 “ore: “There is no present danger, but there may be or there will be, I think, five or 10 years down the road,” she said. . “We might as well get started now because we know how long it takes Victoria. to act on anything.” 24. “It may take us five years to get that lake designated,” Hallett continued. “I don't know how long it took for them to get the Okanagan Lake designated under the Health. Act, but it didn't happen overnight.” The health and welfare chairman agreed chlorination elimitiates the hazard of such effluent to the city users, but “the higher the « coliform count the more chlorination -you ‘have to do.” i < Hallett named as a particular: trouble spot for which recreational ‘users, are responsible a section of beach, above: the Keenleyside Dam on the Columbia Rive: which public health inspector Mike -Harna- dek’s 1979 water quality survey reported the presence! of an average,:of 147.28 fecal coliforms per 100 .millimetres of: sampled water. Seen ~\Although’ she estimated recreational users of the lake contribute about 50 per cent | of the effluent in the Jake, “it's really hard to say unless you go out and count boats and monitor them pretty clogely.”. © Alter continued requests to the province , for sanitation facilities for boaters on the © lake, the city may see “something at ‘Syringa Creek-Park this summer,” shi ) be determined, Hall impact of: B\C. Hydro's ‘propoged : resettle ment subdivision at Deer Park: for’ former lakeside property owners. displaced‘ by the Hugh Keenleyside Dam construction in the , 1960s, she said. : -“If those Hydro lots are. developed around the lake and people start cultivating the land you'll have a fertilizer -leeching problem like they do in the Okanagan,” Hallett said. : z ¢ _\ “There's a lot of phosphates and nitrates that drain into the Okanagan Lake system, and that’s why they're got that weed blooming so nicely. You add more of one- ingredient than the system is used to and you change the whole system.” | Free delivery during May | The Sunday Castlegar News will be delivered free during the month of May to all homes in those Castlegar area communities:where the newspaper presently has carrier routes. Only a limited number of Sunday editions will be avail- able on newsstands in May, and the regular newsstand price will apply. : Yearly customers who are mail subscribers in Castlegar, Robson and Blue- berry will get their Sunday edition by carrier during May. Only the mid-week edition of the Castlegar News will be mailed to those par- ticular mail subscribers dur- ing the month. All other mail subscribers, of course, will have both editions mailed to them. nesday to participate in th HUNDREDS of Castlegar district students lined up at city hall Wed- C. School Sports Milk Run.,Elemen: tary as well as secondary schoo! students took: patt In the run, which ralees money for crippled children. + +-News/Mirror Foto by Lois Hughes , eberry.« residents’ fra ir. system °:shyt: down almost. co pletely this week: in the =.aftermath “of Monday's heavy rain- storm in the region. Although seasonal run- off. from the: Castlegar. - Christina - Lake highway's clay banks has caused high particle levels in the water- shed since construction of the highway 20 years ago Mon- day's downpour resulted in gravel deposits cutting off the supply at its intake, Bill ‘boiling * Cook, Blue , ‘Tr. tigation District chairman, ‘reported this week. ety .:In the meantime, Cook said, the water. district is pumping water directly from the creek through a two-inch line about'.150 feet down- stream:from the existing in- take, Ses Asa result the turbidity of Blueberry residents’ do- mestic water —; requiring before . consumption ‘ hibited for Zori cited in’ complaints from users “because the creek it: self is nothing but poor mud,” “the water district chairman said. “It’s somet! Ryou have to ‘see .to believe,” Cook added. © : ‘ The source of the. cutoff has been ‘traced .to gravel and the six- Don’t change your address. _ before June 1 deadline Don't be too hasty in mailing those change- of- address cards, warns city council's planning chairman. : Welcome to Super Sunday Good morning, Castlegar. Welcome to thg Sunday Castlegar News. ~.. Yes, starting to- day — Super Sunday, . May 4 — your Castle- gar News _ starts twice-a-week publi- cation after 32 years of community service as a weekly. news- paper. i : The decision to undertake twice- weekly publication was a major one, but one. we believe reflects the growth of ’ Castlegar and its de- veloping importance as a major commer- cial, educational and . » industrial centre. _ As. announced earlier, the decision to distribute the conieuar News’ second edition edition of the _Pretty good Sunder Product, please throughout North America. It is a day when people have. more leisure time, and it provides us with the opportunity to present in- teresting: articles (such as_ historical reminiscences) that hurried readers might not have: time to read if we published them on some other day of the week. We're open to all kinds of suggestions. While we think we're going to.be giving you a believe your will be w . In fact, phone them direct to me at 365-7266 or write me at Box 3007, Castlegar. . We know you'll enjoy this first Sunda edition, and we look forward to sharing all your Sundays with you from now on. . . Sincerely, : ' + Eagan 2 Burt Campbell, on a Sunday is in line-with Ald. Albert Calderbank said this week Castlegar's street renumbering program is nearing its final stages, but residents affected should not “jump the gun” on the official June 1 changeover date. . New house numbers should not be put up and address change notices should not be sent out until -that date, he said, “If anybody notified someone of their new address and the letter arrived prior to June 1 the chances of it being delivered would be.a bit slim;” Calderbank said. “It could go astray.” - Mail old add- resses “will be honored for a year after June 1,” pointed out. “You've got a year to change it anyway and it would be advisable to change it June 1,” he said. “If you are having stuff printed, print it he thigh screening’ tank f the water dystem, he said, ” although; the full extent of .8 pocket-size, list of all the SUPPLEMENTS The Shoppers Drug Mart . “Money Saver” fewa: {Not all supplements are included in all papers) Ann Landers ......... Page AS Classified Ads . Crosaword ... For Better or W and hold it until then.” Last months’ distri- bution of letters, jointly pre- pared by the city and Canada Post, informing households of ’ ; a their new addresses “was the [°™ “Gel Sap 8 =) as s last big job” in the change- | taxen ONE YEAR ago, over, ‘the planning