ve

demanded by Birch

Hill residents —

Terrace residents living in the
Birch Hill area have made

another appeal for safer access.

to their homes, but it appears
they may be turned. down a se-
cond time.

In a letter to city council,
Birch Hill residents asked for
‘immediate action’ and remind-
ed council that a petition they
filed” last spring was turned
down because the engineering
department, determined that
Birch Hill is too unstable and
steep to be upgraded.

But, they. said, the city is
presently filling a pulley between
Walsh Ave. and Johnstone Ave.

to complete the water line in the”
area, and they argued that this.

will provide a simple solution
for a second route. -
“With very little additional

expense, a road could be con-.

structed over these culverts to

link up the two benches,’’ the:

residents wrote.

They described Birch Hill as a
dusty washboard road in the
summer. which gradually
_ deteriorates in the winter arid
becomes extremely hazardous.

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Bindar said the Waste Man- |

agement Branch has been ap-
proached on licencing the om-

mission of offensive odors, but «

that issue-is still under con-
sideration.
He said.
' evaluate an offensive odor but
said a test using volunteers to
compare a standard chemical
with the odor is being examined.

it’s. difficult ‘to

They said using Johnstone
Ave. as an access route during
the winter months would pro-
vide a safer route for Birch Hill
residents.

They explained © ‘that . they
realize this. will only provide
temporary access and hoped that
the alternate solution, a new ac-

cess road. linking Hanson Ave.

and Pedrini Ave:, ‘‘will be built
soon. to permanently satisfy the
needs. of both benches.’’
However, City Administrator
Bob Hallsor has said that he

didn’t believe it would be possi- #
ble to link the two benches with .

a new road. this year. -

He explained there is still a §
deep gulley that would have to’
The Terrace RCMP crime prevention officer, Constable Ewan Harvia, 5
~ CounterAttack display telling people how to

be filled in, and the expense
would be prohibitive at this
time.

Hallsor did say however, that
a new access road will be built

-eventually, and the water line is -
the first stage ina five-year plan.

“It’s part of a long-range city
plan,”’ he said, ‘‘but it’s not in
the budget at the present time.’’

“The ultimate plan would-be.
to link up both benches with our
right-of. way ‘to. Hanson Ave..
but tha:’s something that’s even.
farther in the future,’’ he said.

» Councii has sent their. request
to the Public Works Cammittee
for further study while . the
residents, who live on the bench
above the arena, have said they
have tolerated -the steadily

eroding gravel road:as.their only
-access to the bench long enough,

and: it is time the city built an

alternate route.

Chevron

pent several days recently with a traveling .

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