THE CORPORATION GF THE CITY OF FORT COQUITLAM C 0 J \ C

MEMORANDUM JUL 19 i978

TO: Mayor and Council . July 6th, 1978

FROM: F.E. Peters, P. Eng.,
City Engineer

Re: .Park Development in Nu-West Subdivision

An item has come up which should be considered by
the Leisure Activities Committee. However, because time is
of the essence and the Lesure Activities Committee is not
meeting prior to Council meeting, I have taken the liberty .
of addressing this directly to Council and requesting that
Council deal with it at this time.

As you know, Nu~West Developments is developing a
park within their subdivision on Cedar Drive. We have been
approached by Nu-West who have offered to install an under-
‘ground sprinkler system throughout the park in order to improve
the appearance of the park and to enhance the value of ‘the
subdivision, The proposed underground sprinkler system is to
be one which is operated manually and Nu-West would propose
to have a man available who would operate the sprinkler system
during the initial grcewth period of the park.

Although such a sprinkler system would be better
than no sprinkler system at all, it is still. not as good as
a fully automatic system would be. We have obtained an estimate
from the Rainbird Company who were to do Nu-West's work and
have found that the additional cost to provide a fully auto-
matic system with sprinkler heads that pop out of the ground
as controlled by a time clock would be only about $3,500. Such
a system would save having a crew available to turn on the
various sprinklers from time to time during daylight hours and
would allow the sorinkler to be used at night during periods
when the park is not in use.

The soccer field is presently under construction in
the park and will be ready for the sprinkler system within one
week. If we are to provide for automatic operation of this
sytem, it must be done at the same time and the decision must
be made immediately. I therefore recommend that $3,500 be
allocated from the parks acquisition fund in order to provide
for fully automatic sprinklers in this park.

We attempted to talk Nu-West into providing the add-
itional funds for an automatic sprinkler system. However, they
feel they are alrcady doing more than required and that the
automatic system would not assist them in maintaining the park
because they would have a man available anyway. They have

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