ay cag ces eesti tee A PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: MINISTRY OF ~ ENVIRONMENT ot WASTE MANAGEMENT BRANCH APPLICATION FOR A PERMIT UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT THIS APPLICATION is to be filed with the Regional Waste Manager at Smithers, Bag 5000, Smithers, British Columbia, VOJ 2NO “any person who may be adversely affected by the discharge or stor- age of the waste may within 30 days from the last date of pasting under section 3(a) or publication, service or display under section 4, write to the manager stating how he is affected." PREAMBLE — The purpose of this application is storage of PCB and PCP waste. 1. VWe Eurocan Pulp & Paper Co., - a joint venture of West Fraser Mills Ltd. & Enso Forest Products Ltd., Skeena Sawmills Division hereby apply for a permit to store special waste from PCP Waste, PCP . contaminated gloves, P.C.B. filled capacitors located at Skeena Saw- mills and give notice of application to all persons affected. 2, The special waste storage site will be located at Lot A, Plan 3986 D.L. 616 which is at Terrace, B.C. 3, The composition and quantity of special waste(s) to be stored is: Substance(s) (as specified in the Special Waste Regulations): P.C.B.; Maximum quantity of spe- clal waste to be stored (kg): apr 70 liters Substance(s) (as specified In the Special Waste Regulations): P.C.P.; Maximum concentration of substance in special waste (g kg): 24%; Maximum quanilty of special waste to be stored (kg): 1000 galions 4..The period during which the waste will be stored will be indefi- nite — until proper disposal facility in Province. 5. The method(s) to be used to store the special waste will be 500 gallon metal tank with drip tray with lid and pad locked. Stored in cover- ed building with open front in isolat- ed area of yard. PCB's are contain- ed in individual containers. 6. Dated this 15 day of November, 1991. Don Chesley Telephone No. 635-6336 A copy of this application was posted at the site in accordance with the Waste Management Regu- lations on November 15, 1991. NOTICE INVITING APPLICA- TIONS FOR MAINTENANCE OF THORNHILL REFUSE SITE Sealed tenders addressed to the undersigned and marked “THORNHILL REFUSE SITE” will be received until 4:30 P.M., November 29, 1991. Specifications and contract may be obtained upon requast from: Regional District of Kitimat- Stkine #200 - 4545 Lazelle Avenue Terrace. B.C. V8G 4E1 Telephone: 635-7251 or 1-800- 663-3208 Fax: 635-9222 The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted, Administration Regional District of Kitimat- Stikine FOUND — At Northern Healthcare, 3207 Kalum, one pair of prescription glasses in a burgundy case. Drop in or phone 635-7274. by Tod Strachan TERRACE — City council ~ received for information Monday _ night the minutes of a Nov. 20 Planning and. Public Works: Committee meeting that alder- man Ruth Hallock described as the most difficult meeting she has had to chair in her 10 years on city council. The meeting was intended to find a solution to a conflict between city staff and Video Stop owner James Wold over intermittent flooding in the 4600 ‘block Lakelse Ave. The meeting ended, however, with no recom- ‘mendation from the committee and a demand from Wold that Public Works director of oper- ations Stew Christensen resign. The conflict came to a head on Nov. 15 when a record-breaking 97.2 millimetre rainfall caused flooding and land erosion prob- jems in a number of locations in the city. For Wold, though, it was the last straw. It was the third time he has had water in his store in past two years and the second time this fall. At 8 a.m., Friday, Nov. 15, says Wold, a fellow businessman advised Wold that rainwater had once again breached the curb and there was water in his store. He told-the Public Works Com- mittee that he grabbed a pair of - hip waders, raced to the scene, and pulled an "armful" of leaves from the top of a storm drain in front of his store. But within 10 seconds, said Wold, the drain was plugged again. Desperate times call for des- perate measures, and Wold, convinced that leaves plugging grates on storm sewer drains was the problem, began to remove the grates, First he lifted three, then headed "upstream" as far as Terrace Shell on Kalum St., removing the grates from every storm sewer he could find. But at. Olson and Eby, his venture to save the city came to an end. After a city worker fell up to his waist into one of the grateless drains, Public Works staff advised Wold that what he was doing was dangerous, illegal and even called in the RCMP. When he returned to his store, however, Wold told the commit- tee, the water in and in front of his store was gone. "Where did it go?" he asked the commitice. And those on either side of the argument may never agree on the answer to that question. Did Wold solve the flooding prob- lem? Or was it only a matter of luck in his timing? Wold maintains the storm sewer is fine. Remove the leaves from the grates and they work just fine. He thanks the city for installing overflow drains in the 4600 block Lakelsc, but says they didn’t do the job right. There are grates on the overflow drains as well, and they plug: with leaves too. Public Works staff on the other hand, although they admit an ongoing problem with leaves, maintain the leaves are not the primary problem. The basic problem, they say, is that the present storm sewer system isn’t capable of handling unusually high flows of water like that of Nov. 15.. City council is now looking for a disinterested party to arbitrate the debate between Christensen and Wold. In the meantime, the potential for flooding apparently remains. oo | The Terrace Review and a fe other local businesses took the flood of Nov. 15 personally as well. In the period between about 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. there was 11.5 inches of water in one office at the Terrace Review; only a 1/2 inch short of flooding the entire building and damaging some very expensive equipment. The Terrace Inn had water within inches of their main power supply and about an inch of water on the floor of the Dolly Varden Room. At about 7:30 a.m., it took a phone call to public works to have the 4500 block Greig barri- caded, One female driver was left to wade ashore after under estimating the depth of water on Terrace Review —- Wednesday, November 27, 1991 29 City seeks arbitrator to settle dispute says the slide took out one tele- phone pole which in -turn dragged two others down the embankment with it. In the pro- cess, a cable serving Kleanza, Lakelse Lake and Jackpine Flats ‘was crushed, causing a disrup- tion of service in those areas for several hours. . Pacific Northern Gas manager Wayne Epp says the slide left about 100 feet of three-inch gas line hanging in the air, which caused a “fair bit of anxiety". But there was never an interrup- tion to service. He explains that a gas line near the Dudley Little bridge handied the gas flow while the exposed section of damaged pipe was replaced and eventually reburied, What is the problem in Ter- race? Director of Operations John Colongard described the situation to the Terrace Review on the afternoon of Nov. 15. The storm didn’t come without warning and several members of the city’s drainage crew were working hard clearing drain intakes at 5 a.m. in an effort to the street and stalling her ve- ——n hicle’s engine as she attempted to idle through. As for other Jim motorists, some showed a little courtesy, but others in pickups, tow’ trucks, tractor-trailer rigs and even a city back hoe appar- ently found it a thrill to chal- lenge the new but misplaced lake at a high rate of speed. It wasn’t long before their individual wakes started sloshing under the main door, into the unflooded part of the building, and the job of moving what was moveable to higher elevations began. But the water level began to drop around 8:30 a.m. and by . - noon it was gone. . We phoned public works, and others, for the story and dis- covered that the flooding was an isolated problem. Provincial Emergency Program coordinator | Rod Salem suggested the storm had caused few problems in the area. Most water drainage sys- tems handled the rain water well. Lakelse Lake - resident Lloyd Johnstone offered a simi- lar report. There was lots of surface water, he said, but no serious flooding. The Ministry of Highways reported nothing more than a number of minor erosion prob- lems at random points, with the exception of an embankment at the south end of the old Skeena Bridge, where about 1,800 cubic meters of road shoulder slid into the Skeena River at about 3:30 p.m. According to area highways manager Earl Nygaard, motorists were restricted to single lane traffic until about 1 p.m. Sunday when the rather complex repair job was complete. The erosion at the south end of the bridge caused problems for B.C. Telephone and Pacific Northern Gas as well. B.C. Tel district field manager Don Kerr Ml between merchant and Public Works head keep ahead of things. By 6 a.m. the entire crew was on the job. At about 7 a.m., though, around 20 cubic. yards of gravel sloughed into the sewer intake beside the Park Ave. lift station, diverting thousands of gallons of water down Atwood and Clinton streets where it came to rest at the low point, the 4500 block Greig. so, At about 7:30 a.m. the Howe Creek intake between the Sunny Hill and Kalum St. trailer courts became plugged with debris and this created a similar problem — downstream in the 4600 block Lakelse. Both blockages were removed before 8 a.m., allowing rain water to flow into the storm sewer system. Colongard warns city residents that storm sewer grates never be removed, Grates are about 12 by 18 inches, and the drop into the storm sewer system is four fect or more. This is a large enough hole to swallow an unsuspecting child who might be wading through what he thinks is an innocuous puddle. Art Hill was one of about 25 Terrace volunteer firefighters who collected $5,922.90 on a recent weekend during their annual Muscular Dystrophy Boot Drive. The Terrace Volunteer Firefighters Association has also added $250 of their own funds to the collection bringing the total donation to Muscular Dystrophy up to $6,172.90, an increase of about 37 percent over jast year’s drive.