Wednesday, July 12,2000

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tudy Reimche

Peninsula News ews Review ‘

Petitions containing
more than 7,000 signatures
were presented to the
provincial government by
MLAs. Murray Coell and ._-
Rick Kasper on Wednesday,.
July 5. Kasper tabled the pe-
tition, which asks the Leg-
..jslative Assembly to hear
. the request of petitions that
+ the Brentwood/Mill Bay
‘ ferry service not be permit-
ted to be cancelled. It was
> signed by 2,447 signatures,

bringing the total to 4,894
with those being presented
by Coell.

Representatives from
Brentwood Bay. and the
‘Cowichan. Valley, number-
ing about 20, were in
gallery when the informa-
tion was tabled.

The petitions will also go
to BC Ferries, which is ex-
‘pected to release a report.
on the. future of the. ferry
this fall. - :

-ing with the board of direc:
tors for BC. Ferries,”. ‘said

reques
pected to happen in August. :

“make a presentation’ re-.
garding - ‘the: manner in

“current process as well as.
the process itself.

tive throughout the summer.

process,” said Alcorn, “We.
collected almost 5,000 sig-
natures in just two weeks,
-and I still have people phon-
i ine offering themselves as
- volunteers.” .
“Anyone interested i in be-
ing involved can call Alcorn
at 652-3593 or (250)743-

© “Our” Save. Our ‘Ferry es
group has requested ameet-

e rounding their water, supply.

‘Alcorn said they want to -
"which Ferries arrived at the .
The group will remain ac-

“This has been-a real
community-building -

6517 in the Cowichan Valley.

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“Senanus residents are taking their grievances :

= straight to the top.

~Following..a decision in June by: Central ni
Saanich: council to take no action on the long-.
" standing issue of water quality and quantity on .
-. Senanus: Drive, those effected have. decided to -
write to Prime. Minister Jean. Chretien toinform
Pamela Alcorn, one of the — ‘his office of their health and safety concerns sur-"
organizers - of ‘the SOF .:
group. “We. have’ recently. :
gotten a tentative ‘yes’ to our
The meeting is ex. petition for an extension of the municipal water.
‘Tine. through ML: Newton, that would see 50 per.
ie cent covered through. a . provincial infrastructur
“grant, and 50.per cent covered by the residents. «

; Sixty-seven per cent of the residents signed the
petition. -

‘and. members of ‘Central Saanich
West Voters Association presented. council with a

But instead of getting the nod from council |

* residents were turned down for the time being.
“Residents are very angry at the treatment -

they received, because basically council said
thank you very much, we are not going to deal
with it,” said Frank Towler, president of Central

_ Saanich West Voters Association.

Since 1995, possible paths for an extension to
the water line have been explored. They include:
through North Saanich, south through Brent-
wood and Mount Newton. Studies to determine

water safety have also been done by. various
groups including the Capital Health Region, mu- -

nicipal engineers ¢ and an independent hydrolo-
gist.

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However, there has been differing opinions on

the problem, and how best to deal with it.

“We are going to be putting everybody on no- .
tice that we hold them legally responsible, from

the Mayor to the CHR, CRD, municipal and

provincial government,” said Towler.
“The residents are stuck if council won't do

~ anything. We can’t go to higher levels of govern-

ment for grants and things, we have to go
through the municipal government.”

‘According to Towler, the residents’ water is =
: supplied through an aquifer, which i is referred to.

asa. ‘cracked rock aquifer.” ©
Seti is fast-acting, ‘ “which means iti is poor qual
“ity; it means surface. cwater ‘reaches the aquifer: ’

gravel beds: it is not purified: very. well — — ‘so it
-ahigh-risk aquifer,” che said.

ght through spring, ‘the aquifer is fully charged

tends to be’a reasonable amount of it: But in
‘April.and May (it depends when the: rain ‘stops) .-

“the aquifer drops very ‘quickly, and it is about the ~~
summer. when the ‘quality of the water very.

quickly goes down hill.”
Towler noted that, in the area where Sénainuas,
residents draw their water supplies from, there »

are also unused or discarded wells, alongside #

~ agricultural activities. ©

“Furthermore, the residents have individual .
_wells, so there is no way you will even find a {wa-

ter safety] problem until it is too late,” he said.
But instead of extending the waterline Central

- Saanich's Water Advisory Task force is hoping |

for other, more innovative solutions to the prob-
lem.

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to be inderstood:
- “The nature of the problem i isa lot of miscella-

‘neous data from various people down Senanus.

Drive saying, ‘hey we have contaminated water,
it is unsafe to drink’,” he said. .
According to M’Gonigle, an independent hy-
- drologist performed analysis | on some of. the wa-
ter serving the area.

“Tt turned out that a lot of the quality problems .
- that have been reported are ones that result from,
taking samples at the taps. The hydrologist took

down into the wells. He. concluded that there is
no quality problem here.’ All quality problems i are

the resuits of people failing to maintain fer Sys. eee eG

“The waterline goes. in, at rid then he: Set

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cerned about what treated water.

~ “Ts it really the type of.water you want forz agri-

- samples from the aquifer itself, he went right.

Instead he suggests several alternatives: Com- a

-“munity- -based systems where people have good
water flows, small individual cisterns and acom-

~ munity pump, or tapping into the Unified Treat-
ment Plant and purifying the water coming out of.
that, and using it as a recycled water system for:

- farmers rather than fresh water.

- “We need to look at innovative alternatives that -
would meet the needs of people on Senanus, and
would not putin place an infrastructure that leads
- {o urban sprawl, would not be expensive, and
‘would target the type of water. for, the appr opniate
needs,” he said.

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