Editor:
Your last issue (No. 41) had no fewer than seven letters plus a front-page story regarding the implementation of Stage 4 water restrictions that are a continuous Damocles sword hanging over the SCRD. What will it take for our lamentably inefficient mayor and council to deal with this issue as the most significant and urgent matter to attend to and resolve? We are being managed by a one-pony circus prancing in continuous circles.
Winnipeg has had a gravity flow aqueduct from Shoal Lake (at the Ontario border) that runs for 135 km that was completed in 1919. With an upgrade in the ’60s it has been able to provide 225 million litres of water annually to a prairie city.
On the flip side we live in a rainforest region and are unable to satisfy the water requirements of a relatively small population area. Is there something wrong with this picture?
Forget the meaningless strategic plan and deal with the most signficant issue – that of delivering a dependable, required water source. Keep Chapman Lake as a backup to justify the dollars already invested (see Al Jenkins’ letter to editor). In this time of very low interest rates and a federal government throwing our tax money away on foreign issues, we should be able to get our MP to lobby for something worthwhile – water accessibility for Sechelt.
Bud Hoffman, West Sechelt
