Editor:
Earlier this fall I communicated with both Mayor Milne and SCRD director Mark Lebbell regarding our community growth and the fact that our water resources cannot keep up to our development. Both responded with the same plan and direction – the parts being source development and conservation.
To me, conservation means repairing our leaky infrastructure. This is supposed to recover up to 30 per cent of our water supply. As this will not happen all at once, it cannot possibly give us enough relief to make an immediate impact.
Bottom line, we need the source development part to move forward at a much more urgent pace. In my opinion, digging a few test wells into an existing water supply aquifer is not the answer.
The page 4 article in Coast Reporter on Oct. 27 had comments from Sechelt councillors on how long this issue has been talked about. The longest time frame referenced was by Coun. Alice Lutes: “Like others at the table, I’ve heard this talk for – it’s eight years for me, into the ninth year.”
My wife talked to a gentleman who was on council before we came to the Coast who said this issue was on the table when he was a councillor. We have lived in Sechelt for 14 years
It’s time the discussions stop and the planned implementation starts.
As a side note, an article in Coast Reporter on Oct. 13 was about a private resident starting construction of a “mega dock” at Middlepoint. Submissions were sent to the Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations in 2015, construction has already started. Isn’t this the same provincial ministry the SCRD is dealing with?
Why is it taking the SCRD so long to accomplish anything?
Fred McIntosh, Sechelt
