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City lifts watering restrictions
MASSIVE $2.1 MILLION WALL UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT CAMPBELL RIVER DUMP
Water restrictions put into place earlier this week have been lifted. “The restrictions were put in place because extremely high peak water demand was occurring twice a day during this week’s hot weather. The amount of water being drawn from the community system reached a high of 940 litres per second. The safe limit for community use is 700 litres per second, to still leave enough water supply for fire protection,” Fire Chief Ian Baikie said in a press release. “We extend a huge thank-you to everyone in the community for their efforts to reduce demand during peaks times, especially evenings,” says Jennifer Peters, the city’s utilities manager. “We appreciate that it’s inconvenient to cut back on water use, especially when it’s so Continued on Pg. 3
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A crew from Jacob Brothers Construction works atop a retaining wall being built along Argonaut Road to expand the dump. The wall will allow the dump to accept waste for three more years while a new dump in Cumberland is being built.
Regional waste management project to extend life of landfill Kristen Douglas Campbell RiveR miRRoR
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n imposing wall under construction at the Campbell River landfill will extend the life of the dump, according to the Comox Strath-
cona Waste Management Service. The wall extends the dump outward towards Argonaut Road in order to keep it going for three more years, until a new dump in Cumberland is built. Tom Boatman, the manager of the solid waste service which
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“This wall is buying us the time,” Boatman said. “We need this to ensure that when we run out of space in Cumberland, we have landfill space here. This wall is very important so we can continue to provide the space we need to
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