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Vol. 89 Issue 11 • Wednesday, March 14, 2012 • www.arrowlakesnews.com • 250-265-3823 • $1.25 Includes HST
New sewage treatment plant coming along By Claire Paradis Arrow Lakes News
The new sewage treatment plant is on its way. On the fine spring-like day of Thursday, March 8, concrete was poured for the foundation of the new treatment building. Down past the three sewage lagoons, the construction site is tucked away out of sight. Fortunately, the project was scheduled for a day that saw the men pour 24 cubic metres of concrete in the sunshine. Simon Bamber, a construction worker on the project, demonstrated how to test the “slump” of the mix, and showed off the three samples that will be tested for the concrete’s solidity. One of the samples will be crushed under pressure in a week, and another in four weeks, to ensure the foundation is strong enough to support the new water treatment plant. The new facility will employ state-ofthe-art UV and dissolved air flotation (DAF) treatments of the water, in addition to sand filtration. “The sand filtration will come later if required to polish the water up a bit more,” Engineer Trevor Shephard told the Arrow Lakes News, “The water will get UV treated if going to the lake, since it’s illegal to dump chlorinated water into a lake.” The new design has been created to handle
problems a previous one wasn’t equipped to deal with. “This system is designed to handle algae,” Shephard said, “The sand filter unit that we first planned did not handle algae so we had to change our plans.” Now that the foundation has been poured, the next step is the construction of the building for the new water treatment equipment. Saving money and going green have been major drivers of the project. “We are building a 45 foot (14 metres) by 30 foot (9 metres) building to house the new equipment,” he detailed, “The Village is being green and recycling materials by using a refurbished DAF from the U.S.A. and reusing a 5,000 litre plastic tank that was used during the arena construction. The gravel, fill, and concrete are all local, with much labour used locally.” More pieces of the project are on the way, including the pump that will get the treated water moving back into town and into the lake. “We have a pump system ordered, and 1,800 metres of pipe installed back into town to pump the water for irrigating fields and green spaces,” said Shephard, “The irrigation water must also be chlorinated as per the Municipal Sewage Regulation (MSR) regu-
David Palmer and Dave McDonald supervise the concrete pour of the foundation for the new sewage water treatment building. CLAIRE PARADIS/ARROW LAKES NEWS lations. When our irrigation storage pond is he likes it. full, the same clean water will flow to the “Yep, wastewater treatment is interesting, lake, with no chlorine added.” from a biological and mechanical perspective. Shephard spends a lot of time mulling If you like that sort of thing,” he commented, over the intricacies of waste water and how to “[It’s] not so great for social parties, unless make a municipal system run, but fortunately, other engineers are present!”
Librarian honoured with CBAL literacy award
Evelyn Goodell, centre, was awarded the 2011 CBAL Literacy Award by CBAL’s Rhonda Palmer (left) and Liz Gillis. CLAIRE PARADIS/ARROW LAKES NEWS
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Evelyn Goodell received the CBAL Literacy Award this year, in recognition of all the work she has done in the area promoting literacy. The award criteria state that “nominees should be a strong advocate or champion for literacy, and an inspiration to others,” something that CBAL Family Literacy Coordinator Rhonda Palmer said Evelyn has always been seen as being. When the time came to put forward nominees, Goodell, who recently retired as the Nakusp Library’s head librarian, was mentioned right away. It didn’t take much prompting for the Community Literacy Advisory Committee to see she was the person to celebrate this year. “Evelyn not only spent many years as the Public Librarian in Nakusp she also did a lot of work for the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL),” Palmer told The Arrow Lakes News. Goodell was also the Family Literacy Coordinator for CBAL in New Denver for
three years, and coordinated a Parent/Child Mother Goose program that took place in the Lucerne school library. “During this time, Evelyn brought OneTo-One Reading to Lucerne School,” Palmer said. Goodell trained with Deb Schiller, who developed the program, in Vernon and had 100 volunteers (including High School students) the first year the program started at the school. During her time as coordinator, she also provided a Homework Club in the school. The scope of Goodell’s work went beyond just book literacy. She also travelled to Cranbrook with Rhonda Palmer to do the week-long training for Mary Gordon’s Roots of Empathy program, and began offering the program that saw a baby visit a classroom each month at LESS for the next two years. In addition to programming in the community and school, Goodell set up a read-
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