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Hope Pioneer Cemetery was a stop for the national Community in Bloom judges on Friday
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GAS STATION TO BE DEMOLISHED Shell Canada moves forward with site decommissioning
2 POLICE SHUT DOWN GROW OPERATION Over 1,100 marijuana plants seized from Silver Creek property
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STEPPING BACK INTO HISTORY
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The old Alexandra Bridge was a key transportation route
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Clint Chartier catches some air on the 4x4 course Saturday at the Hope Sportsbowl. For more on the eighth annual Summer Smash, see pages 4-5.
New water system in Boston Bar Boil advisory is finally over after more than two decades Kerrie-Ann Schoenit Hope Standard
For the first time in over 20 years, Boston Bar residents have access to clean, safe drinking water. A new integrated water system and treatment facility officially opened last Thursday, ending a long-standing boil advisory in the community.
“It’s a wonderful system,” said area director Lloyd Forman. “We have been a depressed area since the mill closure and this is probably the first bright spot we’ve had in the last five, six years. We’re sort of hoping this is a stepping stone towards better things.” The Boston Bar treatment facility was designed similar to the one in North Bend and integrates seven separate drinking water sys-
tems into one. Water travels through a pressure sand filter to remove large particles before passing through a series of cartridge filters, which are changed about every three days. It is then disinfected by UV reactors and low levels of chlorine prior to entering the 465 cubic metre reservoir. The entire system flows by gravity from the intake at
One and One Quarter Mile Creek, through the plant, into the reservoir, and then to the distribution system through a pressure reducing valve. There is also an extensive computer control system in place to allow the FVRD to check the status and make adjustments remotely at anytime from anywhere in the region via computer or smartContinued on 3
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