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Thursday, November 15, 2012 VOL. 30 Number 45
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Robert Walker, President of Royal Canadian Legion Branch #155 assists Marge Henschel after the laying of the Silver Cross Mothers’ wreath at the Remembrance Day ceremony in Greenwood.
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Work to relieve the pressure on Providence Dam is scheduled to end on Nov. 15 according to Fisheries Biologist Tara White from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. The job was originally expected to be completed by Nov. 4, but White told The Times they had
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to shut down the operation for a week in order to bring in a smaller pump. “We dropped it down to a 50 HP pump from an 80 HP pump because both the velocity and the volume of water was too great,” said White. She said the pump now being used is capable of moving 2,000 gallons per minute, which is
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equal to 127 litres per second, but that the creek being used for a spillway is only getting about 90 litres per second. She said the only issues they have faced so far were related to the size of the pump. But the smaller unit was brought in and pumping re-
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