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Pigging local water mains
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“This last part of the project is going to be basically to scour the pipe...”
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Cabin leaders and campers from Rough Acres Bible Camp enjoy a game together in the grass outside. Rough Acres draws campers from Houston and Smithers to Prince Rupert and Kitimat. Their leaders this year came from Houston, Smithers, and Terrace, and as far as Manitoba, Saskatchewan and England.
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Town council carried a motion to clean Houston’s water pipes of iron and manganese deposits in preparation for a new water treatment plant. Houston currently does not have the ability to filter out these metals from its water supply and hence it builds up in the pipes. Council agreed to commission the sole bidder for the contract, SFE Global, to scour 20,400 metres of water mains for $156,000 as part of a preemptive plan to ensure clean water supply. “This last part of the project is going to be basically to scour the pipe, as over the years a lot of the manganese and iron have built up on the pipes and now what’s going to happen is the pieces will just flake off and create again dirty water,” chief administrative officer Michael
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Glavin said to council. “As such, we’re trying to get ahead of that.” Pipes in Houston are made of ductile iron, asbestos concrete and PVC, to which Glavin mentioned that the interior lining of old ductile iron and asbestos concrete pipes can become porous which makes it difficult to scour perfectly. “We are going to make sure the public
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Streamkeepers press on with Houston coho hatchery By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
Upper Bulkley River Streamkeepers are moving ahead with a small coho hatchery in Houston. They plan to build a temporary structure beside the Chamber of Commerce in Steelhead Park this
fall. There they will incubate 10,000 coho salmon eggs over the winter. If it is successful and gets enough support, Streamkeepers plan to build a permanent structure in spring 2016. The District of Houston approved the permit at a meeting
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last Tuesday. Streamkeepers founder Cindy Verbeek says volunteers will build the hatchery and their goal is to finish by mid-September when the salmon come. The hatchery will be heated and have a shock absorbing platform to protect the eggs from
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