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Seymour slide creates new lake Twin Bridges under water, hikers warned to stay away
BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
North Shore residents and visitors need to start getting used to the idea of a lake where much of the Seymour River used to be.
Following Sunday morning’s rock slide near Twin Bridges, it took just six hours to form a new lake that extends 850 metres north from the slide site and six metres down at its deepest point.
“The (geotechnical engineers) are really saying it is what is now.The rocks are not moving.They’re just settling down a little bit but that feature will be there,” said Mike Mayers, Metro Vancouver’s superintendent of environmental management. “It’s the largest rock fall I’ve heard of on the North Shore in a long time.” The impact is a
permanent change to the geography of the North Shore.The new lake where canyons and rapids used to be has claimed at least two hectares of nearby forest, low-lying sections of the Fisherman’s Trail and, as of Wednesday night, the Twin Bridge was submerged. “We’ve got flooded forests.Those trees are going to die.They’re going
feature. It’s a lake, not a river and you usually put a bridge over a river,” he said. As a precaution during the heavy rains this week, Metro closed all of the trailheads that lead to the Seymour.The fences and guards should be gone by Friday but Metro is going to be stepping up efforts to
to be falling over.We have flooded trails.The water is coming up and down and up and down.We’re probably going to lose a few of those. They’re going to completely wash away,” he said. Metro crews are now trying to figure out how the bridge can be removed and possibly salvaged. “We have no other option. It’s a permanent
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PST hike proposed in transit question JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Lower Mainland residents, including those on the North Shore, will be asked whether they support a 0.5 per cent increase in the Provincial SalesTax within the region to support $7.5 billion in transit improvements over the next 10 years. The mayors’ council on transportation voted Thursday to put that question in a mail-in referendum ballot seeking voters’ approval for a new source of transportation funding. The mayors opted to ask for a regional increase to the existing seven per cent sales tax over other revenue sources including vehicle levies and carbon taxes, saying it would provide the fairest, most affordable and steady source of cash for TransLink expansion. See Smith page 3
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