District of Barriere CAO Colleen Hannigan provided the following report to Mayor and Council at the Apr. 3, 2017, regular council meeting:
BC Groundwater Well Update:
The following update has been provided by Thierry Carriou from BC Groundwater.
1. The pipeline has been inspected and is considered 95 % complete. Central Interior Pumps (CIP) is ready to construct the final outfall segment to the river. All regulatory approvals are in place to proceed with that last step. Our contract R.P. Bio. was also contacted and I conirmed that we are prepared to discharge to the river shortly. He has notified FLNRO that work is about to re-start. We will ask him to visit the site and assist with layout of sampling locations upon startup.
The short-term license details were con?rmed with FLNRO. As mentioned previously, there are only a few requirements in the license, one of which is ?ow metering.
JR Drillingis prepared to re-mobilize. We have selected April 10 as the target mobilization date. The order of work will be as follows.
a. Complete PW1 0 10” production screen development to A 100 conditions as per the RFP. A combination of air and water development will be used.
b. JR will break to re-supply/ re-tool and perform off-site equipment maintenance.
c. CIP will install the temporary supply pump into PW1 and conduct a brief test to estimate the yield of PW1.
d. JR will drill the PW2 0 6” pilot well (EB201 7-1) to 280 feet using a combination of air-rotary and flood-forward methods.
e. JR will break to re-supply/ re-tool and perform off-site equipment maintenance.
f. BCGW will await laboratory grain-size analysis and design PW2 production screen. The District will select a screen design as per the same process as PW1.
g. JR will drill the first string of PW2 (Z 12” casing using flood-forward drilling (ideally to about 200 ft).
h. JR will drill the second string of PW2 G 10” production casing using flood-forward drilling (ideally to 280 ft).
i. JR will break to re-supply/re-tool and perform off-site equipment maintenance.
j. JR will install PW2 Q 10”production screen and develop to A100 conditions as per the RFP. A combination of air and water development will be used.
4. The BC Groundwater geologist, will continue to oversee day-to-day contractor operations for Items (a) through (e). He is familiar with the site and will continue to monitor water levels in the standpipes when the settlement ponds are in active use and the river when the outfall is in use. For Items (0 through (1)BC Groundwater will oversee drilling with Mr. Carriou covering cross-overs. He will be on-site when drilling through the production zones of 200 to 280 feet in both the pilot and production wells. Daily reports will continue to be filled out and distributed at regular intervals.
TNRD Fire Services Agreement:
When the District of Barriere incorporated, the Letters Patent outlined how Fire Services would continue for both the TNRD and the newly formed municipality. Until now an annual proposed budget has been forwarded to TNRD by mid—year to be included in their budget discussions for the following year and then the difference between actual and budgeted reconciled at the end of that operating year. TNRD has requested a formalized agreement for Fire Services within the Barriere Fire Protection Area which has set payments to allow a more consistent budgeting approach without the need for reconciling except in exceptional circumstances which can be negotiated separate from this agreement. Based on the actuals from 2008 to 2016, payments would represent the TNRD‘s contribution of approximately 33%, which is the amount representing the regional district’s share of operational cost of the service.
Future years are based on an anticipated inflation rate of 2% per annum, using 2018 as the base year.
Should proportionate assessment values as reported by BC Assessment change significantly during the above years then either party may ask to have the scheduled payments adjusted to more accurately reflect the TNRD‘s share of operational costs.
TNRD will continue to make contributions to their capital reserve in order to address any future infrastructure costs that may arise.
Operating payment rates are: Year 2018 - $42,000; Year 2019 - $42,840; Year 2020 - $43,700; Year 2021 - $44,575; and Year 2022 - $45,470.
Solar Aquatics Water Reclamation Centre (SAWRC) Update:
Harley Wright has secured a free source of used steel irrigation pipe from Gilbert Smith Forest Products for Councillor Fennell to install for the hanging basket project in the greenhouse. Also, a supply of used herring netting from Chinook Cove has been sourced by the SAWRC team for use with the floating plant islands in the solar tanks. Team members are planning a road trip to Salmon Arm to collect pond plants from the City’s pond. Once they are procured we will know how many others willneed to be purchased.
A boiler inspection was carried out by our insurance underwriter this past week and there were no concerns identified. After much wasted staff time trying to get frozen and then wet chips to burn this winterlspring, discussions are under way to come up with a cost effective solution for the provision and storage of dry chips for the fall. A plan will be brought back to Council in the next month or so for approval.
Mr. Borrill has made a couple of pipe adjustments and super chlorinated the line between the last tank and the microscreen filter which should help decrease the turbidity and resultant fecal counts. He continues to work away at the remaining deficiencies as time permits.
