Did Inundation Study
Cost Nanaimo Taxpayers Millions?
City staff have made some choices regarding the issue of
the Colliery Dams. They were presented
with a study in April , 2010 which confirmed that the dams were vulnerable and
that it was reasonable to assume that people would die as a result of dam
failure due to a seismic event. This was the same conclusion of the review of
2008.
Staff had decided in 2009 that
they did not consider it a wise use of taxpayer funds to upgrade or replace the
dams. They chose to ask for a flood
inundation study as “they were unsure which people would die if the dams failed”
(as stated in our meeting of Dec. 06, 2012). Staff did not discuss this issue
with council and did not inform the community of the potential risks.
They did another study.
There is no mandate
from the provincial authority to demand that a flood study be done. The City did not request a flood study for
Westwood
Lake which was upgraded in
2008. The estimated costs of repairing
the dams and spillways in 2010 was $3,000,000.
Revised classification standards
were introduced in Oct. 2011and therefore did not apply to work suggested for
the Colliery Dams. Staff should have to account for any discrepancy between
costs associated with repairing the dams at this time and what could have been
achieved a few years ago.
Further information about this
issue is available on our website www.savecollierydam.org
Jeff Solomon
Colliery Dam Preservation Society
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