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Page SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday February IS IWI THAW ITS TOLL Sluice sates get workout Severe cold thaw best test for dam gates A week mild reduced Georgetown of heavy Drive undergoing recons true Hon following a promised to a sewer and project to an imputable muddy road firm The towns engineering department responded by dumping a Motorists get mired along Dayfoot Drive By STEPHEN FROST Herald Special Despite the fact that vc experienced one of coldest winters on record flooding In the Glen has been minima When contacted by The Herald in midJanuary Credit Valley Conservation Authority general manager Glenn Schnarr commented that the most important element Inreducing flooding in the Glen was the alterations to the paper mill dam II appears that the lower ing of the water by the use of sluice gates has been a tremendous success ho said With the Increased velocity Ice hasn had a chance form in many parts of the river this year Most residents It seems will substantiate that The sluice themselves ore controlled by tho CVCA There should be no trouble as far is vandalism goes or tampering with the gates Mr Schnarr claims Special equipment is needed to lower and raise the gates and only we have it In our possession The muddy condition of Georgetown s Drive Is being watched closely by the town engineering de partment deputy engineer Ted told The Herald Monday rain and mild temperatures had combined with road construction to make the street almost impassable the town dumped Indies of largegrade limestone gravel control deter lor The surface has firmed up considerably since day Mr said but warned that the rood could get soft spin once the surface frost thaws just have to keep on top of it The scene of a major storm sewer and term a In renew program Dayfoot Drive has been under construction since last autumn The joint region town project Is ex to be completed by the summer Mr Some delays In the work have been experienced by York Excavating of Concord Ontario during the project because of old unknown utilities below the roads surface Once the project is com Mr Bollinger said residents will have a rood which looks and drives a loi better Residents In the James and Charles Streets area of Georgetown arc concerned that flooding In Rem cm Park last week underlines the need to do something about the park s drainage system Following a complaint from one homeowner the towns engineering depart drained the pond In the park which had swelled from three days of ably warm arid wet weather The resident said she was worried that children might play near the flooded banks While noting that the town does have remedial work planned for the area which may be approved this years budget John McDonald said Tie has received other complaints from residents living next to the area numerous tribu taries Shallow water in the summer tends to stagnate the pond neighbors say promoting odors and The remedial work town clerk administrator Ken Richardson told The Herald Monday Is part of the ongoing maintenance at the park and wilt apparently involve culvert repairs at the southeastern end of the property More extensive work for he area may bo planned in the future McDonald said he Ihlnks the project Is a step In the right direction toward alleviating resident ROTORS AND TOWERS ABOUT OUR SKOAL Mr SPECIALS 1953 Jelinek ousted from Commons Continued from page Al Mr attacked the government claiming that a great majority of his disapprove of the efforts to return the constitution in an amended form He explained how his family fled his native Czechoslovakia to seek freedom and privileges guaranteed In a democratic country Buthe also pointed to rltles that exist between the government s proposed const tutlon and that of the Soviet stales It Is interesting to note that both those constitutions do not include property rights There fore Is It any wonder that he Kremlin or the Soviet Union through Its official newspaper has finally thrown Its support behind the Prime Minister and the Liberal government to Mr Jelinek One of the advantages we have here is that we can hit back and forth hard as we want We can argue until we arc blue or red in he face Mr explained Con and all that is In order But In order to keep peace we have established certain lines which we will not Mr Blals said that by his behavior Mr Jelinek is directing himself toward that sort or abuse from which his own family lied leaving a country they felt they no longer could live In I suggest to him that If he respects the Institutions and the traditions of Canada and our parliamentary institution he ought to accede to the request that this speaker has made of him and do so prompt Last year Mr Schnarr walked the river from the Main Street bridge in Glen Williams to the dam checking the thickness of the ice It varied In thickness from ID Inches to three feet he said Most significantly It was three feet thick at the mill pond Although havent walked the river this year think you would be hardput to find a cop of more than six Inches anywhere on the river at this time midJanuary I Environment Canada reports that this winter has been per cent colder than last year wllh an average temperature of for the days ending Jan 15 that four degrees colder than the all time average Mr Schnarr told The Herald that he felt channelization has also helped the situation to some extent Through channelization we tried to give the river uniform depth and width he said This puts us In a better position to deal with the ice that comes down every year from Terra Calta and ham On the question of the sluice gales being too narrow to allow- free passage of Ice down stream Mr Schnarr replied that It is expected the dam will not allow the huge volumes of Ice to pass through The gates t that wide and there Is always a large amount of ice from the areas upstream from the Glen he said However this year there tahugclcecapal the pond to impede the low of this extra Ice There Is also a large area behind the dam now to store ice I can l forsec any problem but It will be several years before we can sec if vc finally solved the flood In the Glen I feel confident hat our work will be a tremendous success Mr Schnarr acknowledged however that the CVCA did want the dam removed feeling it serves no useful purpose The town dldn t agree Two Independent engineer Ing firms ten Sims Ltd and Chrysler Latham recommended removal of the dam Town council elected however to go with the sluice gates the more expensive of the two options One of the main problems causing flooding over years Is the formation of si us nice created In moving water on cold winter days It moves downstream until it meets an obstruction such as the ice in the paper mill dam When his happens it usually freezes to the river bottom SPRING ICE In the spring ice passing downstream runs into this massive piece of Ice and backs up causing flooding A 1WJ CVCA report confirms this heavy Ice forming in pools ahead of dams helps to cause floods In the still pond waters Ice forms to a thickness of two to three feet and these massive floes will jam where the lighter stream Ice would pass un obstructed The sluice gates when lowered Increase the velocity of water passing at the dam thereby eliminating the massive ice cap that used to exist Many people felt that removal of the dam would have accomplished this Just as effectively Some proponents of the dam removal appear to be reconsidering their stand because of the apparent success of the program and sluice gates so far this year Dave Williamson told The Herald the sluice galea seem to have done the Job It been extremely cold for a long time and no shah Ice has accumulated in the river Mr Williamson said That a the biggest teat alterations could had There was a lot of sailing through here on Friday morning last week and it t get stuck where it usually docs Mr Williamson said the should be commended for Its efforts to prevent flood especially former manager Harry Watson who was open to meeting residents at all hours MAY SUE CVCA Ltd president and general manager Arthur Klee and packer Mike damage at he Glen Wlllaroi plant after Credit River flood waters spilled Into the workshop An estimated IT M worth of raw material plus employee time were lost and machinery damaged last Wednesday at the plant which manufactures bookshelves and other furniture Items Dredging lira Ion and lions on the nearby paper mill dam spared Glen Williams residents much of the damage which In previous years made headline during the spring thaw Herald photo SMALL ENGINE REPAIRS NOW AVAILABLE Tuno up your lawn movers and NOW tor spring and summer use WARES SERVICE CENTRE Armstrong Road Georgetown In the summer residents of James and Charles Streets in Georgetown complain thai the pond in Remembrance Park stagnates and breeds not to mention the from rotting algae But last week unseasonably mild and wet weather bloated the pond stream posing a threat to In the area Town officials 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