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Project exceeds initial cost by $345,000
Wildfire battle
Timely weather break helps fire crews contain Cultus Lake blaze BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
Tyson Road roundabout hits design snag
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timely break in the hot, dry weather helped fire crews contain a 1.3-hectare wildfire near Cultus Lake this week. The blaze, which was discovered Monday near Lindell Beach, was 100 per cent contained by Wednesday morning and crews had begun mopping up, according to Coastal Fire Centre information officer Donna MacPherson. “We got precip[itation] on the fire this morning,” she said, “so the fire behaviour has dropped off quite a bit, but the little bit of rain that they did get isn’t going to put out the larger debris that is still burning.”
BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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SEE MORE PHOTOS layar With the fire contained, firefighters were in the area breaking apart, digging up, wetting and burying smouldering debris. “It’s exactly the same thing you do with a camp fire if you do it right,” MacPherson said. “If you don’t do it right, it comes back again and then we have another problem.” Officials believe the fire, which burned near a popular diving spot, was sparked by human activity since no lightning strikes had been reported in the area before Wednesday’s break in the weather. The B.C. Wildfire Management Branch deployed two air tankers, two helicopters and a Martin Mars water bomber to fight the blaze as well as a 20-person unit crew and a three-person rappel crew. No homes or other property were See WILDFIRE, Page 10
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A timely break in the weather and the amazing efforts of fire crews has helped to contain a wildfire in Cultus Lake. Officials believe the fire was man-made as no lightning strikes had been reported in the area.
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n unforeseen BC Hydro requirement has added $345,000 to the cost of the City of Chilliwack’s Tyson Road roundabout projects. That, along with the design-build proponent running $55,000 over budget, means the entire project will be pushing $2 million, up from the budgeted $1,575,000. The city’s preliminary design budget estimated $80,000 to move BC Hydro and Telus poles. That preliminary design, however, was based on continued overhead transmission lines, something BC Hydro said is not permitted in the roundabouts. The city was then quoted $425,000. At Tuesday’s meeting, city council considered three design-build proposals for the design and construction of the project. Martens Asphalt’s low bid of approximately $1 million was chosen by council for the project. Other costs for the project include land acquisition. Since the Evans Interchange was created, increased traffic before and after school has led to large traffic lineups at the Watson/Tyson
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