The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-08-29, Page 5J
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GOR R I E DAM—Although the cost has escalated the Malt- of extensive undermining on the downstream side as well as
land Valley Conservation Authority still hopes to have the leakage underneath the dam will add at least 50 per cent to
Gorrie dam completely repaired before winter. Discovery the estimated $100,000 repair cost.
only 25 per cent water
management related it leeVea the
t authority to . Pct up roughly 49Y a per cent of the final bill through
its municipal levy.
Mr. Deslauriers said the
authority will try to pervade the
ministry the dam does provide
Protection from flooding and so
get more grant under the higher
figure.
He added that if costs go too
high the authority will also
cobsider phasingthe levy over
three years rather than two as
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presently planned. The levy 4s
charged to all 32 member
municipalities in the waterahed.
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Miss Nancy Dickson has been
chosen by. the 'Chamber' of
i Commerce to,,. :..t Belmore
w: <, as a contestant in the Howict
Fall Fair Queen pageant.
T4„>401;4 ,draw . was, held
r recently- with Cathy Baird
winning $300; $200 going to Don
Robinson and Gib Arnold
k yax
receiving =100.
Mr. and Mrs.. Gerald Smith and
s Miss Jackie Dustow spent a week
in Eastern Ontario showing
x . .. cattle at the Sutton Fair: They
x
won 'the championship and had
the -reserve champion bull over
all breeds. In Peterborough they
r x
had the reserve champion buff.
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� Mr. and Mrs. Orval Cameron,
former residents of Belmore,
c
visited the area last week from
DAM REPAIRS—Workmen were wiring up the reinforcing steel in preparation for pour- Tom Darling has returned
ing a concrete wall at one end of the Gorrie dam last week. Repairs are underway on the home frqln the West. i
dam which washed out in a flood five years ago. The iltiget Girls' softball team
lost 15-11 to Chepstow and were
again defeated by the mentioned put
orrie -dam repairsopposition in the final game The Bantam Girls were also put
out of action for this season by
GWingham who defeated them n-
10 in the final game. Sherri Busby
seora e o r a i- o n and Wendy McKee scored home
runs but the team lost in spite of
their efforts.' The Belmore
Although at times the costs which set the cost of repairs at Midget Boys advanced to their
appear to be rising faster than p strue the ministry gives an 85 next phase of competition against
1;75,000. However by the time it per Adent grant on water Winthrop and lost the final game
the dam walls, the Maitland got approval to call tenders this management projects and 50 per 42. The second game in Belmore
Valley Conservation Authority year the estimate had to be cent on recreational projects. was a prolonged one, going to 13
r(MVCA) t
) sstillhopes revised upward when the four Since it considers the Gorrie innings. Belmore lost the battle 2-
pahevie Dam tender bids all came in at around Dam 75 per cent recreational and 1
completed this fall. $100,000, not including
The discovery of new problems engineering fees or contingency
with the structure has pushed costs.
back the deadline and added The contract was awarded to
about 50 per cent to the estimated Machan Construction of Monkton
cost of rebuilding the dam, and once work started and the Guaranteed Investment
washed out in a flood five years site was dried up additional Certificates
ago. ` damage was found.
Ianeslauriers, authority "We're now looking at ad-
resourl manager, said work on ditional costs that can't be ac -
the dam is going ahead while the curately judged until the work is
MVCA awaits approval from the completed," Mr. Deslauriers NOW
natural resources ministry on commented.
new additions to the project, He said a fair bit of un -
including construction of a cutoff dermining was discovered on the
wall on the upstream side to stop downstream side of one section of
"Piping'—leakage of water the cement pad and this must
under the dam. now be excavated and filled with
This addition, as well as the concrete. It was also found the
discovery that undermining on dam is built on top of timber
the downstream side is worse cribbing and there is quite a bit of p►irmit
than expected, has pushed the''piping" of water under the dam.
?stimated costs to "$150,000 As a result the engineer
plus" and moved back the ex recommends excavation and
)ected completion date for a installation of a cutoff wall about
,month to the beginning of eight feet deep for the width of
november. However Mr. the apron on the upstream side.
:)eslaurierg noted that heavy fall The authority hopes this ad- Af X" "&Lost for Coe t0 FNell'eam
*sins could foul up the work ditional work will prevent any
schedule and raise costs even further washout of the concrete V R�
W�nlDore. structure. it is also leaving a AND
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Residents of Gorrie and the section of earth dike lower than AND �nCY
wrrounding area have called for the rest as a safety valve in case ' TRUST
of the dam ever since it of future flooding and is looking
washed out in 1974, but the MVCA at systems for emergency .S%JKLP1844
iad difficulty convincing the removal of the stop logs. Contact OU! O//1C@:
ninistry to approve the project Mr. Deslauriers added that in
'ince the dam was classed as a light of the additional work the Main Street East
,ecreational rather than a water authority is approaching the Listowel
nanagement structure. ministry to try and get it to pick 291.1460
Last year the authority ob- up a larger share of the tab. &Umber: Canada Deposit insurance corporation
ained an engineering study Linder the present grant – ---
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