A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.
The Cowichan Watershed Board feels something needs to be done about the fact that 28 per cent of residents in Duncan and North Cowichan don’t know the source of their water with even fewer knowing how much money they spend annually on water. This makes me wonder what the percentage is in Metro Vancouver. Pop quiz: Where does the Lower Mainland’s water comes from? Feel free to comment below….and there is a freebie two paragraphs down.
Burnaby city council unanimously approved a contract worth $950,000 with MCW Custom Energy Solutions for Phase 2 of the city’s 2011/2012 Building Performance Improvements Project that looks to improve buildings’ green performance.
Metro Vancouver taxpayers may have to pay $300 million to filter drinking water from the Coquitlam reservoir if a proposed federal target is adopted calling for a higher level of water clarity.
Great news for parent in New Westminster as the the Ministry of Education and the New Westminster school district signed project agreements for a new elementary school and middle school. John Robson Elementary School will be rebuilt on the former St. Mary’s Hospital site while the former Robson Elementary School will be torn down, and a new middle school will be built on that site.
The City of Surrey continues its quest to enliven its public realm courtesy of the City’s Parks and Beautification departments that set up the PARKit program in the North Surrey Rec Centre parking lot. This will feature planters, benches, fake and real turf, and a rotating series of food trucks. PARKit will remain in place through to the end of the City’s Earth Day celebrations during Party for the Planet.
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