Port Edward is tired of the local picnic and recreation destination being ignored by those that should be inclined to help out.
Diana Lake continues to suffer from an accumulation of logs that are jamming up the works at the local park. The Daily News featured their concerns on the front page of Thursday’s paper.
PORT ED WANTS LOG JAM CLEARED FROM DIANA LAKE
Issue flares again as summer picnic season begins with lake inaccessible
By Patrick Witwicki
The Daily News
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Page One
B. C. Parks have a reputation of being among the most picturesque in Canada, if not the world. And then there’s Diana Lake, a provincial park that B. C. seems to have forgotten about to the point where it is now an embarrassment to the district of Port Edward and the North Coast area in general.
At Tuesday evening’s council meeting, Coun. James Brown once again pointed out the obvious. “Diana Lake out there is just awful,” he said. “You can’t swim, you can’t do anything.”
But the issue of fallen trees blocking the beach wasn’t a new one.
Port Edward has discussed the problem before; including at the conclusion of last year’s summer season, when the district had hoped something would be done in time for spring.
Now that the summer is in full swing, councilors are once again calling for someone to improve the state of the park.
Mayor Dave MacDonald pointed out the continued dilemma that has been holding everything back – the question of whose responsibility is it to clean up the plethora of logs plugging up both the beach and the lake.
“We were going to get together with (B. C. Parks) and get rid of those logs,” he said. “But it’s not that easy. Once we go in there, it’s going to be expected that we always have to go in there.”
Chief Administrative Officer Ron Bedard echoed similar sentiments from last year when he claimed that he still believed it was Skeena Cellulose’s responsibility.
The dam at Diana Lake is owned by the mill, which used water drawn from the lake in its plant, which is perhaps one reason why B. C. Parks hasn’t stepped in to clean up the mess as of yet.
“I believe the logs are the mill’s responsibility,” Bedard said.
MacDonald said that during the off season, the Diana Lake issue was unfortunately forgotten about until the park’s reopening in late May.
However, he said it is now time for the district to insist that something is done.
“Once again, us and our neighbours have got to start putting pressure on B. C. Parks,” he said.
“Maybe at least we can get together with B. C. Parks and get them to do something, or help us to (talk to the mill owners.)
“We all know it looks awful, and we though that something would be done in the fall, but it hasn’t happened yet.”
Council then decided to try to get a representative from B. C. Parks to attend a future council meeting to discuss the issue further.
Issue flares again as summer picnic season begins with lake inaccessible
By Patrick Witwicki
The Daily News
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Page One
B. C. Parks have a reputation of being among the most picturesque in Canada, if not the world. And then there’s Diana Lake, a provincial park that B. C. seems to have forgotten about to the point where it is now an embarrassment to the district of Port Edward and the North Coast area in general.
At Tuesday evening’s council meeting, Coun. James Brown once again pointed out the obvious. “Diana Lake out there is just awful,” he said. “You can’t swim, you can’t do anything.”
But the issue of fallen trees blocking the beach wasn’t a new one.
Port Edward has discussed the problem before; including at the conclusion of last year’s summer season, when the district had hoped something would be done in time for spring.
Now that the summer is in full swing, councilors are once again calling for someone to improve the state of the park.
Mayor Dave MacDonald pointed out the continued dilemma that has been holding everything back – the question of whose responsibility is it to clean up the plethora of logs plugging up both the beach and the lake.
“We were going to get together with (B. C. Parks) and get rid of those logs,” he said. “But it’s not that easy. Once we go in there, it’s going to be expected that we always have to go in there.”
Chief Administrative Officer Ron Bedard echoed similar sentiments from last year when he claimed that he still believed it was Skeena Cellulose’s responsibility.
The dam at Diana Lake is owned by the mill, which used water drawn from the lake in its plant, which is perhaps one reason why B. C. Parks hasn’t stepped in to clean up the mess as of yet.
“I believe the logs are the mill’s responsibility,” Bedard said.
MacDonald said that during the off season, the Diana Lake issue was unfortunately forgotten about until the park’s reopening in late May.
However, he said it is now time for the district to insist that something is done.
“Once again, us and our neighbours have got to start putting pressure on B. C. Parks,” he said.
“Maybe at least we can get together with B. C. Parks and get them to do something, or help us to (talk to the mill owners.)
“We all know it looks awful, and we though that something would be done in the fall, but it hasn’t happened yet.”
Council then decided to try to get a representative from B. C. Parks to attend a future council meeting to discuss the issue further.
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