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From: ashadra@pop.kin.bc.ca (Andy Shadrack)
Subject: Dr Andrew Larder Agrees To Negotiate
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 07:41:24 +0000

 For Immediate Release


 Cranbrook - July 20, 1999

After a brief wrangle in BC Supreme Court and several hours contemplation each party to the Erickson Water Users Society judicial review agreed to sit down and try negotiating a settlement to the current chlorination dispute.
Around noon July 20, Mr Justice Melkin, heard each party state that they preferred to negotiate rather than continue the current litigation, which has now cost the East Kootenay Community Health Services Society in excess of $26,400, the Erickson Improvement District $12,000 and the Erickson Water Users Society and Water Action Group around $5,000.

The breakthrough came just before noon when Dr Andrew Larder agreed to try the idea of negotiations, that had been discussed by all three lawyers and Ralph Moore of the Water Action Group during the morning. A teleconference will be held Thursday July 22 to discuss the format of these discussions, with an understanding that should they fail litigation will again proceed on Novemeber 9. In the interim Mr Justice Melkin has agreed to make himself available to all of the parties should they need his assistance, and noted that this matter would now only come before him in Cranbrook should negotiations fail.

In Court Ralph Moore of the Water Action Group stated that he was pleased that negotiations were back on track, a position he had held since the fall of 1998. The bottom line for both the Erickson Water Users and Water Action Group remains achieving potable water under the Safe Drinking Water Regulations without use of chlorine.

Mr Moore later expressed appreciation for the decision of the Mayor Bill Profili and the City of Rossland, in the Regional District Kootenay-Boundary, to publicly announce that they were donating to the prepatory legal costs of the Water Action Group. "It is the tremendous support within Erickson and the growing support across the region from individual citizens, water user groups and now the City of Rossland that have made these negotiations possible," concluded Moore.

For More Information contact Ralph Moore at: (250) 428-7479 

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Peter Ronald
Tel: 250.361-3621
Fax: 250.361-3682
Email: impulse@islandnet.com

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