The health of the Salmon river is important to Chinook Salmon

The Salmon River is again one that is used to compare the health of the various streams in the area. At present, this river is noted as being one in which there is a good survival rate of Chinook salmon according to the DFO. The Coughlan Creek runs directly into the Salmon River, the confluence of the two being not far from the proposed gravel pit at Brown's Pit.

Water versus Gravel; We Cannot Afford to Gamble

According to Kevin Falcon, the government is waiting for an answer from their hydrologist, who they expect to determine whether they should take the gravel out of Brown’s Pit. When opinions have been given by several other studies and those express reservations regarding that controversial option, should our government move on the opinion of only one? Is that not taking a gamble, the gamble being that only one person is right? Now what if that one person is wrong and the others are right. Then what is to be done? Our water would be contaminated by the gravel removal! What other option would we have? We would have gambled and lost. I’m not a moonlight gambler. I cannot afford to loose the water we depend on and neither can the other people of the Municipality of Langley. Water is a necessity of life.

In case you missed today's Langley Advance you might want to click on this link for a little chuckle:
http://www2.canada.com/langleyadvance/news/opinion/story.html?id=b694dc25-d173-42a5-a497-2ef86bf83e58&p=1