Earlier today - Tony Ball, a resident of Moore Mountain posted the following to the
WILLIAMS LAKE Stay up to Date Facebook page on behalf of all Moore Mountain residents:
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"The road has washouts and in amongst that we made the determination," Muraca said.
“Then in the spring of 2015 there were numerous washouts that made the road dangerous, Muraca said.”
We would like to point out to Mr. Muraka that the residents of Moore Mountain travel this road daily.
The residents would like it known that there were not “numerous washouts that made the road dangerous”.
In fact there was one large pile of mud and water that came down in the spring of this year, not more. This did not happen on the hill where the steep road is, where it is said to be dangerous. This mud came down on the flat lower part of the road just below Sigurdsons and before the bridge at the bottom of the valley. This made a mess across the road and forced water to run down the road into the creek. We had to drive over a pile a mud for a few days until the City came down and moved some dirt, it didn't create a danger to anyone in the valley trail, residents and recreation users still used the road AND this could have happened anywhere including the road we are being rerouted to. In late September / early October of this year the City had excavators dig ditches all along the road where this happened to provide more than adequete drainage for any run off that drains right into the creek.
We find Mr. Muraka’s statements to be not quite right. If this is the position the Mr. Muraka would like to take, we encourage him to bring forward his incident reports and work orders to prove his position.
We encourage both the public and the City leaders to get out of their offices and come down and see this for themselves.
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"When you couple that with winter snow, ice and large equipment, we didn't feel comfortable maintaining the road in the winter. We decided we would do some reassessment in the spring and see if we can put some capital funding into the road to make it safer for everyone," he added.If the city work crews ___________________________________________________________
We would like it known that at no time during this ordeal has any City representative spoken about Capital upgrades to this road until this press release. In fact during Mrs. Hillegeist’s somewhat heated initial conversation with Mr. Muraka he stated that we pay our taxes to the CRD and not the City to contribute to any maintenance on the road and that I should take it up with the CRD. Mr. Muraka’s prompted us to do just that. We took it up with both the CRD and the Ministry of Transportation both of which advised the residents that this is a City issue and a decision was made entirely by the Mayor and Council.
After several days pushing and fighting for information, we were told that the road would be re-evaluated in the spring.
We would also like to ask Mr. Muraka and the City officials, if the road is suddenly so dangerous, why he had his work crews go down Frizzi Road, sand and plow from top to bottom, not once but twice, THIS WEEK. Why would you do this when the road is being shut down and why would you risk the lives of your workers, being that this road is so dangerous. There were also several City vehicles travelling up and down the road yesterday.
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The Moore Mountain residents are requesting the City to step down immediately on their closure of Frizzi Road, stop or remove the gate they are installing to block access, and make the right decision to begin open, honest consultation with the residents, public and other Government bodies in the New Year.
This is no longer just an issue of a road closure affecting 17 residents, this is an issue of Public Officials showing professionalism, honesty and ethics to the public in general.
Landowners and Residents of Moore Mountain
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