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A LEGACY FOR THE COMMUNITY The second phase also brought Mike Herold, P.Eng., of Herold Engineering, into the project team, to design wing walls and bridge approaches for the Wallinger Avenue Bridge, which is now the only vehicular creek crossing in downtown Kimberley. Herold also designed the one short stretch of concrete channel, with complex hydraulic analyses by LaCas, that could not be avoided. And as much as Brian LaCas dislikes that section of concrete, even he is able to overlook that less-than- optimal design change in favour of the larger picture. “I am not aware of another project of this scale in BC, or in Canada for that matter, where someone has taken a canal, a flume, and turned it into a river,” says LaCas. “This whole project was unique. I was allowed to be very creative and draw out what I thought would work, and we did it very successfully and with a good budget. I think the city got really good value for this scale of project.” Fox and Barraclough agree. “The project was supposed to be for flood mitigation, not a recreational site, but the city got both,” says Fox. “The downtown is secure, the creek is packed with fish, it’s surrounded by trails and walkable paths, and, because Cori took this on as a personal endeavour, she put in a lot of hours she never charged us for. Tyee Homes, too, I think. A great deal for a project that will be there another 100 years.”

The Mark Creek Flume Flood Management and Stream Rehabilitation Project received Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s 2017 Environmental Award. L-R: Division of Environmental Professionals Chair, Barry Azevedo, P.Eng., with Cori Barraclough, Evan Sykes, P.Eng., Brian LaCas, P.Eng., and 2016/2017 president, Bob Stewart, P.Eng.

Says Barraclough, “$7 million sounds like a lot of money, but it is reasonable for a project that made the city substantially safer and more beautiful. Mark Creek as it runs through the downtown now is a community asset. Teck and the BC Ministry of Environment started this revitalization many years ago by cleaning up the acid drainage and fixing the water quality. Our job was to bring back the habitat. The concrete is gone, the fish are back, and the people are connected once again to the creek.” j

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