The City of North Vancouver is reassuring residents and visitors that recirculated water will be used during the Slide the City event taking place next month.
Concerns were raised about the event’s water usage, due to the water restrictions in place across Metro Vancouver.
However, the city says the event will go ahead and staff have asked organizers to recirculate the water used, rather than have a continuous flow-through. Recirculation will reduce the amount of water needed by 80 per cent.
The City of North Vancouver provided this breakdown of how the water will be used:
- Under continuous flow, an open hydrant will feed the slide at the top of the course and the water is discharged to the sanitary sewer at the bottom.
- For recirculation, a pool will be created at the bottom of the course.
- The pool slows the users at the end of the run and allows a space to draft and pump the water back to the top of the course.
- The water will be treated with chlorine much like a swimming pool.
- At the end of the event, we’ll recycle the remaining water, most likely for irrigation.
- With recirculation, the event will use approximately 50,000 litres. For context, a garden sprinkler running for an hour uses between 1,000 and 1,500 litres of water.
Slide the City will take place on Aug. 22. The slide will begin at Victoria Park (Keith Road) and travel down Lonsdale to 3rd Street. All 6,000 tickets have sold out and a percentage of sales have been donated to the Canadian Cancer Society.
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