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Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 9:47 am

Elected officials and the Ashland community will soon have to decide just how much the towns pool in Carter Park is worth. Rough estimates to replace or renovate the aging aquatic facility are running in the neighborhood of at least $1 million, which poses tough questions for a town that had to dip heavily into its savings account just to balance this years budget.

Last spring, the town identified major problems at the pool and decided to start setting aside money for a possible renovation or full-on replacement. Since then, Charles Hartgrove, town manager, said theyve been working with Doug Aurund, of Siska Aurund, a landscape architectural firm based in Tidewater, who is also the original, early 1990s designer of the pool, to identify possible long-term solutions. Current options include renovation and expansion of the existing pool or new construction altogether.

Were just trying to get a baseline of things that we can bring forward as a staff to Parks and Rec and council, Hartgrove said.

Town council voted last year to set aside $100,000 in the capital improvement plan, funding repeated in this years budget for a full, on-hand amount of $200,000.

Though the current pool is fully operational, Hartgrove said that a steady stream of maintenance costs have warranted taking a deeper look at whether continuing to fix problems as they emerge is sustainable.

The most prominent problem, and one that kicked off the initial talks concerning a possible replacement of the pool, was a mysterious leak. Hartgrove said the pool continues to lose water, but theyve been working with contractors to fix what they can.

Just like anything thats got that type of age on it, the best analogy I can give is its like an old car you have to decide at some point, do you replace the transmission and engine and keep running the car for a long time or do you finally bite the bullet and go buy another used car or a new car altogether? Hartgrove said. And I think thats where were at with the pool. Pool future in doubt?

The other, rather obvious, decision the towns elected officials and the greater community will have to make is: Does Ashland continue operating a pool? Thats not a forgone conclusion, Hartgrove said. Ive not heard a lot of feedback that leads me in that direction, but thats definitely something the community needs to discuss and that council needs to discuss: if thats a service they want to continue as part of our Parks and Rec program. Hartgrove has recommended to council assembling a pool committee comprised of community stakeholders, the town Parks and Recreation committee and anyone else in town with any expertise and who might want to help out, with the goal of having a final recommendation in six months to a year. Staff is not going to make a recommendation without clearly vetting this through the community and, ultimately, to town council, he said.

Citizens will also have the chance to weigh in. Later this summer, the town will conduct a citizen survey the first in three years and Hartgrove hopes to tailor a questionaire concerning how the town should address the pool going forward.

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KUCHING: A proposed Wildlife Corridor linking protected areas from Kalimantan to Sabah could help boost the rich ecosystem of Borneo.

World Wide Fund for Nature Malaysia (WWF-Malaysia) head of conservation Dr Henry Chan said the fragmented and scattered locations of biodiversity in Sarawak would limit the gene pool of animals.

Even though we have national parks, animals cannot move out or breed among other species, therefore the gene pool will be limited, and this would even jeopardise their health.

This proposed landscape connectivity or corridor will help with the migration of animals, Chan said in a presentation at the Youth Green X-Change Programme Talk on Sustainable Development held at Azam Conference Room, Azam Complex in Jalan Crookshank here yesterday.

The transboundary corridor from Sebangau National Park to Mount Kinabalu National Park will also help the government and private sector to expand these areas.

Chan said the idea for a Wildlife Corridor was broached by the Sultan of Brunei during the Heart of Borneo meeting last year, and that implementation would be carried out in stages.

Chan revealed that WWF-Malaysia had five Priority Conservation Areas (PCA) in their endeavours (including the Wildlife Corridor) which are core conservation zones, sustainable land use and forest management, Key Watershed Areas for sustaining freshwater needs as well as stakeholder engagement.

Hopefully, the desired outcome is that Totally Protected Areas will be surrounded by healthy production forests where areas used by the community as well as palm oil and timber plantations will be connected by intact ecosystems and high conservation value areas.

Currently there are 31 national parks, eight nature reserves and four wildlife sanctuaries in Sarawak.

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Cameron HighlandsKUALA LUMPUR - One of the country's main tourist hotspots, Cameron Highlands is poised to face natural disasters in the form of landslides and flash floods, if forest and land encroachment in the area continues to be widespread.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) Science and Technology Faculty geological expert, Prof Madya Dr Tajul Anuar Jamaluddin said encroachment could cause landslides and flash floods as Cameron Highlands, located 1,829 metres above sea level, is a hilly area that could easily suffer from soil erosion.

"This area is hilly so the likely occurrence of soil erosion or landslides is very high in the event that illegal tree felling is ongoing.

"This is because there is no more undergrowth to act as a soil binder to strengthen the soil position in the area," he told Bernama when contacted here today.

He was commenting on Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri G. Palanivel's statement on the need to curb illegal land clearing and occupation in the highlands, which had increasingly become rampant, resulting in the affected areas facing risks like landslides and flash floods.

According to Dr Tajul, plant roots in a particular place acted to stablise slopes by binding the soil particles.

The evapotranspiration process that is made by plants can reduce the pore pressure during a certain period by draining water in the soil.

Hence the removal of plant growth due to forest encroachment activities will cause the stability of the environment to be disturbed and cause a natural disaster.

Dr Tajul also said land encroachment would cause soil siltation, resulting in rivers becoming shallower and prone to flash floods.

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New laws to clarify the relationship between builders and home owners have raised concerns among consumer advocates, who say the changes could make it harder to take action over shoddy work.

The changes to the Home Building Act, which regulates builders and contracts for building work, have passed NSW Parliament and will take effect within months.

The changes include a new definition of defective work, a demand for a schedule of progress payments in contracts, and tougher penalties for builders who refuse to rectify shoddy work.

Fair Trading NSW assistant commissioner John Tansey said the reform package was the result of considerable consultation with stakeholders.

"It is trying to particularly look at reducing disputes around issues that arise when they are doing building work, and giving all parties greater clarity about their rights and obligations," he said.

Progress payments, a standard part of most agreements, must now be included in a schedule as part of any building contract.

"Your control over the release of progress payments is one of the main safeguards a consumer has to make sure they are getting what they paid for, and they only hand over money when they have got what they paid for," Mr Tansey said.

"And it's equally important to ensure that consumers know when they will be due to pay builders, because that money is the lifeblood of the builder's project, and their business."

But Michelle Ericoli, a lawyer at the Home Building Advocacy Service, which represents home owners in disputes, had "grave concerns" the reforms reduced options available to people complaining of poor building work.

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