Editor's Note: When looking at these photos, it is sobering to realize that the environmental destruction you see here is on land that was in Silver Star Provincial Park until April, 2001, when it was deleted from the park by an Order in Council so that Silver Star Mountain Resort could build a golf course. The proposed opening date for the golf course was to be June 2000. The only current plans for the area is to log all 18 fairways but just use them for sewage effluent disposal. Hmmmm.....I wonder if this land would have been deleted from the park if the public knew then what it knows now. 

      Silver Star Golf Course and Sewage Effluent Disposal Area

             11th fairway looking west from tee - August 2008

 

 

         Silver Star Golf Course and Sewage Effluent Disposal Area

            10th fairway looking west from tee - October 8th, 2008 

 

10th fairway looking west from tee. Photo taken April 25th, 2009. Average snow depth was 3 feet.

 

17th fairway looking west from green. Photo taken March 29th, 2009. Average snow depth was 4 feet.

 

       Silver Star Golf Course and Sewage Effluent Disposal Area

               CCW from top left: Holes #10, 11, 17, and 18

 

         Silver Star Golf Course and Sewage Effluent Disposal Area

                         10th hole looking west from tee

 

            Silver Star Golf Course and Sewage Effluent Disposal Area

          18th hole showing typical fairway condition with many stumps

 

         Silver Star Golf Course and Sewage Effluent Disposal Area

            First windfall after moderate storm - October 8th, 2008

 

                  Small wetland near 10th green

 

                Large wetland near the 11th fairway

 

     Logging debris being burned on 11th fairway - October 2008

 

             Small wetland beside 11th fairway

 

Telephoto view of the ski slopes from the 18th tee

 

Large wetland near 11th fairway

 

4 inch polyethylene sewage effluent line ready to be welded. Photo taken on road between sewage lagoons and golf course area.

 

Portable thermowelding unit used to weld 50 foot sections of sewage effluent line together

 

Excavator used to dig trench for sewage effluent line to golf course area

 

Polyethylene pipe and trench along access road to golf course area

 

End of the sewage effluent line near 11th green - September 27th, 2008

 

Buried effluent line ending near 11th green

 

Shallow pit at end of sewage line near 11th green shows soil depth of about 2 feet before hitting bedrock.

 

 

           Silver Star Golf Course and Sewage Effluent Disposal Area

                  Welcome sign at border of former Provincial Park

 

Updated signage after Silver Star Resort learns of Coalition

   members biking into golf course area and taking photos.

     Perhaps the next sign will prohibit photography.