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THIS CORVE ITE Rot ‘100 ‘hot to ‘handle recently as its, 7
| prepared’ to .enter on to the Upper Levels Highway.
Firefighters. canleky Rot to the scene and extinguished the :

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cr: “and. the ‘school board, “he: said,.

have, conseuenth gun discuse-

again:
22, Commu
; ‘ecti is also i increasing.

_athletes.

ty: interest in 1 the pro: ‘

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. courage the winning, ‘wadition | of

West © Vancouver high “school

‘the only tack, we hav
“Murrell,

» athletics in: West’ Vancouver high |

schools, so it wouid make a worth

"sent crashing down to two

- Friday, June 24, 1988 - North Share News

BLASTING SUSPENSION CLARIFIED

Construction
site remains | _

closed

after

boulders fall.

: A WORKER’ AS) Cémpensation Board (wey clos

4 Caulfcild-area construction site, from which boulders were}
Montiverdi Place homes June'!1,
A remains | in effect while engineers work to ensure safety 0 on
the property and surrounding slope. a

The rocks came down asa result
tof blasting work, carried out by
Burnaby’s Superior Blasting Co.
‘Ltd, ata residential lot being

. developed by Mike Brody Con- °
Struction ‘west of. Meadfeild. Drive ©.

‘Hin West Vancouver.
24h (Contrary. to (an “earlier
_ report of a large, approximately
: three-tonne boulder. rocketing”
: qver the slope, Superior: Blasting

| maintains the granite piece rotied:

| down the slope. The rock shattered
| the. sundeck .and smashed a sup-
port beam of a home at 5352 Mon-

tiverdi Place. = ®

TA second boulder, tore a hole in...

‘the wooden walkway ° of a, home

across ‘the street at 5355 Montiver-.

di Place.

Said WCB coordinétor of media ‘
- selations Judy Kick: “The. site will.
the |

i remain ‘under closure until
> enpinecring firm has certified the
site safe. We ure waiting for writ-
ten procedures “for: safe
removal, Engineering. firm workers
are on "the" site to ‘control the *

hazard,” “o 7
. Kirk "pais the WCB had initially.

“be Si in writing dune

If to hire'a professional, engineer
to ensure the slope, separating th
construction site. and the: Mon
jtiverd] homes below is sécure.,

= But the company: maintains ‘ng

j such” order. has been made by the.’

WCH. ples ‘
« Bul: sald Kirk ©

“doing. itd. West:
contracted the engineering feih?

According to. West” ‘Vancouver.

Mayor Don, ‘Lanskailj;

Vancouver consulting geotéchnica

(Brawner,

‘ceds . 200,' people: 10. contribute .

“and LW

has no plans

be: the first a

6 baie viewe :

‘they would be below chan é
‘A: total of: 10 Tew, ‘telev i

News.

rock

il

ure of a

b

According to. Kirk, investigating
wcsB occupational! safety: officer ’
Jim. Balmforth suspended | the,
blaster’s _ certificate; June / tL. But
: the suspension is not specific tothe |
“overall / opezation!. of / Superior. |
Blasting. “An earlier News account | |
crroncously/. stated; the company
had its blasting permit revoked,”

Blasting Ltd. was ne
pélogizes: for any inconve-. |
nience caused to Superior becaisse! ;
of the June, I$ account. .
Preliminary fi ndings of-
vestigation into. the incident by. the
biting : engineer
pointed to.a problem with”
“the siming and sequence 6 of charges al
“detonated at the. te.

_follow-up report to the West. Van-
“eguver director) of «: operations
% Barry: ‘Lambert oA farther
evaluation of, blasting by Superior
Blasting company Suggests that, @
cess explosive wag placed,’ primari-
ly near the botton) of the holes and ;

i each hole, delayed. 13>,

In addition”no attempt to control

the’ direction: ofthe. of

to have been made,"*)..., St / aa

‘The engineering firm ret paced by” -

the district ‘to’ evaluate, the safety “
Land sta bility of. rocks, dlasted in the

determine:

Chick, | _