A3 - Wednesday, January 30, 1985 - North Shore News

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WEATHER:

Cloudy, becoming sunny
this afternoon. Mainly
sunny Thursday but cool.

ETIQUETTE: A118

Miss Manners tockles the
delicate question of marital
boycotts.

SPORTS: B&

Gymnastics in photos, news
on the Blues and the rest of
the sports.

AUTOMOTIVE: BI
Our automofive expert says
the only constant with cars
is change.

ON THE WATER
Study clears way to

clean up oil spi

T H EE N -
VIRONMENTAL Pro-
tection Service of En-
_vironment. Canada has
released a new manual
designed to help in the
cleanup of oi! spills in
the Port of Vancouver.

‘By JOANNE MucDONALD

Research officer Fred
Beech says the Shoreline
Protection’ and -Clean-up
Manual originally evel'cd
from concerns of the: Coast
Guard and the provincial
government about oil Spills
on the West Coast. He said
the West Coast Counter
Measure study, conducted in
1979-80, listed risk factors,
available cleanup equipment
and counter emergency
measures.

Beech said year two of the

same, study, from 1980-81;
saw concerned people gather
for a workshop which simu-
lated an oil spill, with
discussion centering on ef-
fective emergency pro-
cedures.
_ “From that, we felt that
in a real situation all the
necessary information
should be condensed into
one publication,’’ says
Beech, adding approximately
100 oil spills and slicks occur
annually in the Port of Van-
couver. . .

Input on the manual was
provided by representatives
from Environment Canada,
the Department of Fisheries,
the Canadian Wildlife Ser-
vice, the Ministry of the En-
vironment and the Port of
Vancouver.

The manual — cited as the
first comprehensive docu-
ment done fer spills in the
Port of Vancouver — lists
the resources of the Port,
where types of biological
resources (fish, wildlife and
flora) exist, where the high
priority Port locations are,
what spill response efforts
should be undertaken
depending on the area hit,
access routes into the af-
fected areas, as well as pro-

Alberta crude oil — at a West Vancouver waterfront site.

tection and clean-up pro-
cedures to be undertaken
depending on the type of
shoreline affected.

The area covered in the
manual consists of 200
kilometres of coastline,
stretching from the U.S.
border north to Point
Atkinson, plus the waters of
Boundary Bay and the ap-
proaches to the Fraser River
and Burrard Inlet.

On the North Shore, the
study has identified the
Capilano River, Caulfield
Cove, Lynn Creek, the
Seymour River-Maplewood
Mud Flais and Estuary and
the Indian River as high pri-
ority areas according to

potential human and or bio-
logical disturbance. .

Deep Cove has been slate
as oan area of seasonal
primary concern, while San-
dy Cove, West Bay, Dun-
darave and Ambleside, along
with the McKay Creek-
Mosquito Creek Estuaries
have been deemed of sec-
ondary concern in the event
of an oil spill.

Mention is also made of
“sacrificial beaches’ where
vil would be diverted should
a spill or slick threaten a
shoreline. Such beaches are
considered to be of low
ecological value and are
composed of easily cleaned
materials.

Says the report: ‘‘General-
ly, fine grained sandy
beaches are preferable as
they can be cleaned more ef-
fectively than coarse grained
beaches or rock faces and
are more easily replaced with
similar sediments.” The
report adds Dundarave
Beach in West Vancouver is
a prime site for a sacrificial
beach ‘*because of accessi-
bility, location and sediment
type."’

Beech says the cost of
cleaning up spills varies ‘‘ac-
cording to how much you
want to spend on them,’’ but
says the basic philosophy has
been that the polluter pays.
He adds, however, the Port

NEWS photo lan Smith

FRED BEECH brings together the elements a new report is designed to keep apart — the protective feather of a gull and

of Vancouver has paid for
clean-up in some cases in
hopes of recovering the cost
ata later date.

“We know basically the
transporters of off in the
Port, but we don’t know
how to predict on a micro-
level, where the oil will go.
But we can tell on a macro-
scale where the of! will go,
how long it will take to get
there, and what the winds
and tides will be in) that
specific area,’ says Beech.
“One thing we can be fairly
sure of is that oil’s never go-
ing to hit the whole port at
once. Ko will be a specific
area and we will be able to
deal with that."'

ALD. JOAN GADSBY
+. Wants answers

Ald.

wants
food
change
probed

NORTH VAN-
COUVER District
Council has voted to
ask medical health of-
ficer Dr. W.E. Mac-
Bean of the North
Shore Union Board of
Health (NSUBH) for a
complete chronology of
events which led to
changes in local bulk
food regulations.

| By JOANNE MacDONALD |

The motion was introduc-
ed by Ald. Joan Gadsby who
said she was concerned over
a January 25 newspaper ar-
ticle which dealt with
changes in the North Shore
regulations.

The article contained sug-
gestions from some North
Shore grocery store opera-
tors that Jim Pattison,
owner of the recently opened
Save-On-Foods on Marine
Drive, had received prefer-
ential treatment from
authorities in Victoria in
having previously stringent
regulations on bulk foods
relaxed.

The article also said some
operators fear a food price
war will result from the
opening of the Save-On-
Foods complex.

In an interview with the
North Shore News, Mac-
Bean said Overwaitea, which

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