A3 - Sunday, July 25, 1982 - North Shore News

DODGING DEBRIS, a
kayaker negotiates a
bend in Seymour River,
where sheets of
corrugated iron, a
bulldozer blade and
other assorted garbage
is strewn on the banks.
Canoeists can only
Speculate how much
more debris is also
under the water, turning
what was once an ideal
beginner’s route into a
treacherous obstacle
course. (Eric Eggertson

photo)

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ee a Sao Sg and games
Red tape plugs river with garba a
ONCE considered among the best training CHRIS LLOYD feels the same. ___ only metal in there now is |
grounds for beginner canoeists and kayakers, by “We will Cooperate with rebar, for their bank
Seymour River is now strewn with twisted metal . anybody doing stabilization project.

. . ar Vice-president of the such ai problem with thinks it would
debris which has transformed it into a dangerous company Gene Mass sayshe anybody cooperating at the bene aye ie for Aerow . and
obstacle course. has become frustratrated Smithrite to be allowed in to

on the river in August when the
_A teenage girl canocist by being ripped to pieces on of authorities he has been “It's not as though you pull i

. water level is low.
tipped over in about a foot of the unseen referred to in his attemptsto this stuff out with your Even so, he wams that
water there recently, put her He says about 20 canoceists get authority to enter the hands, it needs machinery there is no way of avoiding
hand down to herself and the same number of river. ; there. . the chain of red tape.
and tore iton astripof metal kayakers use the river every Among these are federal Federal Fisheries Officer “They have got the op-
hidden beneath the water. It day at this time of year and Fisheries and Oceans, Rick Grinrod gives a very portunity to go through the
almost severed a finger from __ that it's only a matter of time provincial Fish and Wildlife different account, explaining process and make ap- e
her hand, which required 17 before tragedy strikes — Branch, the Water “There is a bit of misum- fications and we will have Seniors
stitches. unless something is done to Management Branch, North derstanding.” ; an on-site meeting for the

A week later, a kayaker clean up the debris. Vancouver District He maintains: “There has cleanup. lebrate
managed to roll out of his Meanwhile, he’s had to municipality and the been a recovery of some of “It's under the actual ce
craft just in time as he saw content himself with posting Squamish Indian Band. the stuff. To recover authority of the Water
an obstacle looming ahead a warning sign at Grantham Mass suspects it wouki equipment from the river Management Board. That PAGE A9
of him. His kayak was bridge, warning river users probably need a dragiine to = bed they were allowed to go branch will send us a referral i sire ees
smashed against a large steel to leave the water at that be taken into the river even in and pull it out right after and we'll decide whether we
girder I-beam pointed out of to discover what ts there. the flood.

point. have fisheries concerns.

the water at an angie like a © When he canocd out to His company and Arrow — Onn the onc hand, he says: _
lance, just south of the the I-beam girder with the were prepared to get “I thmk we would be in But Smithrite and Arrow
Grantham Street bridge. intent of locating a warning

The transformation of the buoy there, he got into
river occurred during the. more trouble even than the
flooding of last Halloween, kayaker who had previously
when floodwaters burst dodged it.
beyond the river banks, “I miscalculated and got
carving a new course trapped under the [-beam
through storage yards of and jumped out as_ the
Smithrite garbage disposal canoe rolled over,” he says.
and Arrow Transfer, “I got clear but the canoe
sweeping commercial sized was crushed.”

Both Smithrite and Arrow
they will give him any
equipment into the river. Pap

Sheds 60 ft. long con- PoP tne tor: thean to chen setection of colours and shapes

Rocky
horror-show
PAGE B12

One of the tires was found penies were very aaxioua to stopped. Elan Paving Stone Company Ltd.
get in -there and retricve We can refer you to many jobs done by us on the
: their property. But they've North Shore
with pieces of ominrite come up against a wall of responsibilitics FREE ESTIMATES
and other debris, that they're sick of cron ot reer ey 253-6868
HIDDEN trying.

It is assumed the vast Smithrite lost

jority of items washed worth more than ,000 in
awey ao beneath the water the flooding.

— wh th Eight months after tho arranged, he adds: “But we e
mot danger te canevsts, flooding, “nobody ‘hat Jet il hip, unt bocanse is draperies
kayakers and others using becn Po clear ag the the thing to do. Vi
cr
tho fiver for recreation pendede clearuptbedeteis Arrow, Tranttcy Vice. by S. Laursen

Whitewater Canocing
Association of B.C., fears it
is only a matter of timo
before someone gets killed

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