A2-Sunday News, May 18, 1980

Lawyers keeping eye on Lonsdale blasting

FROM PAGE A1

daily work program.
Dillingham met with

North Van City Council last

week, following a letter from

lawyers representing the
Talisman Towers Strata
Corporation warning that

remedial action and com-
pensation might be sought.
The contractors agreed to
bring forward the time of
their latest blasting by an
hour to 9 p.m. and to explore
methods of lessening the
shockwaves from the blasts
experienced by neighbors.
Talisman residents are
among a steady stream of
neighbors who have com-
plained to Dillingham, the

City and the North Shore
News about the effects of the
blasts which occur twice
daily Monday to Friday.

DISRUPTION

Thew concerns are over
the disruption of their
lifestyles because of the
noise, the tremors that shake
their homes and the resulting
nsks of structural damage.

West Vancouver lawyers

Johnson McCrae and
Company, representing
Talisman, had asked that

blasting should cease at 8
p.m., although strata
manager John Woolcock
later told the News he felt
the 9 p.m. time agreed was a
reasonable compromise.

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PREPARING ANOTHER BLAST in excavation work for a new drydock facility in

He said of the strata
corporation's reason for
retaining lawyers: “They just
wanted to make everyone
aware that if any damage did
occur we already have a
lawyer guiding us along and
are well aware and quite
serious about the matter.”

Both the City and
Ditlingham are replying to
the lawyers with details of
the modifications
Dillingham has agreed to.

Manager of Dillingham's
marine division Hugh

Tucker told the News the
action of bringing forward
the final blast of the day will
involve paying workers extra
for working in prime time.
He also said the company
has been expenmenting with

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North Vancouver, this worker (left) on a Dillingham Corporation drilling rig holds a
charge which will blast glacial till so it can be excavated by a clamshell dredge. (Terry

Peters photo)

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different time delays bet-
ween detonators to try lo
lessen the intensity of the
effect the blasts have upon

neighbors, although he
added that there is a
minimum shock wave
required merely for the
blasting to be effective.

Tucker added that the

inshore blasting is in its final
slages and tremors should
lessen as work progresses.
“We're trying to get the
worst of it over first,” he
said.

Neighbors will have a
break from the _ blasting
during the whole of June and
the first half of July, on the
orders of government
fisheries officers concerned
about spawning.

After that the work will
resume, probably until the
end of the year.

Though everyone
acknowledges that the
blasting is disruplve to

neighbors who feel the
tremors twice daily, Tucker
says it is unavoidable in
order to carry out the $10.2
million preparation § for
arrival of the drydock being
constructed tn Japan.

THE ONLY WAY

He says of the necessity
for the blasting: “It 1s the
only way we or any other
contractor could have
tendered on the work.

“There is a job to be done
and we tendered under
compeuuon and are trying
to be as reasonable as we
can. We have a schedule to
maintain but at the same
time are not going to be
irresponsible citizens.”

Mayor Jack Loucks tends
{Oo agree. His primary
concern is to ensure that no
neighboring buildings are
put in jeopardy by the work
and feels the inconvenience
experienced by people living
nearby is a fact of life dunng

such a project.

Meanwhile, he says,
Dillingham is taking con-
Siant seismic readings and
assures the council that the
shock levels of the blasts are
not sufficient to damage any
buildings.

He points out that the
company was required to
take out insurance for the
work and = suggests that
anyone feeling they have
suffered damage from the
blasts should

contact
Dillingham.

Loucks says of the
company’s work: “I think

they have made an effort but
we are keeping a watch on it
and checking it out.

“We hope the steps that
have been taken will relieve

the concerns of some

people,” he says, although
he acknowledges: “But we
know many people will not
be happy until the blasting
stops.”

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