8 - Sunday, November 22, 1987 - North Shore News

LAKE ALGAE RESEARCH
V firm awarded $271,000 contract

A WEST VANCOUVER research — and Services Canada. death from oxygen starvation. company that has been in West
company has won a federal gov- The project also has financial SciTech is a small North Shore Vancouver for the past year.
ernment contract worth more than support frons the provincial gov-
$271,000 to study a technique that ernment.
could slow the spread of algae in SciTech president Ron Wiegand

said the federal contract is the first

his company has received. :
“And the nice thing,’’ Wiegand :
said, ‘‘is it is a research con- ZAIN ‘

tract...not for building an object.”

Scheduled for completion at the i C
end of March 1989, the project will . L FA N i Ni G SE NGRELD
involve dredging a hole in Chain 2 : , S

Lake, which is near Princeton, as a -
sediment trap that theoretically 1 * Rock & brick
would also trap the nutrients upon fireplace facings 95
which lake algae feed and flourish. : * Chimney &
The main portion of the project / } firebox repairs
will be to analyse samples of sedi- j h a)
ment, water and other material " V+ Work guaranteed this month only
taken from the lake. i wc \ Ask about our Gutter Cleaning Speciai
Algae can kill a lake and its fish '
by robbing water of oxygen.
Wiegand said the scientific
authority for the project is On- “the Chimney Sweep”
tario’s Dr. Tom Murphy, who ini- :
tiated the concept for the experi- / nd 986-1 040
SCITECH president Ron ment. ‘
Wiegand...‘‘the nice thing is it is a In announcing the contract,
research contract..."" Capilano MP Mary Collins said
_ researchers hope that a_ better
SciTech Consultants Inc. was understanding of SciTech’s tech-
awarded the Environment Canada nique will lead to its use in the res--
contract under the unsolicited toration of other lakes suffering
proposals program for science and from low water clarity, algae
technology managed by Supply blooms, weed growth and fish

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