Newsstand Price 25¢ January 10, 1982

‘COMMU!
MONITORS POLLUTIO

N.Van is
focal point
of concerns

By CHRIS LLOYD

PUBLIC OUTCRY
against the Premier
Street Landfill has
turned North Van-
couver’s Lynn Creek
watershed into the
focal point’ for
pollution concerns.

That outcry threatens the
future of the landfill and
jeopardizes North Van
District's long-term plan to
dump garbage there for the
next 20-25 years. But it has
also led to environmental
concerns in North Van being
policed better than they
have ever been before.

Opposition by neighbours
of the towering landfill is so
acute that the question of
whether the municipality
will be allowed to complete
its overall plan to expand the
dump site and top it off with
playing fields is now in
serious doubt.

EYES MONITOR property valuation figures at North Van assessment would get a tax break by having lower assessments. When they
office to compare values given to houses fronting on to the landfill checked the figures Thursday they found the reverse was true and that
with comparable houses elsewhere. Mayor Don Bell had previously their homes were actually assessed higher than similar ones further
assured these members of the Committee for Opposition to Landfill from the landfill, even though realtors say the opposite is the case with
Dumping, (left to right) Margaret Grocot, Rhoda Clemiss and Myrna market prices.

CONTINUED ON PAGE AB O'Brien that if the dump was lowering the values of thelr homes they (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

Harbor expansion idea brings protests

PLANS FOR the future of the Port of Vancouver stages. and many changes
have North Vancouver District council up in| might be made before the
arms, with one alderman vowing he'll “fight like a final draft comes out in May

” The 216 page preliminary
tiger” if the tentative port master plan goes goo ument suggests cx

through as it stands. panding the port in the
; ; - Maplewood and Seymour
Council members had a By TERRY LAVENDER | arcas by extending the

sneak preview last week of a railway and dredging the
prehminary report) for ou toterpidal arcas

National Harbours Board  polhores including councils Chemical expgrt capacity

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port master plan, and they stand oo harardous would be increased by a
didn’ matenals development of :
' much like Us a ; third while Lynnaterm would SUNDAY
suggestions for District the Seymour arca and the
have its forest products Cleedy with showem
waterfront which include Maplewood Community 1 t y
> > capacily increasoc vy the
a call for increased chemical Plan said) Semor Planner
same amount MONDAY
exports Kai Kreuchen in a report

Offshore areas of Cates

( older, possible snow

The plan may affect Kreuchen stressed that the
several important Distact plan is sail onty in the earty CONTINUED ON PAGE A4