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. . ° NEWS photo Neil Lucente
THREE-YEAR-OLD Carly Leithead pulls the last scary, slimy bits from a freshly
carved Jack-o'-lantern. Thousands of the orange, glowing faces will iight up the
darkness this Halloween night as children and children-at-heart fall under the spell of
spooks and spirits. More pumpkin photos on page 29.

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A SECOND company this year has been fined for polluting

a North Vancouver creek.

Tufcoat Sealcoating Ltd. and
manager Steven Davis were fined
$1,500 Tuesday after pleading
guilty in North Vancouver provin-
cial court to one count of dumping
a deleterious substance into water
freauented by fish.

The company originally faced
four Fisheries Act) and Waste
Management Act) violations that
were laid against it in connection
with an Aug. $2, 1985 chemical
spill into Mackay Creek.

Charges against Tufcoat includ-
ed two counts of dumping effluent
produced by the company’s
business, depositing a deleterious
substance into water frequented by
fish and depositing a deleterious
substance into a storm drain.

Following the guilty plea on the
one charge, the Crown entered a
stay of proceedings on the remain-
ing three charges against the com-
pany.

DECISION PLEASING

Ministry of Environment
spokesman Bill Havleding said
Thursday the ministry was pleased
with the fine.

“d's obvious (from the fing) the
iadve treats this type of offenee
sv tously, We are constandy trving
is cet across to everybody to think
tace before they dump things
down storm drains."*

He added that, unlike storm
drains ino some Lower Mainland
municip...ties. North Shore storm
drains do not go through any

News Reporter

treatment facilities and instead run
straight into area creeks.

Ministry officials were alerted to
the spill by a North Vancouver res-
ident who reported seeing dead
fish in MacKay Creek and an oily
black substance in creek waters.

FISH KILLED

After the original charges were
laid against Tufcoat in June,
Ministry of Environment conserva-
tion officer Doug Adolph suid a
number of crayfish and cutthroat
trout were killed as a result of the
spill.

According to ministry officials,
the substance dumped into the
creek contained various hydrocar-
bons and appeared to be Jet-Seal,
a tar-like material used in sealing
driveway blacktop.

The material was dumped down
a storm sewer in the S200-block
Cliffridge Avenue.

Tufcout, a driveway sealing
operation that employed students,
went out of business in mid- 1985,

On June 4.) Epsilon Building
Materials Lid. of North Vancouver
was found guilty of discharging a
resin used in the manufacture of
drywall into Lynn Creek.

Charges were laid against the
company as a result cf Ministry of
Environment investigations,

The company was fined $3,000,