Properties association joining
fisheries personnel in clean-up

THE BRITISH Properties
Area and Homeowners
Association (BPAHA) has
teamed up with Fisheries
and Oceans Canada to clean
up local creeks.

By A.P. McCredie
News Reporter

Although no creeks or streams
cunning through the British Pro-
perties have been seriously dam-
aged in the pasi, the BPAHA’s
campaign to protect the waterways
will focus on eliminating sources
of pollution and improving access
for migrating fish.

Fisheries technical staff have
checked the two main branches of
Brothers Creek that run east of
Sentinel secondary school and
through the Hollyburn Country
Club and found the physical con-
dition and water quality of the
streams to be fairly goud.

“A few adult coho are return-
ing to spawn in the lower reaches
of Brothers Creek, and there is a
small population of resident trout

- in some of ihe pools,” said fish-
eries community advisor Sam

Gidora.

The main waterway through the
eastern portion of the British
Propertics, Hadden Creek, will be
tested and reviewed in the new
ear. |

The BPAHA is also teaming up
with students from local schools
on a project to identify and mark
storm drains with painted yellow
fish.

The marking program is aimed
at raising awareness that small
discharges — oils and other
automotive products, detergents,

Painting materials, pesticides —
trom thousands of households can
poison many miles of neighbor-
hood streams.

It also helps illustrate that vir-
tually all storm sewers on the
North Shore run into_area creeks
and rivers.

in the past, a number of North
Shore creeks — including Wagg
Creek, MacKay Creek, and
Hastings Creek -—~ have been
seriously damaged by materials
dumped in storm sewers.

According to the Ministry of
Environment, 99% of the North
Shore drains and sewers empty in-
to area creeks and most of those
creeks drain into four major fish
supporting waterways — Lynn
Creek, MacKay Creek, and the
Seymour and Capilano rivers.

The North Shore was one of the
first areas in the province to initi-
ate drain marking.

But according to Kevin Bell,
program director at the Lynn
Canyon Ecology Centre, only
30% of the sewers have been
marked since the program’s in-
troduction in 1988.

“The only organizations that
sill show interest in the marking
program are elementary schools
and Girl Guide groups,”* said Bell.
“Apart from them, we have had
very little interest (from) the
community.

Bell said if you look at a map
detailing the marked drains, the
vast majority are close to elemen-
tary schools.

Bell is scheduled to meet on
Dec. 10 with fisheries officials and
Tepresentatives from the North
Vancouver District parks advisory
committee to discuss a proposed
‘‘adopt-a-creek”’ program.

if the program is approved,

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organizations and individuals will
be able to “tadopt’’ a section of a
North Shore creek to maintain
and monitor,

The Lynn Canyon Ecology
Centre has free drain-marking kits
available.

Friday, December 11, 1992 — North Shore News — 13

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