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JIM Sowden and his dogs found garbage that contained mail from an address in Vancouver, which:
Is suffering through a garbage strike. The garbage was dumped in Inter River Park.

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days, Seaman sees this as an open invi-
tation for thieves to make the trip

across town,

“It’s an easy SeaBus tide across
town to get rid of stolen merchan- ° ,

dise,” he said,

in addition North’ Vancouver
District and City bylaws. governing,
the stores’ conduct ‘call, for ‘a ‘maxi-. ”

_ mum fine of $100, Seaman sees this.
. as grossly inadequate, In Vancouver:

the maximum fine is set at $5,000. ::
Seaman ‘said ‘the RCMP: ‘will be
petitionin both’ North . Vancouver:
municipalities to tighten bylaws gov
erning the stores in the near future.

tified and defined. | “, North Vancouver City Mayor Jac

Loucks said he expects a delegation’
from the RCMP later this month.

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nts are ‘combined to quantify.

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tions! Is the risk judged. to be accept-
ab and Do we need to do anything

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analysis and risk evaluation is usually

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constantly changing,

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Bags of discarded trash upset Inter River hiker

‘By lan Noble

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_ JIM Sowden and his dogs discovered that
the mess from Vancouver’s garbage strike is

spilling over to the North Shore.

On Thursday morning, Sowden’ and his companions
were on their daily walk in the (oter River Park area
when they discovered a few bigs of garbage by the ten-
_ nis courts,

A little digging by Sowden revealed the garbage came
from Vancouver, the scene of a garbage strike that has

; Moved i into its second week:

“It’s very smelly, by.the w. ay, ” he said. “By the tennis
umped out of cars like

garbage bags.”
North Vancouver District natural parklands manager
Kevin Bell said the district has problems with pen and
Vv,
Bue the problem.is no’ worse since t c strike started,
said Bell. ;
“We have t had | any reports 0 of iy it being any, worse

than, normal,” said Bell, “It’s an on-going minor prob
lem,”
Meanwhile, at the Riverside Drive transfer station for
municipal solid waste, better known as garbage, business
is up at least. 30%, said Louie Devent, operations manag-
er tor Westech Services Ltd, Lineups of “dozens and
dozens”, of vehicles are expected on the weekend, he
added.

“Obviously, anything they can do to contro} their
frustration at the line-ups, which we can’t do anything _

about, would be beneficial to. everybody,” said Deventt.”.”

“People do tend to get a little short-tempered ‘given

the heat we are also enduring at’ this point in time,

+ Sitting in lineups for a long period of time .., people, are
getting frustrated.”

On weekdays, said Devent, lines at the transfer station.

are usttally three to five vehicles long. However, lines are”

now closer to 15 vehicles, although the numbers are

» Deveiit predicts that as long ‘as the strike continues
delays at. the 'transfer’statian, which takes coramercial
and residential waste, will continue.

Devent urges residents to take as much garbage. as:

‘. possible at one time to the transfer station so as few trips

‘ as as possible are required.

appear,

dependent © review, w but that j it had
teached the same.conclusion:
@; manufacturing. and _open‘space development
‘Would ‘be acceptable in’ the norih outside plant
undaries;

a comitiercial and low-density residential develop-:

ment could proceed beyond the rail | tine north of
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unrestricted land use would be acceptable beyond
‘pproximat ely 600 to 700 metres north of the rail
ine. °
Bovar's “tisk assessinent notes ‘three recent
improvements to plant safety:

@ reducing plant inventory of liquefied chlorine gas
‘to one 300-tonne. storage tank from three tanks
storing a total of 1,500 tonnes;

@ discontinuin ‘the use of a barge with three, 300-
‘tonne fixed tan for shipping chlorine;

a moving a propané storage “tank toa more remote

“location on the site,

‘Little’s ‘independent: review of Bovar’s: updated
risk assessment was presented by Lisa Bendixen.

Bendixen summed up her review of Bovar's con®
clusions by saying that some of the hazard frequen-
cies may have been underestimated while conse-
quences may have been overestimated.
“faking them together, bringing it into a risk
assessment, that risk estimate is judged to be a rea-
sonable representation of the risk associated with
the chlorine operations at tke Maplewood chlorine
plant,” concluded Bendixen. However, Bendixen’s
Written report also notes that “the area to the west
of the CXY Chemicals plant is ata higher risk level
than might be desired. Several of the 30 or so in

attendance at the hastily called meeting were still -

not convinced that all relevant questions had been
considered.

Dan Ellis, a chemical engineer who in the past
has worked on 1B. C. Gas emergency Pins, noted

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“that there were two types of earthquakes and asked.
whether the duration of shaking had been factored.”
asa risk, Bovar and Little agree that the worst-case.

~ scenario affecting risk assessment would be the rup-

ture of the main 300-tonne chlorine storage tank
from whatever cause, including earthquakes.
According to Bovar “the total frequency of all
such events is estimated to be very low - — in the
order of one occurrence in 16,000 years.”
Commented Ellis: “There’s a fair body of expe
tise out there that this area gets the g grandad of
earthquakes every 400 years, plus or minus 200,
years, and the last one was in 1761.”
Bendixen also confirmed that rail cars on site ,
hold approximately 90 tonnes of chlorine each,“
‘The Little review concludes there are an average ,
of 10 full cars on site every day of the year, or ano
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“At different times the points have,
been made that these pawn shops
could act in. those capacities,”. satd
‘Loucks, adding that council will listen
to the RCMP"s arguments when they:

Lower

Lonsdale’s:

Te a

Electronics and Cash Convertors are

“two stores regularly monitored by the
ROMP. With the help of the store’s

operators, stolen goods are regular!
recovered from both businesses, but:

items aren’t caught.

“itis impossible to estimate | how many

-A Cash Convertors manager who.
did ‘not provide, his name: said. the:

"store cach week sends a list of names
to the'police of all the individuals sell

ing. items’ to “Cash: Convertors. |H

“said the store has a policy of rejecting -

“questionable items is

“individuals and does so ev ry
“We..have enough: stu

m questionable”

day.
that we

don’t need to pull crap like that,” he:

at and say, ‘ya, tt

-said, “Some ‘people you can just loo
right buddy.’ ”

Nevertheless the RCMP confis-
cate ‘goods’ from. the store, on. a.

© ‘monthly basis.
Electronics owner “Part:
a ‘Mihal said his Lower Lonsdale busi

“Tesla

ness'is-also not involved in the trade:

of stolen items.

“You care blowing it. ‘up?

Seaman’ added that

*. Mihal...“There’s: no problem,’ w
don’t have a.problem.”
awn sho;

can also attract criminal elements. *
But. the manager of Captain's
‘Bargain Store, who. gave his -narne;

“only.os Todd, disagreed, saying the

majority of the store’s clients come

from Pest West Vancouver.

Stolen goods: on.

dealers’. shelves

SOME ‘examples of stolen
goods appearing on second-

hand dealers’ “shelves

include: P

a January!°97,, —_ An’ off-duty

Vancouver policeman spots his son’s
ski gloves in Lower Lonsdale’s Cash’
Convertors.” Gloves: are returned

without incident.

@ January ’97,— Victiny of numer-,

‘ous break and ' ‘enters notices several.

items ‘at. Cash ‘Convertors. Items

stich: as movies,

known criminal.

: a walkman_and_.:
"| anpliances were’ sold to store. by a
Items: held by :
‘police“'as evidence pending selicr’s
. om appearance. a

@ June °97 — Owner of a stolen»

camera spots it ar Tesla, Electronics
pawn shop in Tower Lonsdale.
Police called’ in -after store staff“

refused to return camera,

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