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Sept. 3...

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» Friday, Novernber 20, 1998 -

‘Heating tanks suspected : source

. Robert Galster i

News Keporter
“pobert@nsiens COM
SOME GNEiAs s stinking u
- North Vancouver's
‘Blueridge neighborhood:

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N diesel tucl: Bke smell in
stfongest around: Blueridge Creck
ashich brought out. Dale Hint, ’ ‘5
~ federal fisheries officer. :

eh harder than hell to digare
out where ity coming trom.” he
sad: Lage Wednesday aiter collecting

“sample from the creek.

The “tests later confirmed the
‘presence ‘ot diesel, but becatise
there are no commercial dic sel users
~in the area, Hime cthinks sthe sub:
“stance is heating oil, likely seeping
frum abandoned underground
home heating tanks:

ST's (B jueridge) all cesidential.
“Theres Jno industrial (1isers).
There's a Chevron: (gas station on

the corner of Seymour Parkway and
Lytton Street) burt they dons have

diesel,” said Haunt. “1's ntastihe ‘an’
1 in the-area. We can’r figs.

‘are ont who has Kota ‘backyard | .

with a big fuel tank.” nod
id the likeliest source of
spill isin the! 2600- o3700-
block of Bendale lace, just nerth
of Seemour Parkway. But he had no
‘duck in pinpointing the’exact loca
“tions |
Al hough / federal and. district
cialy. started , investigating the

: pill last Wednesday, sume residents
say it Has heen fingering if the area

“for more than a month.:

“inithe: smelly kind of was there

and then kind. of faded away and |=
figtired ‘somebody, had dumped.
2 something there and it went aw: ay
said Andrew: Vander Helm, a d

Ironoe ntal protection, ASSIS-+

tant who wWas'at the site again along’
owith Hunt. i

Hunt said the Bhictidge Crevk
© spillsis not havir xe immediate |
effects ofits fish population nor on
that} of? MeCartney! Creek, - which

ymeets up with Blueridge Creek

“Dollartan High: MG the s

right now, * ;
“trout and pos

call. Blueridge *

Creek Chomes while: McCarthes

Creek ia popular among hunt.
salmoe,

: However, anincreasedvthe sub:
ALINCE's CANE, nlzation’ could + ence

hy change that. ; :

find offen forge oy
heating. aH tanks m not acw. Phe
naniks. yehuse Capicities ninge trom
3151636 ‘gallons, were inst.
around: the Lower Mainiiisd irom
1945 to 1968 during the postwar,
housing boom when ‘oi was the pris.
“mary home heating fuel and under?
ground tank installation was buat,

cheap and cacy, Most honies have

switched te natural gay since

— “Owners: could have had - the”:
nozzle (fill piper chapped, covered
with Jdirr and: grass and sul the
house,” said Hunt.

Atthough no one knows exactly"

how many of the tanks ren
buried on North Shore’ proper
North -Vancouver » District
Department Chief Brian, Stegavig
said 6,829 district properties had an.
underground tank installed. “All-oF
those. property owners: were sent
questionnaire asking whether theirs
properties: still’ had the, tanks: but,
3354 Of those failed to respond:

“Starting in the summer of" 97,
the district's fire department hired &
student. ‘o send out secuiid notices :
ta) the’ unresponsive: “6 ;
Stegavig said. a timber “of: those
have since replicd but. isn revert. sures:
- how many remain outstanding. :

“I don't know how We're going”
to do it next year. It 5 getting to be
a slaw process,” aid Stegavig
adding future checks will hay Sto be:
conducted ata -house By house
basis .
2 *Thev rey ani sue,
theyre, an environmental problem:
vbur the number! of tanks we've
found ‘in’ the last year or two, has
“heen a lot less thai the past." ‘

St egavig' estimated the cost of;
“removing a buried fiiel: tank..can
cost sanywhere from “$200. te
$1,500." : :
“The. maximuny tite span’ ‘of the