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UP TO 100 vallons (455 litres) of home heating oib flood-
ed into West Vancouver's Vinson Creek on Wednesday,

April 2b.

The oil ended up in the fish.
bearing creek after two individuals
were invelved in the removal of
an above-ground oi} storage tank
at H8t Palmerston Ave.

The oil originally went into a
ditch near the home and travelled
to a storm dram at PS5th Street
and Palmerston Avenue. It subse-
quently ended up) in Vinson
Creek, which supports popwations
of trout.

Residents diving as far away us
Gordon Avenue. aine blocks
south of the spill, reported smell-
ing a stcong oil odor.

The spill was reported at 3240
nan,

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ON THURSDAY afternoon a grey Oldsmobile left the Upper Levels Highway while heading eastbound at
the curve before the bridge over the Capilano River. It landed on the other side of the concrete divider
and had to be lifted out. No one was injured in the accident.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

West Vancouver District sewer
supervisor Darey Dragonetti was
one of two public works staff who
began cleaning up the spill) five
niinutes after it was reported.

The spill cleanup took
four hours.

SNo matter how saon sou are
tive, the damage hax been dane."
said Deritgonetti,

“Fortunately, in this case, we
taunaged to locete the source, and
we were able to do our best to
contain it.”

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Fire
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The West
Department abo
cleanup.

Epvironment Canada was catled
to the seene and is investigating
the incident.

Dragonett: said floating otf nets
(absorbent: boons) were used ta
conttin the floating oil at three
locations in the creek.

“Comparatively speaking, it
was relatively serious as far as
volume of off dumped into the
creeks ... here in West Vancouver.
trois one of the three occasions,
that | reeall, of this magnitude in
the seven years that P have worked
here" said Dravonetti.

The ets wilh be inspected on
Monday.

To press time Friday, Draronet-
ui said no dead fish had heen

Vancouver
assisted in

heating fuel flows into trout stream from storage tank

found.

But he added that: the creek
definitely suffered environmental
damage as a result of the off spili,

The two individuals involved in
the incident are Asian and do not
speak English,

fnvestigators were attempting to
identify the pair at press time on
Friday.

The two could face charges
under the Federal Fisheries Act
and the provincial Waste
Management Act.

West) Vancouver District will
also try to recover the cleanup
costs, Which could hit $10,000.

Envirenment Canada said
creeks such as Vinson are usually
used in school salmoiid projects.

Virtually all North Shore storm
drains empry into area creeks.

APPROX. 100 GALLONS
(454 LITRES)

OF HOME HEATING OIL
WAS SPILLED

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

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