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RETIRED schoolteacher Kathleen
Kermode bas appealed to the Fed-
eral Department of Fisheries, the
provincial Ministry of Lands and
the Greater Vancouver Regional
District in a frustrated effort to get
action for the damage that was
done at her Sunset Beach property
in April.

By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Writer

The peace of Kermode’s home
of 18 years, which is just outside
of the municipality of West Van-
couver, was disrupted in April
when -her .new neighbor, Thomas
Hamilton, scraped up rocks from
her beach to shore up his property

_ and provide a foundation for a
boat ramp which she claims en-
croaches on her bank.

“‘“Now there’s nothing to stop
the tide from coming up further
onto my property,’’ Kermode told

the News, after her many attempis |

to get help from government of-
ficials.

Kermode said Hamilton, at the
time of construction, did not reply
when she asked if he had a permit
for the ramp, and he continued to
build it after a Fisheries repre-
sentative came by and warned him
to stop the work.

Kermode also consulted Larry
Sorken of the Ministry of Crown
Lands and Heather Stalberg of
Federal Fisheries Department, who
initially said that Hamilton would
be asked to dismantle the ramp.

That changed, Kermode said,
after Hamilton visited Kevin Con-
lin, head of the water use section
of Habitat Management (Fraser
River Division) at the Department
of Fisheries.

“We investigated the situation
and determined that while the
work constituted a bit of a wrong,

it was not actually an offence °

against fisheries. In fact, the ramp
provides a bit of a reef, which is
good for. fish,”’ Conlin told the

lews.
.Conlin said he is unhappy, how-

ever, with the way Hamilton went

about his project — doing the
work on April 15 and 16, and then
applying for a permit on May 29.
According to Conlin, Hamilton
said he was unawe:e a permit was
required, and was doing the
beachwork because he was con-
cerned his property was in jeopar-
dy.
“We do not object to people
stabilizing their land,” Conlin

id.

He added that Fisheries will be
requiring Hamilton to do sone
coiopensating work, which should
include replacing some of the rocks
which had been scraped up from
the beach.

“That will also be better for the
fish,’ Conlin said.

Kermode consulted the GVRD
and was informed by planning
consultant James Gilmour that the
district has no regulations in force
“below the high water mark.”

But Kermode is not only con-
cerned about the erosion that
could occur to her property as a
result of the removal of the rocks,
but also that Hamilton removed
rocks that formed stairs and wood
that formed a ramp for her to get a
small boat down to the beach.

Hamilton also covered her
pathway to the beach with rocks,
she says.

“Mr. Hamilton can keep his
bank (fortified with boulders) and
his wave dampeners, but his ramp
will undermine my bank and pre-
vent me from having free access to
a public beach,’ said Kermode,
who at 72 finds herself unable to
scramble over the structure.

According to Sorken at Crown

‘Lands, there is no encroachment

on Kermode’s property, other than
the rocks below the high water
mark.

Hamilton will probably be
issued the foreshore lease he re-
quires to finish the boat ramp, as
long as the steel ramp stays within
one foot of the boundary line be-
teen the two yards, Sorken said.

Local MLA John Reynolds is
currently investigating the matter,

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