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A SECOND company in as many months is in court facing
charges of polluting a North Vancouver creek.

Appearing in North Vancouver
provincial court Monday, Tufcoat
Sealcoating Lid."s manager Steven
Davis entered no plea on four
charges laid against his Vancouver
company in connection with B.C.
Ministry of Environment in-
vestigations into an Aug. 12, 1985
spill into MacKay Creek.

Tufcoat and Davis are jointly
charged with dumping effluent
produced by the company's
business, dumping effluent into
MacKay Creek, depositing a
deleterious substance into water
frequented by fish, and depositing
a deleterious substance into a
storm drain.

By TIMOTHY RE AW
News Report

Davis said Monday chat Tuf-
coat, @ driveway sealing operation
employing students, went out of
business in mid- 1985.

“It's such a small thing, I’m
surprised they are bothering with
it,” he said. Davis is currently un-
employed.

DEAD FISH

Ministry of Environment
spokesman Bill Hazledine suid
Monday the ministry was alerted

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1o the spill by a North Vancouver
resident who reported seeing dead
fish in the creek and an oily black
substance in creek waters,

The report came one month
after Ministry of Environment
conservation officer Doug Adolph,
folowing up on another tip from
concerned residents, witnessed the
deliberate dumping of toxic c 1em-
icals into Lynn Creek.

On June 4, Epsilon Building
Materials Lid. of North Vancouver
was found guilty of discharging a
resin used in drywall construction
into the creek.

The company was fined $3,000.

Tufcoat has been charged under
section 33 (2) of the Fisheries Act.
Maximum find for those found
guilty under the section is $50,000,

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Adoipn said Monday a number
of cravfish and cutthroat trout
were hilled as a result of the Aug.
12 spill.

TAR-LIKE SPILL

The substance spilled, Hazledine
said, contained various hydrocar-
bons and appeared to be Jet-Seal,
a tar-like material used in sealing
driveway blacktop.

The material is alleged to have
deen dumped down a storm sewer
in the 5200-block Cliffridge
Avenue.

“One of the constant problems
we face in the Lower Mainland
area,’’ Hazledine said, ‘‘is with
companies and private citizens
dumping things down drains

without Knowing where those
drains lead. And a lot of those
drains lead directly into area
creeks."’

Haziedine said that though
smaller creeks such as MacKay are
no mere than a trickle at various
times of the year, and appear to
have no ability to support fish or
any other marine animals, they are
an important part of the area’s
overall salmon habitat.

“If we expect to continue having
wildlife and fish in this environ-
ment, people are going to have to
think a little more about what they
are doing when it comes to the en-

vironment.”’
court

Davis’ next appearance

will be July 14,

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