The mysterious explosions
and tremors that have be
causing concern to residents
and workers in the Lower
Lonsdale area will continue
for the next several months,
according to the company
responsible for them.

Work by Dillingham
Construction is underway on
a $10.2 million project to
construct a drydock mooring
pier in North Vancouver and
it has been the blasung
involved in site preparation
for this project that has been
the cause of concern.

Over the last week several
people have called the
NEWS and the fire depart-
ment to find what has been

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NO SEISMIC ACTIVITY BUT... |
. Van ‘earthquakes’ to continue

causing the noise, and the

earth tremors felt
area.

One group thought that
the area was being hit by
earthquakes and _ they
Phoned the provincial
government in Victoria, who
told them that they had no
record of seismic activity in
the area.

In a_erelease from
Dulingham, R.J. Meyers the
president of the North
Vancouver based company
said that residents near the
project might feel slight
earth tremors “from drilling
and blasting of underlying
glacial tll so it can be ex-
cavated by a_ clamshell

in the

dredge.“

But Meyers said _ that
“shock waves were only a
small percentage of what
would be necessary to cause
damage to the building.”

The company says it has
received provincial and
municipal approval for the
blasting and has engineers
monitoring the effects of the
blasting.

To complete the work,
which is part of a $63 million
drydock facility scheduled
for completion in January
1982, the company said that
they are planning to carry
out blasting in the early
afternoon and evening, five
days a week, for the next

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