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July 12, 1985

News 985-2133 = Classified 986-6222

Circulation 986-1337

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60 pages 25¢

TV WATCHING will be a lot simpler starting

today.

Today is the birthday of
TV News, a full TV and
entertainment package Jaun-
ched by the North Shore
News.

And its inside this issue,
free to all North Shore News
readers. TV News offers two
full weeks of TV listings and
movies in a convenient and
easy to read format.

In today’s issue, columnist
Doug Collins reminisces
about an earlier experience
with TV when he did a
feature on the Cuban revo-
lution in 1961. The revolu-
tion doesn't figure too pro-
minently, but a bar thief,
‘Pedro’ does as Doug
describes day one of assign-
ment Havana.

Heavy metal
concentrates

LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF a chemical that

poured

into North Vancouver’s Lynn Creek

Tuesday has revealed the substance to be a highly
acidic toxic soup loaded with concentrates of

heavy metals.

Rick Hawes, an en-
vironmenta! safety officer
for the Ministry of En-
vironment, says fish  in-
troduced into samples of the
chemical, which had an ex-
tremely acidic pH reading of
1.7, died in Jess than 10
minutes. Fish introduced in-
to the same substance with
its acid neutralized died
within 70 minutes.

Hawes says preliminary
Jab analysis revealed heavy
concentrations of copper,
iron, chromium, aluminum,
and phosphorus in samples
taken from the creek. Both
acid and metal content of
the chemical were equally
toxic to the test fish, accor-
ding to Hawes.

Fisheries and Wiidlife per-
sonnel stumbled onto the spill
by accident when, in the
midst. of moving salmon
from a section of the tiver
being worked on by District
of North Vancouver crews,
they discovered the chemical
flushing directly into the
creek from a 21-inch storm
sewer ourlet.

Otto Langer, Head of
Habitat Management for the
Fraser River, says Ministry
of Environment investiga-
tions into the spill have been
unable to ascertain how

TV News also describes
day one of a different
journey of discovery. This
one took lan and Sally
Wilson to northern B.C.
where they fived alone and
self-sufficient through the
changing seasons. A series of
articles will describe their
Northern adventure.

Inside the TV supplement
you'll also find highlights of
TV sports, whats new on the
soaps as well as complete

much of the chemical was
dumped into the river: ‘But
it looks quite nasty. The
chemical could have been
flowing into the river for a
few days or a few years,
there’s no way we can tell
right now.”’

Director of Engineering
for the District of North
Vancouver, John Bremner,
says ‘‘the feeling we have
now is that the spill is a rela-
tively small one. Flow was
approximately 10 gallons per
minute.”’ He agreed with
Langer, however, in saying
that it was very difficult to
estimate exactly how long
the chemical had been
discharging into the creek.

District crews have since
blocked all chemical flow
from the pipe and flushed
out the line into a septic tank
truck,

Fisheries workers found
fish in river waters above the
spill but found no fish below
the spill for 300 feet.

Ken Fraser, Coordinator
of Environmental Enforce-
ment for the Ministry of
Environment, says source of
the spill has been narrowed
down to an area between
two points along Charlotte
Road in North Vancouver
where a variety of industrial
businesses are located.

See Chemical
Page 5

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located on or near the same
page as the day’s programs.

We're very interested in
what our readers have to say
about TV News. An in-
dependent survey will be
taken, more detailed than
our regular surveys, polling
readers to find out what they
want in a TV section.

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directly from readers as to
things in the TV News.