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THE HAND.-OFF is made from mountain biker Keith Whitaker to runner Graham Fell at Ambleside beach during the fourth annual Avia Ski to Seal
Race on Saturday. Forty teams skied, movotain biked, kayaked, ran, cycled, canoed and windsurfed on a course which began at the top of Grousel

Mountain and finished at Jericho Beach. The course took approximately three hours to compete.

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CONSULTANTS hired to investigate water pollution ina
Deep Cove told North Vancouver District Council Monday
that (he two main sources of the recurring pollution is from
the urban ruagtf of creeks and from boaters discharging

their waste.

Dayton and SNnight and hVS
Consultants couchided that. the
high coliform counts, which fast
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Contributing Writer

urban runoff from the myriad of
creeks which flaw into Deep Cove,

with the primary source of pollu.
tion im othe creeks attributed to
contamination from dogs and
other animals; and
* from boats with on-board
sanitary facilities using the gav-
ernment wharf, and casual an-
chorages close to Panoramit Beach
and the Yacht Club.
Unfortunately, Peter Nix of VS
could not say what a ‘typical’
level oof pollution from creek

runoff might be. and pointed ta a
test site above urban areas on Cove
Creek that showed pollution values
at the same level found at the
stream mouth,

The pollution problems in) the
Cove appear to be compounded by
un accumulation of contaminated
bottom sediment: in certain areas
and the very poor tidal flushing
action which exists in the inner
teaches of the Cove.

Drogue testing showed that sur-
face tidal waters move toward
Panoraras ’ hoon both ebb and
flow tides, without enough
force to cause much scouring ac-
tion by bottom waters cunning in
the opposite direction.

“DT think itis clear that no matter
what the source (of pollution) is,
whether it’s land based or water

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