fo.
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But two days before the.

to begin, Environment.
Minister Stephen Rogers was
wondering whether
municipalities would get
sympathetic responses to
requests for aid, indicating
that they must bear their
share of liability.

West, Vancouver Mayor
Derrick Humphreys this

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WEDNESDAY
Sanny and warm.

THURSDAY
Clouding over.

aching

Caren

meeting was even scheduled

DISASTER scene of garbage strewn along banks of Lynn Creek war~ bank from the area this father and son are pictured walking towards.
the swollen waters ripped away a section of the landfill (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

Garbage bursts into Lynn Creek

nightmare
comes frue

 ereated when

Ever

andfill

y Door

THE WORST FEARS
of neighbors § and
environmentalists ma-
terialized Saturday
when the = flood-
swollen waters of
Lynn Creek diverted
and tore away a
corner of the Premier
Street Landfill,
spewing years of
accumulated garbage
into the creek.

By CHRIS LLOYD
and TERRY LAVENDER

Torrential rains brought
a flood of water, together
with rocks and uprooted
trees, crashing into” the
steep bank of the landfill,
built up from) years of
garbage packed down by
layers of soil

Cost of the damage 1s
still unknown, North
Vancopver Distinct Mayor

Don Bell told
Monday night.

council

The Distnct will have to
continue using the old
mound. even though Bell
admits it is too high at 150
feet, until another soluton
ts found

However he promised
that the Distnct engineer
would prepare an cstimate
of the cost of movin, some
of the ecxmsong garbage
mound to a acw locaton

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