A3 - Wednesday, January 30, 1985 - North Shore News

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WEATHER:

Cloudy, becoming sunny this afternoon. Mainly sunny Thursday but cool.

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Miss Manners tockles the delicate question of marital boycotts.

SPORTS: B&

Gymnastics in photos, news on the Blues and the rest of the sports.

AUTOMOTIVE: BI Our automofive expert says the only constant with cars is change.

ON THE WATER Study clears way to

clean up oil spi

T H EE N - VIRONMENTAL Pro- tection Service of En- _vironment. Canada has released a new manual designed to help in the cleanup of oi! spills in the Port of Vancouver.

‘By JOANNE MucDONALD

Research officer Fred Beech says the Shoreline Protection’ and -Clean-up Manual originally evel'cd from concerns of the: Coast Guard and the provincial government about oil Spills on the West Coast. He said the West Coast Counter Measure study, conducted in 1979-80, listed risk factors, available cleanup equipment and counter emergency measures.

Beech said year two of the

same, study, from 1980-81; saw concerned people gather for a workshop which simu- lated an oil spill, with discussion centering on ef- fective emergency pro- cedures. _ “From that, we felt that in a real situation all the necessary information should be condensed into one publication,’’ says Beech, adding approximately 100 oil spills and slicks occur annually in the Port of Van- couver. . .

Input on the manual was provided by representatives from Environment Canada, the Department of Fisheries, the Canadian Wildlife Ser- vice, the Ministry of the En- vironment and the Port of Vancouver.

The manual — cited as the first comprehensive docu- ment done fer spills in the Port of Vancouver — lists the resources of the Port, where types of biological resources (fish, wildlife and flora) exist, where the high priority Port locations are, what spill response efforts should be undertaken depending on the area hit, access routes into the af- fected areas, as well as pro-

Alberta crude oil — at a West Vancouver waterfront site.

tection and clean-up pro- cedures to be undertaken depending on the type of shoreline affected.

The area covered in the manual consists of 200 kilometres of coastline, stretching from the U.S. border north to Point Atkinson, plus the waters of Boundary Bay and the ap- proaches to the Fraser River and Burrard Inlet.

On the North Shore, the study has identified the Capilano River, Caulfield Cove, Lynn Creek, the Seymour River-Maplewood Mud Flais and Estuary and the Indian River as high pri- ority areas according to

potential human and or bio- logical disturbance. .

Deep Cove has been slate as oan area of seasonal primary concern, while San- dy Cove, West Bay, Dun- darave and Ambleside, along with the McKay Creek- Mosquito Creek Estuaries have been deemed of sec- ondary concern in the event of an oil spill.

Mention is also made of “sacrificial beaches’ where vil would be diverted should a spill or slick threaten a shoreline. Such beaches are considered to be of low ecological value and are composed of easily cleaned materials.

Says the report: ‘‘General- ly, fine grained sandy beaches are preferable as they can be cleaned more ef- fectively than coarse grained beaches or rock faces and are more easily replaced with similar sediments.” The report adds Dundarave Beach in West Vancouver is a prime site for a sacrificial beach ‘*because of accessi- bility, location and sediment type."’

Beech says the cost of cleaning up spills varies ‘‘ac- cording to how much you want to spend on them,’’ but says the basic philosophy has been that the polluter pays. He adds, however, the Port

NEWS photo lan Smith

FRED BEECH brings together the elements a new report is designed to keep apart — the protective feather of a gull and

of Vancouver has paid for clean-up in some cases in hopes of recovering the cost ata later date.

“We know basically the transporters of off in the Port, but we don’t know how to predict on a micro- level, where the oil will go. But we can tell on a macro- scale where the of! will go, how long it will take to get there, and what the winds and tides will be in) that specific area,’ says Beech. “One thing we can be fairly sure of is that oil’s never go- ing to hit the whole port at once. Ko will be a specific area and we will be able to deal with that."'

ALD. JOAN GADSBY +. Wants answers

Ald.

wants food change probed

NORTH VAN- COUVER District Council has voted to ask medical health of- ficer Dr. W.E. Mac- Bean of the North Shore Union Board of Health (NSUBH) for a complete chronology of events which led to changes in local bulk food regulations.

| By JOANNE MacDONALD |

The motion was introduc- ed by Ald. Joan Gadsby who said she was concerned over a January 25 newspaper ar- ticle which dealt with changes in the North Shore regulations.

The article contained sug- gestions from some North Shore grocery store opera- tors that Jim Pattison, owner of the recently opened Save-On-Foods on Marine Drive, had received prefer- ential treatment from authorities in Victoria in having previously stringent regulations on bulk foods relaxed.

The article also said some operators fear a food price war will result from the opening of the Save-On- Foods complex.

In an interview with the North Shore News, Mac- Bean said Overwaitea, which

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