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For earlier materials see Table of Contents

June 18th

We See

 

New steps at Rotary Park --- perhaps better to pick the salmon berries?

  Innlander railing concrete poured and setting up --- nice work and much safer now --- see earlier for safety

 

I will return to this theme later – but the Seafest parade highlighted one of Rupert’s finest features – how diversity of peoples live here and interact in true Canadian Mosaic fashion --- and secondly the parade emphasized not only youth but elders – see my June 13th Seafest parade preliminary account

 

Speaking of Youth

Summer time seems to again mean a period of broken windows – presumably by kids hanging around downtown late at night

See my last year page on vandalism down town with links at bottom of its page to previous

 

 

 

Triple Island Dump Site

I was told that the Port’s phase 1 material was dumped out here and subsequently tested to confirm no significant changes in the monitored parameters caused by the dredged material (as below)

 

Arrow shows disposal site --- note fish offal etc might never reach the bottom if ground fine etc as would be carried by current onto fish habitat etc

 

Background:

The centre point of this disposal site is 54º18.50'N; 130º45.50'W (NAD83) with a 1 nautical mile radius at a depth of 180 metres.

The Brown Passage Disposal Site was established by the Federal Department of Transport in 1946 for the disposal of ammunition and scrap metal. In the 1950’s it was used for disposal of fish offal from processing plants in the area. The site was last monitored in 2007.

Since 1982, Brown Passage has received 297 691 cubic metres of dredged material.

Impact Hypothesis:

1. Disposal of dredged material did not increase trace contaminant levels in the sediments at designated sites above background level.

2. The disposed dredged material does not cause biological responses in sensitive marine organisms as determined by toxicity testing.

Files sent to me by Env Canada for the Brown Passage Disposal site --- note it is the only site north of Vancouver Island

 

 

Awful Offal

See my previous on local canneries wishing to dump fish offal out at Triple

 

 

 

 

 

Created by LG on 18/6/2009

Last updated on Thursday, June 18, 2009