Looks like power washing going on today as they continue to move the barge.
I hope DWR gets hit with tariffs – polluting Baynes Sound with ship breaking and then trucks the steel to the US. This is a foreign owned company. Buy Canadian, support Canadian businesses not foreign owned – especially when a convicted felon who targeted seniors is profiting from Deep Water Recovery. JFC surely that’s not too much to ask with the threat to our economy.
Hey Ministry of Environment – these guys are playing you for fools. Look at this muddy, shitty site and tell us there is nothing you can do when it’s obvious no precautions are in place and the filtration system is a complete joke. What’s getting filtered before reaching the marine environment? The water filtration system is just for show since DWR likes to torch apart on soil knowing they can bypass the system and act like they’re complying.
Look how easy it was for DWR to sucker the Ministry to get a reduced fine. Oct. 31/24 – read what Jurisich claimed to have done that got him a reduction in the fines! What can be crossed off the list in the last 4 1/2 months?
- building asphalt berms,
- installing a water treatment system,
- building a French Drain,
- installing an oil/water separator,
- lining Sump 3,
- re-grading the area and removing the waste berm.
Excerpts from Dec. 12/24 letter from the Ministry at bottom of this post. Emphasis added by me on 117, 118 and 119.
116. On October 31, 2024, DWR submitted the most recent version of the Action Plan, in response to the PAO. The Action Plan includes the following items:
17• Sump 1 Catchment Area: “Addition of the asphalt berm and installation of the water treatment system will start immediately, once the system design has been approved for installation.”
• Sump 2 Catchment Area: “French Drain construction, installation of the oil/water separator, and re-grading of the area will start in October with completion by mid November.”
• Sump 3 Catchment Area:
“As of October, DWR has excavated approximately 85% of the berm. …
Once the wood waste berm is completely removed, a four-inch asphalt berm is intended to be placed along the northern perimeter of the existing asphalt surface to ensure only non-effluent’ stormwater from the asphalt catchment area is collected at Sump 3. Currently, Sump 3 is a small pond, heavily overgrown with blackberry bushes and bulrushes preventing easy access. Vegetation around the sump will be removed. The sump will be excavated to clean out vegetation and sedimentation, enlarged, lined and partially filled with rock. Excavated material will be sampled for characterization and disposed of at an authorized landfill facility.
With the removal of the wood waste berm, the water quality is expected to improve. The discharge from Sump 3 will be pumped by submersible pump to the catchment area of Sump 1. Sampling at Sump 3 will continue for 3 Significant Rainfall Events to monitor discharge quality. If the water quality from Sump 3 meets the BCWQG (Aquatic Life – Marine) for TSS, total and dissolved copper, lead, and zinc after these three separate rainfall events, sampling from Sump 3 will be discontinued. Sump 3 will continue to be monitored if the above water quality is not met.”
• Effluent treatment: “A water treatment system is to be commissioned to treat the combined flows from all three catchment areas the culminate at Sump 1 and designed to remove TSS, total metals from the stormwater with the objective of meeting the BCWQG (Aquatic Life – Marine) as required by the PAO.”
117. Since the Notice, I agree that DWR has continued to implement the Action Plan under the PAO including such activities as building asphalt berms, installing a water treatment system, building a French Drain, installing an oil/water separator, lining Sump 3, re-grading the area and removing the waste berm.
118. I am persuaded by DWR that, by making these efforts, it has taken some additional actions to avoid the contraventions from happening again in the future.
119. After considering the relevant information above, I am convinced that a reduction of twenty percent of the base penalty (- $4,000) is appropriate for DWR’s efforts to avoid the contraventions from happening again in the future.
allthingsunionbay 