‘Wednesday, June 13, 1979 THE RE VIE WwW Shellfish Harvesting Closure P roblems_ ; By LAURIE BRINKLOW Dr. Allen... Arneil, health officer for the capital region, isn’t happy about . . direct sewage outfalls to the sea that contribute to shellfish contamination’ in . Saanich Inlet, but he can’t really do anything about it either. ' A four-week survey carried-out during February and March. by the federal Environmental Protection Service showed that. the water of much of Saanich Inlet’ contains fecal OPEN “LUNCH & A TIP FROM SID "keep your mower in i We have a Full Line . a New & NG eos 2RRORNDM 214, BORG BNE YG 292, J-ONG- 8x1 238 GLAZED CLEAR | Deep Cove Chalet TUESDAY to SUNDAY 656-3541 For ‘safety's aes show you care — A NEW LAWNMOWER FOR. FATHERS’ DAY? 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Sewage that runs directly to the ocean from older houses along the shoreline contribute to the problem, as do communal: ‘sewers, faulty septic tanks allowing sewage to seep into water running into storm drains, heavy marine traffic and agricultural run-off. As health officer, Arneil is mainly. concerned with direct . drainage: into: the ocean, and-he said the other causes .come under ‘the jurisdiction . of the provincial pollution control branch, © Fisheries and Environment Canada, and the department of agriculture, “Tam not- happy about direct outfalls to the sea,”’ he said, ‘‘but because of the ‘grandfather clause’ which governed the. discharge of wastes from ‘houses’ built - long ago, it would be unfair for us to make the people in the houses find an alternate disposal system... The. only thing we-can do is make sure that ‘new individual ~ systems comply with our regulations.”’ In the. meantime, beaches will remain closed to harvesting of clams, oysters and molluscs until a second water: quality. ‘survey. shows - the fecal colophorm count cis’ under” 14° fecal colophorms:. ° per™. 100 r'spred wood stain Te” j “ ~YOUR CHOICE EXTRA THICK 5 ALIKYD. QR: EASYTOUSE. “LATEX ~ SALE - PRUE millilitres of water, a level processing © ‘from. 800 to “that..is. safe for -shellfish | 1,000 samples in their on- a "consumption. : And that survey won’t tbe ‘There . weré: five crew «. we done until there has been a | members, « three’ doing the - significant ‘said | marine: sampling - -and: two: Bruce Kay, environmental The survey of Saanich anything ‘that. could create ‘Inlet was very extensive, ‘he ‘contamination. He said the “said. They had 90 sampling | two programs | were then co- .Moses Point, samples: from each at least |, The” survey crew does “six times in the four weeks, three such surveys: a: year, ian ~ SNOBOY = set pat ty [salen ote ‘Potatoes corn ON THE cob | - Lettuce . “took: | tamination sources were. : 24s pees “Clearing Some a TOSHIBA STEREO COMPONENTS — : Speakers, Receivers, Turntables : pe & Cassette Decks : tt - SEMI TRANSPARENT Available of SALE PRICE "INSULATION SPECIAL _ ALL PAPER BACKED MATERIAL R-12-23" = 230 Tt, RD DTS 150 FL R- 20. 1s" . HOE. Cin, Cin, ‘Cm, ‘Point -and .ENADLE US TO PASS THESE ; “ SAVINGSONTOYOUL~ 33,74 (22.00 © 21.48 © clean-up, head. of the | doing a land-based sanitary protection | survey. The. latter: ‘group. service’s crew that did the checked °: streams, . ditches survey. 39” THe PLYWOOD oro precrcsry _WEEKDAYS 9-9 "SUNDAYS Te 9 on . hy Ra BRENTWOOD ; & ry a CORNER OF WALLACE DR. & W. 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Saanich’ ’ Mayor: George Westwood. - “Shellfish harvesting in BRICK _ Pat Bay has-been going on MISS MEW ead " oe os for .decades,’’.° he.- said.” rn are “Even though the beaches R | hes Ce it Fe d fo PR Ses : i --®are. closed’ now,’? he said, e IS es a 00 Vii oe Pees “it may well be. that -we “42 Pues were ‘doing something - oe rae before that we really. ought © not to have been doing.” ce “If agricultural run-off is: a potential: source of. ~ contamination, then | Be have : the problem of ff - growing food .as'a-source =. while on the other hand, we 4 “have: contamination of 8° shellfish which [s food. as: well bee oe Members of the Tsaykum Indian Reserve have found: f-. - themselves affected by the: Po. “glosure. a8. well, said. band. ‘a member. 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