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Go Shamrocks! Victoria Shamrocks transition player Karsen Leung checks Six Nations Chiefs attacker Cody Jamieson during Game 4 of the Mann Cup, an 8-6 Chiefs’ win at Bear Mountain Arena on Tuesday (Sept. 10). The Shamrocks are playing Game 6 tonight at 7 p.m. and Game 7, if needed, Saturday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. For tickets visit victoriashamrocks.com.
ighlands Dis- of the Highlands District trict Community Community Association Association is members would like to see asking Christy the provincial government Clark for help protecting help set some regulations groundwater in rural com- for contaminated items being moved into rural munities. areas. In a letter Many Highlands to Clark, the residents are upset association about 150,000 cubic mentions metres of contamicommunity nated soil being associations trucked into the in Willis Point Highwest Landfill and Shawinrun by Tervita, on igan Lake also Millstream Road. struggling The soil is being with conremoved from the taminated Charla Huber Esquimalt Graving substances Reporting Dock as part of a threatening remediation projgroundwater. Willis Point Commu- ect. “I am not saying there nity Association is dealing with a proposed Capital is anything wrong with Regional District bio-sol- the containment system. I ids plant and Shawinigan have great confidence in Residents Association is Tervita, but we’ve never fighting a permit allowing designed a fail-proof syscontaminated soils to be tem that’s 100 per cent dumped at the Shawinigan safe,” Richardson said. “Why are we locating anyLake quarry. “The stuff we are talking thing over an important about is urban areas using community aquifer? We dumpsites in rural areas. live in a high earthquake Here the aquifer sits right zone.” Richardson does agree under the dump,” said Scott Richardson, chair of with concerned residents, Highlands District Com- but he is also concerned about rural communities munity Association. “They are taking con- depending on aquifers in taminated materials from similar situations. places that ironically don’t rely on groundwater and take it to a place that relies Please see: on groundwater.” Water woes, Page A3 Richardson and the rest
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