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THE 20-YEAR SAGA OF A FOULED CREEK ‘Muted’ official response to complaints of waterway’s stench Tyler OLSEN Abbotsford News
While there is a plan in place to stop manure runoff and discarded milk from a McMillan dairy farm from fouling a local creek, residents are questioning why it took 20 years to find a solution. Last September, The News reported that a pair of McMillan Court residents were fed up with a small creek that smelled “like an outhouse”
for much of that summer. Karen Copeland and Sherri Godfrey said the small creek had been a source of rotten smells dating back more than a decade. The small watercourse is known as Gill Creek and collects water from local storm drains along McMillan Road and runs west into Lonzo Creek Park. Copeland and Godfrey said the stream had periodically turned a white colour for years. When her sister visited last August, Copeland said “there were times where we couldn’t stand
to be outside on my back deck because the smell was so bad.” Officials have since traced the source of the odour to a dairy farm about one kilometre north of Gill Creek, on McMillan Road. The family of the farm’s current owner, Kathy Cooper, has lived and worked on the property for 90 years. As development has overtaken the area, drainage patterns have changed, but the dairy operation has remained. A barn on the property sits just feet from a steep retaining wall built Continued on A4
‘OVERLOOKED’ SOLDIERS A16 Vimy Ridge ceremony will recognize 11 local soldiers not named on cenotaph
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Manure runoff from a McMillan Road farm has been cited as the cause of strong odours in Gill Creek.
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