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FRIDAY, JAN. 5, 2018 Your community. Your stories. Five Convenient Tri-Cities
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TRI-CITY SCHOOLS
Sewage issue bubbles to surface E. coli, fecal coliform on property near two schools MARIO BARTEL
The Tri-CiTy News
Staff and students at Eagle Mountain middle school in Anmore and Heritage Woods secondary school in Port Moody have been advised to stay away from a nearby area that is contaminated with E. coli and fecal coliform. “We have communicated with staff, principals and students… about staying out of the marked off areas until we have more information,” said the chair of School District 43 Kerri Palmer Isaak. High levels of contamination (above 100 most probable number per gram) were detected at three of eight sites on a hillside on the northeast corner of the school’s property that were tested Sept. 27, 2017, according to David Karn, a spokesperson for the B.C. Ministry of the Environment. Moderate levels were found at four locations and one had no detectable contamination. The contamination likely leached downhill from a failed septic system that services the Anmore Green Estates and the townhouse development’s strata was issued a pollution abatement order to submit a plan to correct the problem and mitigate risks to public health by Dec. 31. That deadline was then extended to Jan. 15. But the president of the strata said the issues with its
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Robert Boies, the strata president at Anmore Green Estates, said warning signs and fencing erected Dec. 23 at the bottom of a hillside next to Eagle Mountain middle school are part of its effort to mitigate the hazard from the failure of the townhouse development’s septic field. He said the problem has been known for years but government wrangling has prevented a solution. septic system go back “for the better part of 15 years.” Robert Boies, who’s an original owner in the complex but currently rents out his unit,
said the construction of Eagle Mountain middle and Heritage Woods secondary schools had a negative impact on Anmore Green’s septic system. A day-
care is also located on the site and community sports fields at its east end. see ‘POLITICAL’, page 7
COQUITLAM DAYCARE RELIEF
Parents whose children attend a daycare at Blue Mountain park got good news on Thursday: page 3
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