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Port Alberni, Hog Fuel Dump
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(Dust Generated from Traffic on Pile.) |

(Hog Fuel Pile approx. 600 feet long.) |
(With a Strong south wind, wood debris is picked up
by the wind and carried into Dry Creek which is a Coho bearing stream.)
Past Dumping Practices: for many years, used oils, some
likely containing PCB's, paint thinners, creosote, solvents, turpentine, glues, old paint
& other unwanted substances. Such as clarifier sludge, bleached and unbleached
stock and the associated water from the paper making process were dumped on the pile for
destruction in the power boiler.
Present Dumping Practices are much more restrictive.
However from time to time oil contaminated water, stock with contaminated water
from the paper making process and small amounts of unidentified oils are directed to
the Hog Pile for disposal. Sludge from the effluent treatment plant is dumped on the
pile continuously.
It has been suggested to both Provincial and Federal Fisheries
Ministers that a wide range of testing be done to determine the state of the soils around
and beneath the pile. There has been no known official response to the Letter of May
22nd, 1998.
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