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• VOLUNTEER TRACY FRENCH (left) joins project worker Andrea Geoffroy gathering debris in T. 'Buck' Suzuki Environmental Foundation marsh clean-up project in Queesborough April 19.
Suzuki Foundation joins in Fraser marsh cleanup
"Look at this," said marsh clean-up worker Andrea Geoffroy as she added a chunk of rotten plywood to a heap of debris on the river bank in Queensborough. "And this area's supposed to be protected."
The plywood joins a rusty car seat, paint cans, chunks of tar, broken bottles and windows and other junk Geoffroy and other marsh clean-up workers have piled up by South Dyke Road. They are working on a Suzuki Environmental Foundation-sponsored project on the Fraser River.
Good logs are taken by a log salvager, smaller pieces cut up for firewood, recyclable material sorted, and useless debris sent to landfill sites.
Five jobs were created by the T. "Buck" Suzuki Environmental Foundation with funding from Employment and Immigration Canada and approval from the Fraser River Estuary Management Program.
The banks and estuary areas of the river are polluted with a variety of debris including logs, industrial litter, construction garbage and boating refuse. The debris builds up in sloughs, cutting off water flow and killing the sloughs. The clean up of the river involves the removal of log debris and metal, and a clean-up of the river banks.
Volunteers such as Brad Clark and Mike Ladislaus have been working for years on local clean up projects, but have encountered difficulty getting funding.
In the winter of 1990-91, under an unemployment insurance emergency program, Clark and Ladislaus were able to coordinate some clean-up work in the Fraser River.
This year, fisher Terry Slack has volunteered many
hours drawing up plans and an equipment list, as well as working on clearing projects.
Slack has been working in the West Bay marsh near Tils-bury Island since the end of March. He said the one-half mile marsh along the river is very important salmon fry habitat.
"It's atransition zone where the fresh water mixes with the ocean when the tide comes in," Slack said. "You can see the fry go up the channels we've cleared. There's thousands of them."
A log salvager was hired to pull merchantable logs off the river banks and Slack has been cutting and stacking smaller chunks above the water line.
With a shingle mill at each end of the marsh, cedar debris continues to pile up in the marsh.
"The bottom is all covered in cedar bark," Slack said. "What we really need is 20 or 30 people to come in and pick all that up."
Slack also said the marsh has to be cleared on a continuing basis. "It has to be maintained," he said. "If you don't go in and do at least one week's work a year, you're wasting your time."
The Suzuki Foundation project has provided five people to work on a similar project at Annacis Channel.
The jobs are being funded through an Employment and
Immigration Section 25 unemployment insurance top-up program.
The "Habitat Restoration and Public Participation Project" is a cooperative initiative of the Suzuki Foundation and the Fraser River Estuary Management Program.
The 16-week project started April 13 and the workers will be assisted by volunteers in some parts of the clean-up.
They will collect debris from the river bank on South Dyke Road in Queensborough before moving to the Robson Island Bar marsh for the duration of the project.
The flow of the Fraser River deposits much of the debris on this shore. Logs, smaller wood and garbage clog the marsh and the foreshore.
"One of the reasons we're doing this in Queensborough is to raise community awareness and the profile of the river," said program coordinator Hilda Bechler. "We want to keep a secure working moorage for the fishing community here."
Suzuki Foundation director Mae Burrows said that besides the practical work of cleaning up the marshes, the project helps inform people of the importance of the river.
"We get a very positive reaction from our members and the public doing hands-on clean-up projects to restore the marshes " she said.
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