Bowker Creek, the eight-kilometre urban waterway meandering through the region’s largest municipalities and mostly hidden by underground culverts after more than a century of development, is starting. . .
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B.C. Conservation officers are investigating the deaths of hundreds of fish in Sidney’s Reay Creek. On Friday afternoon, a five-year-old boy visiting the park with his parents spotted more than 300 . . .
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The lifeless fish had been spotted Friday afternoon by a five-year-old, said Bruce. The boy’s parents reported them to the Town of Sidney, which asked Bruce to investigate. He traced the contaminant to a storm drain entering the creek near the bottom of Frost Avenue. “It appears somebody did something with a lot of bleach and it dropped into their perimeter drains then flowed out through the storm drain into the creek,” he said. Bruce will pass his findings to investigative authorities in Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Ministry of Environment “and suggest they come out, knock on a few doors and do some education face-to-face.”