Major cleanup underway in Pitt Meadows
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 лют 2024
- A major cleanup effort is underway this week along the lower Alouette River in Pitt Meadows. For decades, a short stretch of the waterway has been accumulating junk. As our Rafferty Baker shows us, there are submerged boats, abandoned docks, and lots more to be hauled out of the river.
Connect with CBC Vancouver online:
Website: www.cbc.ca/bc
TikTok: / cbcvancouver
#CBCVancouver #CBCNews #BritishColumbia #pittmeadows #lakealouette #cleanup
This is excellent news, always good to see this type of initiative. Our waters are priceless.
Those boats have been there for as long as I can remember. It's nice to see it all being cleaned up.
It really does not matter how much it cost, it just needs to get done.
... They should try to find the owners and send them the bills.
Thank you Mark and everyone.
Great to see. Thanks to the group work and TC. Really enjoy canoeing on the river.
Kudos to this guy and the others that came together to get this area cleaned up!!
Really nice to see the cleanup. There’s a need for much, much more immediate follow up so the last owners of the abandoned items can be made responsible for the cleanup & it’s much more immediate. Then there’s less environmental impact, fewer dangers and a less $$ to the Government costs of cleaning up. Once several people have been prosecuted & it’s made very public, then there’s a much better chance that others in the future will arrange for the item to be properly disposed of.
About time! Have been on the water several times on that stretch of the Alouette. Sad to see people getting away with abandoning boats for others to clean up.
And they’re going to look up the registration of each of these boats and then bill the owners for abandonment? People need to be accountable
Boats change hands so many times and registrations are never up to date ( fed responsibility)so you couldn't really do that as you'd never find the last owner that dumped the boat
@@drumswest5035 worse than Transport Canada being the only registrar, it is optional to register. Registration is only recommended if you are planning on taking the boat across borders to other countries, the restriction by insurers that you can only travel to Puget Sound or Southeast Alaska where the registration isn't needed means there is no incentive for people to pay the registration fees.
you may not find the last owner but you could find the registered owner then from there trace it to the last owner. May not work 100% of the time but there are a lot of people that may have receipts, contact info etc of who they sold the boat too (especially if you pressure them with the fine themselves....they will try to flip quickly) @@drumswest5035
I believe its federal only on the ocean.
@@darrylb4048to get the radio license is federal as well, but it doesn't require the boat itself to be registered. it's the radio, radar, gps and ais that are registered.
Wow some good news! Geez where did that come from... no sensationalism or robot script reading!
I think this is the first time I gave a like to a CBC video on UA-cam and hopefully not the last!
Surprised no one's on here calling it fake.
@@crushingvanessa3277well we didn't get the cost but we will pay for it 😮
When are they going to get rid of that ugly metal barge beside the pitt bridge... how long has it been 10 years?
Very happy to see my taxes going to this.
Great work Mark and teams. Your Chauffeur, J Bruce, Hollywood North 🇨🇦
Great job !!!!!!
Hell yes, that is super gross seeing all that old decaying boats 🛥️ there thank you for getting it cleaned up🙏✅
Though I do like the look of old abandoned things I think this is really good!
Great job. Let's make Pitt Meadows great again.
Good job. I would love to work for that clean up company. After almost 30 years working for city government in Utah I will be 57. Still young enough to have fun cleaning up nature. :) have Kayak will travel
the Spanish were able to get up into Harrison Lake and the silver mines through Pitt Poulder, until the Dutch showed up, drained it, and homesteaded the ground. It's now a very large golf course!!
Do you have a source for that? I would like to know how they crossed the ridges in between.
I'd like to have that old tugboat.
This is fantastic news.
Any salvageable boats?
How can a public agency decline to state the cost to the public!? Shouldn't you be asking some more questions there?
Money well spent. There were a couple of really old looking boats there a few years ago that were quite photogenic but the garbage needed to go.
Clean it up own boat need held accountable for this mess
Unfortunately it's on both coasts of Canada, but at least something is being done.
I just hope they remember to replace the area excavated with something to act as a fish shelter
The government collects fees with their boat # system but. they provide no way of dealing with the old boats…which is exactly what these fees weee supposed to be for.
Failure of government 👎
Send bill to owners
Sunken ships are excellent habitats for marine life and shelter from strong water flow
It’s about time
Wonderful would love to work for a company that does this.
A recycling deposit should be levied on boats at purchase for end of life disposal costs
Up the river without a paddle, nice to see the clean up but sad to see no accountability.
The fiberglass boats are from the 70s and 80s
If the derelict boats are from the 40s or 50s, there no one left alive to fine sadly. Times were probably different back then. People probably abandoned stuff with no thought to the local environment or wild life or they ran out of $$$ to maintain or upkeep their watercraft and scuttled them down river with no one the wiser. I hope some of them are still alive somewhere to come forward and pay up for the damage to the waterway and wetlands.
Vancouver always telling industry they destroy the environment, meanwhile look at there waterways in their backyard
Room temperature IQ?
What does Vancouver have to do with rural people dumping in the river? Nobody in Vancouver has a boat lol.
Better late than never... but also are boat owners still getting away with this and are more boats being abandoned.
WE, are paying for this cleanup.
Happy to see my taxes doing something actually useful.
@@HalcyonGuitarsI know some hoarders down the road. They property is an eye sore and bad for the environment. You can pay to clean it up too. The cost is non-negotiable and we refuse to tell you how much it costs.😂
Is it a FN reserve part of the river?
You know rivers move things until they get stuck somewhere right?
no its old houseboats, docks, and then a marina around the corner. High traffic area now exposed by the explosion of new residents to the area all using costco kayaks
Find who the boats were last registered to and fine the hell out of them! If you can afford a boat you can afford to clean it up when youre done with it
At some point owners need to pay for thier old boats and docks.. The idea we as tax payers pay for this is absurd..
Must be nice that some folks can afford to let their expensive boats rot and decay and not think twice about cleaning up the mess they created.
Fifty thousand dollar boats dont abandon themselves. How many former owners are homeless or non resident who just left?
It is all good but should have never been allowed to get to the point of abandonment
in the first place .All boats have numbers and registrations no matter how old and
should be put back on to the last owner or estate . I have lived in the lower mainland
all my 65 years and as a kid the river was my playground .From Steveston to the upper
Pitt to Hope where I live today. I will say Creosote Pilings are the worst thing for a River
And the rail beds have Creosote ties and all the telephone poles. all close to the rivers.
Holly cow
Skipper-- "hey Captain we just got a nice new boat we don't need this old one any more what should we do with it"
Captain-- "aaahhhh just throw it in the river.....someone else will deal with it."
👍
Amazed they cannot, or will not attempt to contact the owners. Albeit some may have passed away, Im sure many are still around. These owners are pigs, with no regard for anything or anyone. Koodos to the authorities working with salvage operators to clean up this toxic filth in our waterways. Im a boater, I would never abandon my watercraft this way.
It should never get to this point. People should be ashamed.
As a specie, we make a lot of trash not just in the water everywhere we are trash monsters
Whats gets me is these are the most sanctimonious self righteous people on the planet that live around there and this is the mess in their own yard. Yet they have the gall to point the finger at others.
those boats they have a number a name juste find they orner and charge him for the deasposal
Most of the previous owners are probably dead by now.
Dude the fuel leaves by water replacing it
It’s a weight thing
Oil does it too
The rest will rot but years yes. Long gone that oil and fuel
Should never have been allowed to get this far though with todays environmental concerns !
If people had💓 heart for maintaining their boats it would be considered classic. Seems people always want new things. Possesions dont get you into the gates of heaven🌦️🌨️⛅it even states in the "BIBLE"
Charge owners
About f****** time. Such a beautiful space to be full of garbage.
Absofuknlootely! doesn't matter how much the cost. Oh yea the druggies cost us how much?
Why in God's name would you let it get to this point?
like homeless camps, derelict boats need to be jumped on NOW and not allowed decades of accumulation. Divide the cost paid to these guys by decades of years. then it looks cheap.
What did it take so many years for turdo to do something. . He’s wasted so much on useless things before this
Maybe all the asylum seekers could do clean up for their free food, housing, healthcare, legal fees
whos paying for this.
Terrible
Shouldn’t this be the type of thing our carbon tax is covering?