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The City of Richmond says it’s taking steps to deal with a former dump that’s releasing old garbage into the Fraser River.
This comes after a story CityNews brought you about Stephen LaRocca — a beachcomber with a sizable social media following — who discovered the problem. …
The beachcomber says he told the city about the garbage when he discovered it in 2019. However, Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie says he didn’t learn about it until a recent news article.
“I’m not aware that I had any knowledge of it prior to the recent newspaper article. Whether anybody at the city did, I’m not sure, that’ll be one of the questions that we will have,” he told CityNews.
The mayor says once the city gets recommendations from the environmental consultant, clean up efforts will begin.
“What it is, where it is, how deep it is, is it just on the land, is it actually submerged? Is it in the river? We just have to find out the answer to all those questions before we can really be definitive in what we are going to be able to do. But at the end of the day, we do want this to be cleaned up,” he explained. …