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#121 todd

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Posted 16 December 2014 - 07:14 PM

The home is on a street behind the Oak Bay Firehall, not far from Bowker Creek.

The creek goes into a culvert at Monterey Ave. under the firehall parking lot and some playing fields before re-emerging at Monteith Street.

At one time "the Bowker Creek ravine beside the firehall became the municipal garbage dump in 1914"

Any connection to the fumes?

http://www.webturf.c...ory/milestones/

 

Very interesting, would make sense, many people don't know this, bet that the home owners don't. Used to live couple doors down from that house a long time ago the neighbours next to us house sunk at some point, upstairs it was like walking uphill to get across the room.

 

 

 

It's mentioned here as well: https://www.oakbay.c...ory/murdoch.pdf

 

"Either the cartographer was a practical joker or Bowker Creek must have been
considerably larger than today, for an early map describes it as the "Thames River". Even
as late as 1912, reference is made to the "Thames Valley" in municipal documents. A later
map of 1855 calls it "Tod's Stream" and later still, following the death of John Tod, it
became known as "Bowker Creek". Where the stream joined the sea there was quite a
sizeable ravine (later used as a garbage dump)"
 
1914- "During the year the culvert under Hampshire Road had been continued through the
ravine at Monterey Crescent to a point just beyond the end of Monteith Street and by
August of this year a commencement was made in the dumping of garbage in the ravine,
this being covered with dirt."
 
1923- "In mid-year Council decided to install a garbage incinerator at the dump on Monterey
Crescent; however, following a petition against this project from W. E. Adams and thirty
other residents, it was decided not to proceed with the work."
 
1929- "A group of 38 residents presented a petition to Council requesting the closure of the
Monterey Crescent garbage dump. They were advised that this dumping ground would not
be extended beyond Monteith Street and that Council was negotiating with the City for
disposal of garbage by scow. A month later, an agreement was entered into with the City
whereby Oak Bay garbage would be accepted at the Victoria garbage wharf at a rate of
25¢ per cubic yard."
 
 
 
About 1929 is when a lot of the original houses were built in this area.

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#122 Mike K.

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Posted 17 December 2014 - 07:54 AM

No wonder Victoria didn't want to amalgamate with Oak Bay way back when, the City was making money from their garbage.
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#123 rjag

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 08:03 AM

So it turns out I not only know someone on Woodlawn where the CO discharge was but its his building site! So apparently the building inspector and the blaster looked very closely at this and as far as they can determine the most likely cause was a broken sewage pipe that had trapped gases from the house where the leak was and the vibrations from the blasting released the gases back into the house.

They have tested the ground all over the site and there is nothing showing up. The neighbours have taken up residence at the OBBH for the week and are claiming the costs from my buddy. approx. $1k per day. Except that no-one told them to move out for the week just for the day until the venting was done and additional detections devices were installed.

The building site is beside a house he bought and restored for his own use and the neighbours were all over him as the lot was a deer habitat...say no more


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#124 Mike K.

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 08:23 AM

Is he expected to reimburse them for their entire hotel stay?

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#125 rjag

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 09:03 AM

That's what they are implying. He's a pretty savvy guy so I'm sure he won't get sucked in too far on this

#126 Bingo

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 10:27 AM

 

The building site is beside a house he bought and restored for his own use and the neighbours were all over him as the lot was a deer habitat...say no more

 

Neighbourhood block watch at work.

Save the deer, but keep them over in your backyard, and don't you dare build on the deer habitat lot.

Grrrr...you would think they belonged to Santa or something.... :mad:


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#127 Bingo

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 12:27 PM

Speaking of Santa, he has his communication device over at the OB Municipal Hall, but the question you have to ask yourself...

...Have I been Baadd... or GOOD?  I was out with some friends last night and I'm not sure about some of them.   :)

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#128 skeptic

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 01:25 PM

So it turns out I not only know someone on Woodlawn where the CO discharge was but its his building site! So apparently the building inspector and the blaster looked very closely at this and as far as they can determine the most likely cause was a broken sewage pipe that had trapped gases from the house where the leak was and the vibrations from the blasting released the gases back into the house.

They have tested the ground all over the site and there is nothing showing up. The neighbours have taken up residence at the OBBH for the week and are claiming the costs from my buddy. approx. $1k per day. Except that no-one told them to move out for the week just for the day until the venting was done and additional detections devices were installed.

The building site is beside a house he bought and restored for his own use and the neighbours were all over him as the lot was a deer habitat...say no more

This doesn't line up with the stories in the Times Colonist or the Oak Bay News. And if there was any truth to this statement here I'm quite sure the Oak Bay building department would have said so, because right now they look really bad because of how they acted. Coincidentally, take a look at this shot of the Oak Bay News over in the OBBH thread http://vibrantvictor...-2013/?p=242608. There is a letter there on the subject.

 

Oh, and for those of you who think the CO came from ancient garbage or was just hanging around in the ground: garbage produces methane, not CO, and in fact CO is not naturally occurring except as a product of incomplete combustion (and that does not include rotting garbage).



 



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