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[sdwright.vic]

^well all I remember hearing was that someone was not cooperating with the police.

[Bingo]

looking at Gary's old picture and the new picture, it looks to me like the barge had about 9-10 layers of cars above the railing two years ago, and 13 layers this time.  I suspect someone just decided to overload it.  

 

Or maybe they work in percentages, like 50 % full, 63 % full, or 99.7 percent full. That is more accurate...heck we talk about percentages* all the time around here.

[Chris City]

I was told they could go as high as 40' above the sidewalls.

[Bingo]

I was told they could go as high as 40' above the sidewalls.

So that would mean each car needs to be flattened to about 3 feet according to this picture,

keeping in mind that some of the cars had already fallen off when this photo was taken.

 

[Chris City]

I took this photo a couple of years ago, just going under Bay Street Bridge:

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[sdwright.vic]

BC Transit seems to contribute allot.

[HB]

There are a numer of BC transit buses on site now as there are at their scrap yard in Cassidy.

After they are farmed for parts at the Wilsons Transport Shop on Glanford  or deemed useless they are recycled

[jonny]

These barges must lose a lot of garbage in the ocean. Little bits of plastic, glass, metal, etc.

[Mike K.]

Nothing sewage treatment won't fix.

[todd]

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Edited by todd, 05 September 2015 - 06:54 PM.

[Sparky]

These barges must lose a lot of garbage in the ocean. Little bits of plastic, glass, metal, etc.

 

It's a little hard to fathom, (see what I did there?) but we used to barge our garbage out into the Straight of Juan de Fuca and just dump it into the water.

[VicHockeyFan]

It's a little hard to fathom, (see what I did there?) but we used to barge our garbage out into the Straight of Juan de Fuca and just dump it into the water.

Was that all our garbage or just the kind of stuff that would sink? I seem to recall the barge departed from the bottom of Swift St. or Herald.

[Bingo]

Families heading to the beach this summer don’t need to pack a garbage rake. It was a different story when the City of Victoria dumped its refuse into the ocean.

Back then, bringing a rake to the beach along with towels and a lunch was a good idea.

For fifty years, from 1908 to 1958, municipal workers loaded garbage on scows at the city's garbage wharf near the Blue Bridge on Johnson Street.

A tug towed the scows past Ogden Point and dumped the garbage into the sea.

   

 more; http://www.beaconhil...122_garbage.htm

 

[VicHockeyFan]

The dump facility was still in place into the 80's I think they still dumped waste like concrete and asphalt.

EDIT: oh I see it was used as a transfer station until 1986.

[Sparky]

Was that all our garbage or just the kind of stuff that would sink? I seem to recall the barge departed from the bottom of Swift St. or Herald.

 

It was everything. An interesting factoid was that bottles (along with other floating crap) washed up on the area beaches and were smashed on the rocks. The wave actions then ground the glass into colourful beach jewellery.

[todd]

It's a little hard to fathom, (see what I did there?) but we used to barge our garbage out into the Straight of Juan de Fuca and just dump it into the water.

 

Yes, but that is in the depths of time. 

[Mike K.]

I went by there yesterday. Looks like lots of work remains to be done and more vehicles/debris will end up in the drink.

[Bingo]

Yes, but that is in the depths of time. 

But this is not getting to the bottom of the situation.

As for the blue glass that used to be found at Saxe Point when I was a kid, came from the milk of magnesia bottles, or so I was told. But the main thing that used to wash ashore were condoms, but then we didn't know what those were when we were kids, and I'm not much wiser today.

[HB]

Before the early 1970s the outfall pipes from the sewers were so close to the shore you could see them. Around 1973 they were extend out to around 1.6 km from shore.

The reason you were finding so much debris including rubbers and feces and so many more floating toilet paper etc etc was because when you dump the stuff only 20 feet from low tide line much of it just floated to shore.

At least now and for the past 40 years the solids that get past the screensit goes out into the current and we send it to Whidbey Island and Puget sound

[jklymak]

At least now and for the past 40 years the solids that get past the screensit goes out into the current and we send it to Whidbey Island and Puget sound

 

Just in case you were not being facetious: the current goes out to sea.