The Salmo Watershed Streamkeepers Society is celebrating the collaborative efforts on the latest remediation work.
Crews with the BC Crown Contaminated Sites Program are creating a single consolidated site to bury various tailings from the old Howard Mine mill south of Ymir.
Society coordinator Gerry Nellestijn says a win-win trade-off sees his organisation identify fill for the landfill while the excavation helps create wetlands.
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The engineered cover will go over the special landfill and involves some tree removal.
The Nelson-Salmo trail in the area will be closed for about a week.
Picture – http://www.streamkeepers.bc.ca
