The Tyee Club in partnership with the Pacific Salmon Foundation braved the elements on Saturday and recovered tires from the bottom of the Campbell River estuary using divers.
This is an accumulation that goes back decades. This is the fourth year this has been done and, to date, have removed approximately 300 tires and other misc. items from the floor of the estuary. On Saturday, 142 tires were retrieved from a relatively small area after half-a-day of effort. It will be next year before the fisheries window allows them to do it again.
“We plan on ramping up things next year with more volunteers, divers and boats,” said Tyee Club member Floyd Ross. “The more debris we get off the bottom the easier nature can restore itself and provide better habitat for young fingerlings.”
The clean up was made possible with assistance from Corilair, C&L Rentals, Contain-A-Way Services and Deep Search Diving Ltd.
