ya, that's a bizarre one. Considering what hoops streamkeepers have to go through in order to do volunteer their time to do good things for creeks and rivers I am very surprised to hear that DFO has approved this. Makes a guy think their is some funny business going on here.
http://www.tricitynews.com/news/moving-creek-has-port-coquitlam-streamkeepers-worried-1.2319407
A group of Port Coquitlam streamkeepers are raising the alarm about a plan to move a large portion of a Maple Creek tributary to make way for a massive house.
Maple Creek Streamkeepers say the plan to move 55 m of a Maple Creek side channel 5 m northwest of its existing path will undo 20 years of hard work in improving habitat and enhancing coho salmon and cutthroat trout in the area.
"When you move a stream you never get back the productivity of the stream," said Sandy Budd, the group's president, who fears the approval of a watercourse development permit to move the creek running behind an existing house at 2545 Kitchener Ave. will unleash a flood of similar requests.
The proposal by property owner Yang de Yang, a retired businessman from China, has received approval by Fisheries and Oceans Canada after consultation with the Kwikwetlem First Nation. And Yang's daughter, who plans to live in the proposed 10,000-sq. ft. house with her extended family, said work will be done to save fish and improve habitat as part of the creek relocation.
"My father… he wants to build a kind of dream home for us," Amelia Yang told The Tri-City News. "That's why we would like to take time and spend money to relocate the creek.
"We have put a lot of effort [into it]," she said. "We hired professionals to see how we can minimize the effect on the environment."
But the proposal for such a large home on the narrow, tree-lined street has neighbours riled and the streamkeepers concerned.
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