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[Guts and Glory]

It's interesting - such a big drop but the boats are still there, as are the geese, and it hasn't rained that much in the last week.  The water is probably getting cooler at night but temperatures in the day are still very warm. 

[Peter B]

Keep in mind that the posted reading is a 30 day geometric mean (like an average). So the actual level today may be much lower, and it will take a month of low readings to pull the average down.

[brainiac]

Sept. 18th readings for False Creek:

West 167
Central 420
East 2069

West and Central are down a lot from the previous week but the count actually went up slightly in the east.

[Creature]

1950 east basin (30 day geometric mean).

http://www.vch.ca/media/Beach_Water_Quality_Report_September_25_2014.pdf

Last report of the season!

[Rob]

Let me get on my soapbox. 

For Vancouver residents, the civic elections is coming up.  When it comes to voting and to budgeting, please make you voice herd that you want funds to go into the sewer department. 

Untreated sewage still is coming into False Creek. Continuing to  upgrade the sewer system to a twin system, over the old combined system is important. That twin system has a storm sewer for rain water, and a sanitary sewer pipe for the sewage.  The storm pipes go to the water, and the sanitary pipes go to the treatment plant.    Also maintaining the sewer system is important to minimize sewage outfall into False creek.  For example, if the sanitary sewer pipe under Chinatown section of Columbia street backs up from grease, it relieves itself untreated in the North East corner of False Creek.     

[Creature]

I'm pretty sure the sewage overflow is now separated from the stormwater system in that area of the city, and I think it was done pre 2010.  In any case the entire Vancouver system is supposed to be separated by 2020, well ahead of the province's 2050 goal.

According to http://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/separating-sewage-from-rainwater.aspx ("Vancouver's progress" section), downtown and Mt. Pleasant have been completed.