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New digs

NANAIMO – Crews taking soil samples from Colliery Dam Park in preparation for auxiliary spillway construction.
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Thomas Madden

Thomas Madden, a geotechnical engineer with Golder Associates, collects soil samples from a test dig at Colliery Dam Park earlier this month.

City crews and consultants were in the park again this week for more samples and to get a look at the geology of the path for a new lower dam spillway and check for potential archaeological finds.



Chris Bush

About the Author: Chris Bush

As a photographer/reporter with the Nanaimo News Bulletin since 1998.
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