RE: 20-HPAC-01227 - Piling Replacement, Limekiln Bay, View Royal
Email correspondence between DFO and Swell Environmental Consulting regarding a scope update to add a second 12” steel pile to the project.
Correspondence: Piling Replacement, Limekiln Bay, View Royal
From: "Smith, Vanessa" Vanessa.Smith@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Subject: RE: 20-HPAC-01227 - Piling Replacement, Limekiln Bay, View Royal Date: May 10, 2021 at 1:55:15 PM PDT To: Lehna Malmkvist lehna@swell.ca
Good afternoon Lehna,
Thank you for contacting DFO regarding an update to this project (DFO #20-HPAC-01227) to install a second 12” steel pile at the southwest corner of the dock. We appreciate you informing the department of these changes and acknowledge the updated project scope. If this is the only change, then the Letter of Advice DFO issued to you on December 18, 2020 remains valid.
In addition to the measures set out in your project proposal and those described in the Letter of Advice, we also recommend implementing the following measure to protect marine mammals:
- Vessels must maintain a minimum distance of 200m from killer whales, except in the area between Campbell River and just north of Ucluelet including Barkley and Howe Sound where the minimum distance is 400m, and 100m from all other whales, dolphins and porpoises (2021 management measures to protect Southern Resident killer whales | Pacific Region | Fisheries and Oceans Canada (dfo-mpo.gc.ca).
Please keep a copy of this email in addition to the Letter of Advice on site while this work is in progress and let me know if you have any further questions.
Thank you,
Vanessa Smith Biologist, Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Program Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Government of Canada Vanessa.Smith@dfo-mpo.gc.ca |
From: Lehna Malmkvist lehna@swell.ca Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 3:45 PM To: Smith, Vanessa Vanessa.Smith@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Subject: Re: 20-HPAC-01227 - Piling Replacement, Limekiln Bay, View Royal
Hi Vanessa,
We have a small update to this project, the owner would like to add a second piling to provide additional stability for the dock (see airphoto below and addendum to my our previous report).
The same environmental protection measures will be implemented for installation of the second piling, and work is still proposed for between July 1 and October 1 of this year.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Lehna
Lehna Malmkvist, M.Sc., R.P. Bio. She/Her Swell Environmental Consulting Ltd.
p: (250) 217-9190 e: lehna@swell.ca