Controlled blasting is underway along Dallas road to build a trench for a a new seage line from Clover Point to Ogden Point, but it's having negative affects on the residents of the area.
Residents along Dallas road have been complaining that the blasting is causing damage to their houses and properties.
Tim Spackman, resident of the 100-block of Dallas Road, says the blasting may not be the best method to dig the trench in a residential neighbourhood. "You can imagine if you're digging a trench, and you're blowing rock up in the trench on a solid piece of rock, and there's a house 20 feet away, you can imagine what's gonna happen. Blasting may be the most effective and cheapest way to dig a trench, but really, at the cost of damaging homes, I would have hoped they would have at least considered other methods."
He says he goes out to work every day, and when he comes home he finds something new that is damaged. "From the stairs, to the pillars, to seperation of the walls and other things like this, Nails being pushed out of the drywall. And so the house really took a hammering, cracking in the garage pad and stuff like that."
Spackman adds that the blasting is also posing a risk to people, saying his neighbouring cement building shook so much after a blast that the residents were knocked over.
He says putting in a new sewage line is great, but the method's being used are far from ideal.
Spackman adds that he and his neighbours have written letters to the CRD and the city, but have yet to hear a response.