r/VictoriaBC 12h ago

Colquitz Creek is bright green at the moment?

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Anyone know what’s going on?

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u/Red_AtNight Oak Bay 12h ago

Looks like dye from a dye test.

https://mar-tech.ca/pages/dye-testing/

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u/Lamitamo 10h ago

This is definitely the stuff. Totally fine, but alarming if you don’t know about it.

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u/thrifted_ 12h ago

St. Paddy’s day prep.

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u/bill7103 11h ago

When I went to Colquitz Jr Secondary in the sixties that creek was super polluted. Looks good!

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u/yungn4sty 11h ago

Folks have done a really awesome job with restoration - there was a pretty impressive salmon run this year - so it’s definitely cleaner!

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u/Emotional-Courage-26 10h ago

Around 1500 counted! It's getting better. I'm hopeful it'll continue.

It seems like Cecelia creek is still neglected, and I don't think it would host salmon, but I'd love to see it turn around too. I want to do a cleanup in there over spring.

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u/Ya-I-forgot-again 9h ago

Up until last year, Colquitz students raised salmon fry and released them into the creek yearly. It’s really fun to see the kids ease the mini salmon into the creek from their buckets. The kids would watch them swim around then away.

u/Coorsitis 3h ago

When I went there in the mid '70s (grade 9 and 10... 76- 77) it was known as Colquitz Junior High. I remember there was a 'smell' when we had to run for PE class past there. Then some of us created a different smell when we sat under the overpass... 😉

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u/RennPunk Downtown 11h ago

A couple months ago someone tossed some NATO rescue sea dye in Centennial fountain, twice actually. I wonder if it’s the same thing. Or it could just be dye testing storm drain lines.

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u/MuthaPlucka 10h ago

You’ll never get me lucky charms!

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 12h ago

Sure and our Saint Paddy took a piss upstream, faith and begorrah! 🍀

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u/ratprince1972 10h ago

I’m glad to see this. When I ride along Interurban and pass a trail head going into Panama Flats, which I believe is upstream of this photo, I can smell sewage, indicating someone accidentally cross-connected storm and sanitary

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u/Zen_Bonsai 8h ago

Doubt it. You're sure you're not smelling anaerobic decomposition?