We are Anmore Green Estates (AGE), a 51-home community in Anmore, BC. Portions of our property boundary form the jurisdictional boundary between the Village of Anmore (Anmore) and the City of Port Moody (Port Moody). 

Our property has contained compact housing and a community septic field since the 1970s; In the 1990s the mobile homes were replaced with the houses that are there today. During each stage of our properties’ development, the areas down slope of our septic field contained gently sloped parkland that was covered with mature forest.

That began to change in the 2000s when the downslope parklands began to be rezoned and developed into the two SD 43 schools and a recreation area that are there now. The result of the SD 43 developments is that the gently sloped parkland has been replaced with cut banks and retaining walls. The cut banks leak septic leachate into the school grounds. The very schools our kids attend. 

There is a municipal septic line that we want connection to, but permission to connect is a political nightmare. The problem is that our homes are in Anmore and the connection is in Port Moody; the sewage in the Port Moody pipe is treated by Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District (GVSDD), and the pipes we could connect to are under SD 43 lands. This means the connection of AGE to the nearby sewer line requires permission from, and cooperation among all these parties. 

In 2017 the provincial Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (ENV) became involved. ENV mandated environmental testing confirmed that leachate is daylighting in dangerously high concentrations. In 2018 ENV mandated three separate engineering reports, all determined that no engineering solution can be designed where there is a reasonable amount of risk to the students and public that use the downslope environment. Simply put, the change in the neighbouring land use means no onsite treatment is safe enough. 

Regardless to the conclusions of these reports, permission to connect has not been given, and the process to get to a connection is still unknown. This lack of resolution is not caused by a lack of knowledge on this issue. If anything, the amount of information that exists from nearly two-decades of documentation is overwhelming. 

As we see it, the true stumbling blocks are the level of distrust that exists among the groups, and the difficulty of ensuring all involved or effected by this contamination have access to the pertinent information. To help resolve these issues, AGE has set up this website. Our intent is to share our information openly in hopes that by allowing the parties involved and the public access to our information, so they can decide for themselves what is true, and what is acceptable. 

The information provided on this site has been collected from detailed reviews of AGE Strata records, publicly available information, and documents received under a Freedom of Information Act requests. 

Given the sheer volume of documentation available we have uploaded key summary documents and the most recent communications. If you are looking for more information, or copies of any referenced documents that have not been uploaded, please send an email to the address listed on the contacts page.