The spill is very bad today and the smell is very strong. It was getting dark but there may be substantial damage to the ponds and stream.

I also frequent the park and am upset by the spill. I couldn't even walk in the area because of the fumes. I tried a few times to report (by calling on Monday) that the booms were not helping enough. I could not get anyone no matter which way I tried. Today I got busy at work and forgot to phone during business hours and I didn't have a chance to look at it before dark. I sincerely hope that the city is doing a better job of cleaning this up. There is a resident beaver who is already displaced from the ravine where the sewer lines are being replaced. I have seen owls, cranes/herons?, and ducks living there. The rehabilitation was going really well and this incident is so sad! I can only imagine what it looks like downstream.

Do we know where the oil came from?

This issue is still not resolved, oil is amongst the grasses around the lower ponds and needs to be cleaned up. After the first heavy rainfall the oil boom in the upper pond simply broke up and washed downstream to litter the creek area.