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activities, storm sewers, surface runoff, and
groundwater discharges.
“The A/B Jetty construction project is but
one—yes, by dollar value the largest one—of
a number of major DND projects that are cur-
rently underway, or soon to be getting under-
way, in the waters of Esquimalt Harbour,” says
Orford.
Esquimalt Harbour is the traditional territory
of local First Nation groups, with whom the
DND has long maintained a healthy relation-
ship. “Necessarily, we are taking all sorts of
measures to manage the delivery of our proj-
ects with due attention to the workplace’s
physical, natural, cultural and operational en-
vironment,” says Orford. The historic Dockyard
is another aspect of the project that requires
consideration, which Tonya Hughes, Project
Manager, compares to “working near a Euro-
pean Cathedral”.
ENVIRONMENTAL
STEWARDSHIP
“We are impacting not only the built terres-
trial environment of the historic Dockyard,
yes, which over the last 150 years has altered
the pre-existing natural environment of the
site,” says Hughes, “but indeed the marine
