This is called the Sandhill and it is just that. When the glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, they left behind this huge pile of sand and gravel. What a bonus when you are building a complete town from scratch. This has now brought a new industry to town, Cascadia, which plans to ship up to four millions tones of sand and aggregate a year to California. Because of the size of the deposit, this means close to a 25 year life for the business. They are setting up now and should employ up to 45 people. It doesn't look that big from the bridge over the Kitimat River, a half a mile away, but when you drive by, it towers above you.
We walked from the trailer park across the bridge over the Kitimat river to service center and this is taken from the bridge. Radley park is on the right, the campground originally built by the Gyro Club. You can see where a 50 foot section of the bank was swept into the river and many tall trees went with it.
We walked from the trailer park across the bridge over the Kitimat river to service center and this is taken from the bridge. Radley park is on the right, the campground originally built by the Gyro Club. You can see where a 50 foot section of the bank was swept into the river and many tall trees went with it.
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