No, it isn’t spawning season for turtles of the Teenage Mutant Ninja variety. And it’s not a dump of flat green beer leftover from St. Patrick’s Day either.
A neon-green substance spilling into the ocean, spotted by West Vancouver residents near 18th Street and Marine Drive, is actually tracer dye.
The municipality’s utilities department conducted a dye test on a storm culvert to determine the path of flow, said district spokesperson Carrie Gadsby.
“The dye is environmentally friendly and will disperse,” she said.
Bright green dye is common to test waterway flows, and follows Environmental Protection Agency standards. It takes around two days to break down via exposure to ultraviolet light from the sun.
While this not-so-secret ooze isn’t radioactive, contaminated waterways should be reported to the Report All Poachers and Polluters hotline at 1-877-952-7277.
