Call for clean swimming water in Vancouver's False Creek falls flat

Pollution levels at the east end of False Creek are almost quadruple safe levels, a year after Vancouver city council passed a motion to make the waterway swimmable by this summer.
The concentration of animal or human fecal contamination registered at 776 in False Creek East last week, about four times the level of 200 E. coli per 100 ml of water considered safe for swimming, according to latest Vancouver Coastal Health test numbers.
Scenes from False Creek as the City of Vancouver issues a week