The collapse of the dam at the gold and copper mine is considered one of the largest environmental disasters in provincial history.
VICTORIA — Fifteen charges under the federal Fisheries Act have been laid against Imperial Metals Corp. more than a decade after a tailings pond collapsed the Mount Polley mine, spilling more than 20 million cubic metres of waste water into B.C. Interior waterways.
“These agencies have been working together as the Mount Polley Integration Investigation Task Force,” the service says. A report from an independent expert panel released in 2015 concluded the key reason for the dam's failure was the design of the dam. It says engineers failed to recognize that the dam was "susceptible to undrained failure" when subject to the stresses associated with the embankment.
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