Outdoor grow-op busted on Mount Seymour
Members of North Vancouver RCMP's bike section stand among the 300 marijuana plants they discovered on Mount Seymour.
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By Rebecca Aldous - North Shore Outlook
Published: August 12, 2009 1:00 PM
Updated: August 12, 2009 2:01 PM
Updated: August 12, 2009 2:01 PM
This week North Vancouver RCMP were busy hacking down 300 marijuana plants discovered in an outdoor grow operation on Mount Seymour. The plot, set deep in the mountain’s forest, was discovered by a passing helicopter. The people aboard the helicopter marked the global positioning coordinates and took aerial photos. On Tuesday, the department’s bike section hiked into the forest to find the grow-op. After bushing whacking through the woods, police finally found the elaborate operation. More than a kilometre’s worth of gravity-fed water hoses ran through the plants, with electronic timers scheduling watering. A helicopter removed the hoses, chemicals and garbage. The bust was the largest in the bike section’s history.
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