The Ministry of Environment is assessing whether 30 barrels of drug-making waste dumped into a Walnut Grove creek did damage to the fish-bearing waterway on Tuesday morning.
Resident in the area of 102B Avenue and MacKinnon Road, near the Fort Langley Golf Course, awoke to plastic and metal pails lying in the nearby creek and red liquid spilling out of some of the lids, said one neighbour.
There was also bags of chemical powder.
The Langley RCMP called Hazco, a hazardous clean-up company, to come remove the barrels, many of them full with an unknown liquid.
The pails were likely full of the byproducts of a meth-making lab but police wouldn't confirm what it was.
Drug lab waste has been dumped in ditches and fields all over Langley over the past decade.
Any meth-making lab produces a lot of toxic waste that is discarded.
Among the items used to make crystal meth and ecstasy are methylamine hydrochloride, iodine and red phosphorus.
If dumped, this can go into waterways.
The liquids are extremely toxic and fatal to wildlife and fish.
