Cache Creek Project (2005 – in progress)

Zeigler is also working on a project titled Hidden Sites, of which the Cache Creek Project forms a portion and will include a small series of digital images in addition to a video projection. The video projection focuses on the transfer trucks that carry the Metro Vancouver garbage six hours to the Cache Creek Sanitary Landfill located approximately six hours north east of Vancouver on the Bonaparte River.

A large portion of the Metro Vancouver's garbage is trucked from transfer stations in the lower mainland to the Cache Creek Sanitary Landfill that is scheduled to run out of space by late 2009. The six-hour journey one way that trucks travel back and forth between Cache Creek and Vancouver essentially follows the same route of the major Fraser River salmon migrations. The fish in the Fraser, and the trucks on the road along side the Fraser, both go north to the Thompson River. The roads then branch off and follow smaller rivers beyond, such as the Bonaparte River in the area of Cache Creek, that historically has had salmon migrations that are now threatened.

A site, such as the Cache Creek Sanitary Landfill, “hidden” from the vast majority of its users, is linked through the flow of water and the migration of salmon to other hidden sites such as the fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago. Salmon smolts leaving the Fraser River go north along the BC coast toward Alaska and on their way they pass by the Broughton Archipelago.