Thursday, November, 08, 2012 - 3:03:31 PM
City approves $4.7 million for Sydenham-Pearl remediation
Staff Report
BRANT NES
The Sydenham-Pearl brownfield site will be cleaned over the next four years with $4.7 million in debenture financing approved by city council’s committee of the whole on Monday.
That dollar figure was reached following a two-phase environmental assessment at the former Crown Electric and Domtar-Northern Globe manufacturing sites at 17 and 22 Sydenham Street, respectively.
The assessment found petroleum hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds and heavy metal concentrations in the soil.
The remediation and subsequent “greening” of the former industrial lands would allow the six-acre site to be developed as parkland or housing.
— This is just another site that has been prevented from proceeding with natural soil remediation, by keeping the ground covered in concrete, and keeping the public locked out. It is so small that it would have been a perfect project for volunteers and Phytoremediation.
— This is a city that cannot allow gardeners, plants, or farmers, near it’s brownfields, for fear that politicians and staff, could miss out on a chance to spend huge gobs of tax-payer’s money, on their pre-qualified bidder friends.
Like or Dislike:
0 
1
— Is anyone else out there. We are going to have a party at The Brantford District Labour Centre Nov. 11th from 8;40 AM to 11;00 AM approximately. Brantford’s leading advocate of natural soil remediation (me) will be there to be slapped down in public by leading members of a famous political riding association.— Sean would do well to cover it, but that will never happen, so I am inviting you, dear reader.
Like or Dislike:
0 
1
— To come out and watch the festivities.
Like or Dislike:
1 
0