PUBLICATIONThe Halifax Chronicle-Herald
DATE Friday July 9, 1999
PAGE A3
HEADLINE:
Company wins tender to define red zone around Sydney's toxic waste sites
SYDNEY - A $57,000 tender has been let to define a separation
zone around Sydney's infamous toxic waste sites.
Washburn and Gillis Associates Ltd. was awarded the project Thursday
by the Public Works Department to develop criteria needed for a
separation zone for a cleanup in and around the Muggah Creek
watershed.
The Joint Action Group made the recommendation several months ago
and gave a deadline of June 1 to establish the criteria.
"The study of separation zones will help resolve the issues
associated with on-site work affecting nearby property owners," JAG
chairman Dan Fraser said.
Separation zones were first endorsed in a Phase 1 site assessment
report that recommended residents of Whitney Pier streets like
Frederick Street, Curry's Lane, Victoria Road and Railway Street
should be evacuated. Those streets border the provincially owned
toxic coke ovens site.
The provincial government is in the process of buying out property
owners on Frederick Street and Curry's Lane to establish the first
of what are expected to be many similar red zones.
The study will be funded from the $62-million purse recently given
to JAG by the federal, provincial and municipal governments.
