309 Cherry St. (26s)

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Bioremediation advances mean that much can often be done onsite now, and the soil would not necessarily have to be moved. If it cannot be cleaned enough, another possibility would be what happened at Market Wharf: the site is capped with a veneer of clean fill, and the foundation built pretty much at the surface with only caissons for piles drilled into the ground as opposed to excavation for a garage.

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Yikes. Have we learned nothing from the Love Canal?

[Edward Skira]

Love Canal is a whole different story

[College Park]

Love Canal is a whole different story

Love Canal is a different story, but to own land overlaying contamination? If that lens of contamination moves over time into adjacent sites and causes harm, who would be responsible for compensating that harm?

I'm glad to see that a bioremediation process is in place: sound forward thinking. If there are chlorinated compounds involved, microbes to handle them are a home-grown Toronto technology (KB-1, a short form for the inventors nomenclature of kick-butt-1, or so I heard).

[Edward Skira]

People are buying at Market Wharf. Do you equate it with Love Canal?

[Xray_Crystal_Junkie]

Is there seriously a place (development?) called "Love Canal"? I'd do a google search of "Love Canal Toronto" but I'm scared of what the IT department would think about the results.

[Northern Light]

^^^^^

LOL


"Love Canal" is in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

This is the bio.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal

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Is there seriously a place (development?) called "Love Canal"? I'd do a google search of "Love Canal Toronto" but I'm scared of what the IT department would think about the results.

Read this (don't they teach this in schools anymore?): http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries...background.php

I'm sure the soil remediation methods for the Donlands and Portlands are sound, but I don't know the specifics and when I see something like "a veneer of clean fill" over contaminated soil, alarm bells start going off. Considering the history of environmental disasters and the legacy of cancer and birth defects from disasters like this, I think it's worth learning about.