5,000 TONNES OF CONTAMINATED SOIL

Today's K-W Record (pg. B2) claims that 5,000 tonnes of soil contaminated with "metal shavings" were removed earlier this month from Firth Brown Tools at Dundas St. and McLaren Ave. in Cambridge. This at best is deception and BS and at worst just plain insulting to the intelligence of the Record's readers. Nobody excavates and removes 5,000 Tonnes (2,200 lbs/tonne) due to clean metal shavings ie. steel mixed in with soil. At a minimum these metal shavings were covered in oil or other lubricant and at the worst they are a complete red herring hiding solvent or other serious contamination. Come on K-W Record, please give us the whole unvarnished story.