MORE ON VICTORIA PARK LAKE

There was another article in the K-W Record last Tuesday titled "Victoria Park lake project short of funds". As titled this article focuses on some financing problems associated with the project. At the same time the writer provides some interesting environmental information. There is 60,000 tonnes of contaminated sediment and 25,000 tonnes of native soil below the sediment to be removed. The contaminated sediment will be sent to the Regional Landfill on Erb St. for $30 per tonne while the native soil will go to the same place for only $5 a tonne. The efficacy of the higher fee for contaminated soils could be debated either way. The bottom line is that this landfill should never have been sited beside and above the St.Agatha Aquifer in the first place. It is probably far too late to close the barn door now, but somehow still adding any level of contaminated materials to this landfill seems to me to be more than pushing our luck.