Clean Harbors has decided to redirect hazardous Love Canal waste to other facilities instead of its St. Clair Twp. disposal site.
In a letter to Mayor Steve Arnold, Director of Environmental Compliance Michael Parker says the company is taking the initiative to make alternative disposal arrangements for the Glen Springs, New York remediation project waste, utilizing its network of incineration and landfill disposal assets in the United States.
Parker says the company is working closely with Glen Springs Holdings, the site owner and operator, to develop the necessary transportation and logistics plans to redirect the remediation waste to another facility, within the company's comprehensive treatment, storage and disposal network.
Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley welcomes the fact the company has retreated.
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Bradley had called for a special meeting of Lambton County Council to discuss concerns about the disposal.
He said many people, both locally and nationally, have contacted his office about the estimated 80 truckloads of contaminated soil, originally from the infamous Love Canal NY site, being shipped here.
The 1978 environmental disaster in the community of Love Canal is considered one of the worst in America’s history with toxic chemicals from a dump site making their way into homes and onto school yards in record rainfall.
