Thu Nov 06, 2003

Little Contamination found at Harding

BY SUSAN GAMBLE
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

A two-part report on contamination at the Harding Carpets site on Morrell Street shows just two sites of concern.

The report, filed in 2000 with a Ministry of the Environment district office in Guelph, details an aboveground assessment of problems and potential contamination and then analyzes samples drawn from boreholes around die property. "Based on the information in the Phase 1 and 2 reports," said ministry supervisor John Cooke on Wednesday, "our assessment is that there's some groundwater contamination in the middle of the property, but it's a pocket of contamination within a 10-acre site."


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Harding "pretty benign"

BY SUSAN GAMBLE
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Environment reports that found little contamination at the former Harding Carpet factory in the mid-1990s are news to some officials. But developer Steve Charest who is set to take ownership of the 10acre site Nov. 14, said Wednesday that he knew what to expect before he made his offer to buy,

"We do our homework," Charest said.

One set of reports, developed by Harding in 1994 and 1995, was filed with the Ministry of the Environment in 2000. Charest says he has a more current. Phase 2 reports.

All the reports say essentially the same thing: there's a pocket of contamination in the middle of the one block Morrell Street site but, compared to other industrial sites, the contaminants are at low levels.


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