03/09/2023 Canada (Canadà) Ontario, Niagara-on-the-Lake
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law and/or enforcement agency for assistance”.
By Kris Dube, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Niagara-on-the-Lake Local
Initiative Reporter
New information from the federal government has come forward about the history of a property in Niagara-on-the-Lake where there is a potential risk for unexploded ordnance. And it appears that risk is here to stay. The Department of National Defence told The Local that it will be impossible to determine if there are unexploded military devices within two sewage lagoons that are part of a former water treatment plant that sits in the vicinity of a field formerly used as a military training ground. The properties were part of a recent report considered by Niagara Region’s public works committee, asking that the federal government assist financially with the clean-up of the property, but locals who remember the history of the site said they thought it had already been cleaned up, and one group is trying to get it open to the public as greenspace. The region has been leasing the property from Parks Canada since it built the first Lakeshore Road sewage treatment plant, decommissioned when the new one was built on property beside it, also belonging to Parks Canada. Regional staff are dealing with what was news to them — that they are now responsible for cleaning up unexploded ordnance. The DND told The Local that the lagoons on that property are the only piece of the area that needs attention — and that they can’t be remediated of any possible explosives.
Mounties are reminding anyone who comes across explosives or live ammunition to call police for assistance and to not handle them yourself.
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