The Cube
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If you have seen our Summer 2010 campaign around town to educate the public on Randle Reef ...our "Cube"... you have come to right place.
Randle Reef is a problem from our past. Located in the industrial corner of the Harbour, it’s a blob of coal tar dumped in the water before the 1960s and prior to pollution laws. It is the most contaminated site in the Harbour and the worst Canadian site of its kind in the Great Lakes.
The Cube represents one of 630,000 cubic metres of severely toxic coal tar sludge found in Randle Reef in Hamilton Harbour. This is enough to fill Copps Coliseum three times!!!!
The preferred clean‐up strategy is an on site containment
facility that will cap the contaminated sediment in Randle
Reef. At $105 million, the cost is to be split among federal and
provincial governments, and local stakeholders. We need our local and federal governments to step up to the plate and take action. We have waited far too long for the remediation process to start!
a) Read more in-depth information on Randle Reef and up to date info on the remediation timeline
b) Read the information put out by Environment Canada - “Cleaning up Randle Reef in Hamilton Harbour – Part of the Governement of Canada’s Action Plan for Clean Water”
c) Read info from the Hamilton Port Authority "Environment Overview - Randle Reef Contaminated Sediment Remediation Project.”
d)
Read this article from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency - “Randle Reef Contaminated Sediment Remediation Project.”
We suggest you write or call your representatives informing them of your interest in getting this project started immediately. Tell your representatives that you want Randle Reef cleaned up!
a) Contact your City Councillor and Mayor - Hamilton | Burlington
b) Contact your MPP and MPs
Blog about it,
tweet it, shout it from the roof tops! Let everyone know what is happening and help get Randle Reef cleaned up!
Information Flyer
You can also click here to read The Cube's information flyer to distribute to others.
BARC would like to thank our board member Erik Hess for constructing the cube and Megan Clark for painting it.
Thank you to the creative teams at MACU and Arcas for their creative cube design.
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