Arsenic is among the toxins that would be cleaned up at Lions Park in Port Hope.
CAO David Smith addressed council reporting that the toxins are indeed at levels that are dangerous to human health.
The waste is the result of radium and uranium processing in Port Hope between 1933 and 1988.
As a result, the Canadian Government created the Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) to address the clean up of low level radioactive waste.
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is implementing the initiative on behalf of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, a Crown corporation, to clean up the waste.
But Claire Holloway Wadhwani who represented the board of Forest for our Future, is critical of the apparent lack of concern for the trees that will be destroyed.
Remediation would include a restoration plan to replant on a 1 to 1 basis and require working with the public to ensure the park is designed to regenerate and enhance this public space.
If ignored now it could cost Port Hope nearly $30 million to clean up in the future.
(Written by: Joseph Goden)
