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Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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Port Hope and the surrounding communities are part of Northumberland county. Each town has a population under 20,000 people and boast some of the north shore’s most historic downtowns. Port Hope is home to a number of nuclear-related industries, which have historically contributed to unique water quality problems in the area. Port Granby radioactive waste site, just outside of Port Hope, is actually located in Durham Region. Information about this leaking waste site may be found in both categories on this web site. Port Hope Harbour is one of Lake Ontario's "Areas of Concern."
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Council here is asking the province to make a commitment to municipalities and conservation authorities to pay for the source water protection plans that are being created by area source water protection committees.
Council passed a resolution introduced by Coun. Larry Ellis calling on the province to be responsible for "all future costs" associated with implementing and... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Environmental Law
Ontario
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Quinte Region
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The Ministry of the Environment says it will consider a number of factors before deciding whether to lay charges against Northumberland County for the June 28 road tar, or emulsion, spill that occurred on residential properties and into a creek that empties into Rice Lake.
"We're looking to assess the environmental impact," said Jim Martherus, a senior environmental officer... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Environmental Law
Peterborough & Region
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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Two streams, a number of private properties on Rice Lake and the Harwood Fish Culture Station were affected by an oil-like substance following roadwork and a rainstorm last week in Harwood, according to various official reports.
Remedial work by Northumberland County was still being done July 7, a week later, the neighbour who reported the spill to the environment ministry... (more)
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Fish
Peterborough & Region
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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After much discussion Northumberland County council put an upset limit of $30,000 to hire the only company that responded to its request for proposal (RFP) to peer review the federal government's remediation plan of a Port Hope dump site containing low-level radioactive waste.
While 17 consultants downloaded the county documents, only Stantec Consulting Ltd. provided a bid... (more)
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Drink
Fish
Nuclear Industry
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Waste Management
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-Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority director of watershed services Mark Peacock told Port Hope council Tuesday evening about some of the early results from a Ganaraska Assessment Report carried out under the Drinking Water Source Protection Act for Clean Water.
The report deals with studying and developing policies for assessing and protecting drinking water quality and... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Drink
Environmental Law
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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The local health unit will no longer check the water quality for swimming at the Gore's Landing wharf owned by Hamilton Township.
But councillors want more information and are asking that the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit send a delegation to an upcoming council session for to explain the details, township administrator Betty McIntosh said in an... (more)
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Environmental Law
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Swim
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The Trent Conservation Coalition Source Protection Committee and the Quinte Conservation Source Protection Committee are inviting public comment on their respective Draft Proposed Assessment Reports. These reports provide the scientific foundation for the development of source protection plans.
The public is invited to learn more at a number of public meetings.
For the... (more)
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Drink
Environmental Law
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Quinte Region
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Between 3,000 and 3,500 cubic metres of sand will be dredged from the central area of the harbour entrance just before it splits into the canal leading to the yacht basin and the channel leading up the Ganaraska River, parks director Trevor Clapperton says.
The area will be excavated to a depth of 2.5 metres.
With the exception of a few places, Clapperton says, the areas... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Shipping, boating & navigation
Swim
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