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| Earth Tech awarded contract for major cleanup in Nova Scotia Earth Tech's Canadian operations have won a USD$26.3 million (CAD$30 million) contract with the Sydney Tar Ponds Agency (STPA) to design and oversee construction of a major contaminated waste cleanup at a former coke oven site in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Earth Tech, a business unit of Tyco International Ltd., and a global provider of consulting, engineering and construction services, will partner with local subconsultant CBCL, Ltd. on the project. The project will clean up the site of a former coke ovens plant and a tidal estuary known as the Sydney Tar Ponds, which were contaminated by runoff from the coke ovens. This contract continues a relationship Earth Tech built with the agency over the last year while preparing the preliminary engineering design for the USD$354 million (CAD$400 million) project. Earth Tech also assisted in the preparation of the project's environmental impact statement and took part in hearings last year by a joint, federal-provincial environmental review panel. Byproducts of coke production for an adjacent steel plant contaminated about 700,000 tons of marine sediments in a nearby estuary, and five million tons of soil underlying the coke plant. The coke ovens operated from 1901 to 1988. The affiliated steel plant closed in 2001. Cleanup work will begin this spring and will take about eight years. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |