The Port Hope ProjectThe
Project proposes to build a new long-term waste management facility at the
closed low-level
radioactive
waste management facility and adjacent property south of Highway 401 and
west of Baulch Road in the Municipality of Port Hope. Existing waste at the
site would be excavated and placed in a new, engineered aboveground mound.
Other historic low-level radioactive waste and specified industrial waste
from various sites in the urban area of Port Hope would be removed and
safely transported to the new facility. The facility is being designed to
safely manage a capacity of approximately 2 million cubic metres of waste
(including contingencies and daily cover materials) from within the
Municipality of Port Hope. Developing
the Port Hope solution
Seeking,
sorting and selecting the best alternative to resolve the  local
historic waste management problem in the Municipality of Port Hope began in
2002 with the launch of an Environmental Assessment (under the Canadian
Environmental Assessment Act process). On the table were two
community-developed concepts - one proposed by the former Township of Hope
in 1998, the other by the former Town of Port Hope in 1999. (The two
municipalities have since amalgamated). Each called for construction of a
new-engineered aboveground mound within its boundaries. In Port Hope the
plan was to build a facility on Highland Drive in an area where about a
third of the municipality’s low-level radioactive waste is temporarily
located. Hope Township’s proposal was to locate the facility at the
existing Welcome Waste Management Facility. After two years of extensive
community input and technical and environmental studies, the Low-Level
Radioactive Waste Management Office and the Port Hope Municipal Council
agreed to proceed with the best option - to consolidate all of the waste at
a single location at the site of the existing Welcome Waste Management
facility and adjacent auto-recycling yard.
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