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Home My WebLink About2022-06-13 Special General Government Committee Post-Meeting Agenda Date:June 13, 2022 Time:5:30 PM Location:Council Members (in Chambers or MS Teams) | Members of the Public (MS Teams) Inquiries and Accommodations: For inquiries about this agenda, or to make arrangements for accessibility accommodations for persons attending, please contact: Lindsey Patenaude, Committee Coordinator, at 905-623-3379, ext. 2106 or by email at lpatenaude@clarington.net. Alternate Format: If this information is required in an alternate format, please contact the Accessibility Coordinator, at 905-623-3379 ext. 2131. Audio/Video Record: The Municipality of Clarington makes an audio and/or video record of General Government Committee meetings. 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Pages 1.Call to Order 2.Land Acknowledgement Statement 3.Declaration of Interest 4.Presentations 4.1.Dave Hardy, President, Hardy Stevenson and Associates Limited, Executive Director, Institute for New Suburbanism, Regarding Port Granby Monitoring Program 3 4.2.Susan Bailie, Project Transition Manager, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Regarding Port Granby Monitoring Program 21 5.Adjournment Page 2 Monitoring Potential Offsite Effects of the Port Granby Facility on Lands to be Acquired by the Municipality of Clarington June 13, 2022 1Page 3 Outline 1.Port Granby Long-Term Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Facility 2.Municipality of Clarington’s Peer Review Team 3.Ongoing monitoring for off-site effects 4.Environmental Site Assessments on lands to be acquired by the Municipality of Clarington as a prudent request 2Page 4 Port Hope Area Initiative •Low-level contaminated soils and radioactive waste remediated in Port Hope and at the Port Granby site in Clarington •Decision to move the waste material in Port Granby to a new long-term low-level waste management facility north of Lakeshore Road •Facility is a CNSC Licensed site. Conditions of the Licence includes monitoring and an Annual Compliance Report. 3Page 5 4Page 6 Port Granby Project •PG WMF owned by the Government of Canada and operated by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), on behalf of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), a federal Crown corporation •Just over 1.3 million Metric Tons have been moved. 5Page 7 Legal Agreement •To establish the parameters of the clean up, both the municipalities signed a Legal Agreement with the Government of Canada in 2001. •The Legal Agreement specified that both municipalities would have funded staff and specialized consultants to assist with peer review support. •Municipal Peer Review Team (MPRT) is lead by Hardy Stevenson and Associates Limited (HSAL) 6Page 8 Municipal Peer Review Team •The purpose of the peer review process is to instill confidence and accuracy in the scientific findings over the course of the Port Hope and Port Granby Projects. •Independent research is not conducted by the MPRT. •Peer review team members have met with CNL monthly since project construction began (93 meetings to date). 7Page 9 Team Organization MPRT provides technical support to Clarington through the following disciplines: •nuclear and civil engineering, •contaminated soils remediation, •air quality assessment, •hydrogeology and ground water, •geology and soils science, •medicine and health, •shoreline engineering, •social and natural environmental sciences. 8Page 10 9Page 11 10Page 12 11Page 13 CNL Information Sharing Items discussed monthly: •Schedule Update •Construction & Remediation Works (PGWMF & LTWMF) •Dust & Noise Monitoring •Supporting Work •WWTP Progress & Schedule •Elliott Road Restoration, End Use, Lakeshore Rd Right-of-Way, Nichols Rd •End Use/ Site Restoration •Communications & Stakeholder Relations Update 12Page 14 13Page 15 Entering the Monitoring Phase Three Phases: •Phase 1: Securing Regulatory Approvals •Phase 2: –Construction of the PG LTWMF. –Remediation of PG WMF. –Transportation of LLRW from PG WMF •Phase 3: Long-term maintenance and monitoring of the PG LTWMF. The Port Granby WMF has been capped and is now entering the maintenance and monitoring phase 14Page 16 15Page 17 Ongoing Monitoring MPRT reviews the Annual Compliance Reports (ACR) •Compliance with the CNSC Waste Nuclear Substance License •Currently reviewing 2021 Annual Compliance Report •Questions raised by the MPRT on the 2019 and 2020 ACR have been resolved •Environmental monitoring includes off- site groundwater, dust, noise CNL presentation to follow will provide technical details of off site monitoring. 16Page 18 17Page 19 Conclusion •Monitoring will continue as the Port Granby Project enters Phase 3 •To date, there has been minimal off-site effects, occasional dust or noise exceedances without implications for chemical contaminated or radioactive soils •It would be prudent to request Phase 1 and 2 Environmental Site Assessments before the land transfer of surplus Port Granby Project Lands. 18Page 20 UNRESTRICTED 1 Port Hope Area Initiative Municipality of Clarington Special General Government Committee June 13, 2022 Port Granby Project Phase 3 Monitoring Page 21 UNRESTRICTED 2 Port Granby Engineered Aboveground Mound Layers Capping layer installation in progress July 2021 Capping layers in progress –October 2019 Page 22 UNRESTRICTED 3 Port Granby Engineered Storage Mound Complete October 2021 Page 23 UNRESTRICTED 4 Port Granby Waste Removal Complete –November 2020 FORMER WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY LAKE ONTARIO LONG-TERM WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY Lakeshore Road Remediation of ~1.3 million tonnes low -level radioactive waste September 2021 Page 24 UNRESTRICTED 5 ATMOSPHERIC Air quality& noise TERRESTRIAL Plants & wildlife habitat SOCIO-ECONOMIC Community life, heritage, Indigenous interests, traffic & transportation AQUATIC Water quality, flow and sediment quality GEOLOGY & GROUNDWATER Groundwater, storm water & waste water quality and flow, soil quality EA Follow-Up Programs Page 25 UNRESTRICTED 6 Environmental Monitoring Surface Water Soil and Groundwater Noise Dust Sediment and water quality Page 26 UNRESTRICTED 7 Environmental Monitoring –Port Granby Page 27 UNRESTRICTED 8 Dust Monitoring –Port Granby Page 28 UNRESTRICTED 9 Waste Water Treatment •East Gorge groundwater collection •Waste Water Treatment Plant: storage mound leachate, East Gorge groundwater collection •Plant output safely transported - licensed, offsite storage Environmental Monitoring •Air, water, groundwater, soil, plants, wildlife monitoring continues Continued Safety Oversight •Plans in place to ensure any event is properly managed •Minimize risk to people and environment Port Granby Phase 3 -Long-Term Monitoring LTWMF Monitoring •Site remains fenced •Mound surface, internal sensors •Grounds monitored, maintained Page 29 UNRESTRICTED 10 Thank You HISTORIC WASTE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE 25 Henderson Street, Port Hope, ON L1A 0C6 Tel: 905.885.0291 info@phai.ca PHAI.ca Page 30