GREAT CANADIAN PROJECTS
The Goose Bay Remediation
Project is a multi-year, multi-million-
dollar environmental
program for the Department of
National Defence. It is centred around
a storied Second World War airbase in
Newfoundland and Labrador known as
5 Wing Goose Bay.
One of the remediation contracts at 5
Wing Goose Bay, which was built in 1941
and is still in use, involves cleaning up an
old dump used by the base that’s located
near the remote community of Happy
Valley-Goose Bay in central Labrador.
Over the years, various waste mate-rials
including domestic garbage, con-struction
debris, barrels containing a
range of products ( fuels, lubricating
materials, pesticides, etc.) and even dis-carded
heavy equipment have piled up
at the site.
At a historic airbase in Newfoundland
and Labrador, a unique environmental
containment system called the Waterloo
Barrier® is being used to entomb decades
of domestic and industrial waste
By Mark Halsall
PHOTOS COURTESY OF C3 ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITED
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