KINGSTON REGIONAL SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE ARCHIVE
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The following is an excerpt from the Executive Summary Phase I And Phase II Environmental Site Assessment for the Large Venue Entertainment Centre. The summary can be downloaded using the links at right.
Water and Earth Science Associates Ltd (WESA) was retained by the Corporation of the City of Kingston to conduct a Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessment on the property located along the waterfront between Bay Street and the north end of D.S. Fluhrer Park in Kingston, Ontario.
PHASE I
The objective of the Phase I ESA was to provide an indication of actual or potential environmental liability associated with the property as a result of current and historical property uses and to highlight areas of focus for the Phase II ESA investigation. The Phase I ESA was performed in accordance with the substance and intent of the guideline document produced by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA Z768-01). As such, it is based on visual observations made during a site visit, interviews with persons familiar with the property, a review of historical records concerning the current and past uses of the property and requests for information filed with regulatory agencies. The Phase I ESA did not include any sample gathering, analysis or measurements and is not intended to be a definitive investigation of contamination or other environmental concerns at the property.
PHASE II
Ten borehole locations were investigated during the Phase II ESA work (see figures at end of executive summary). The hydrostratigraphy of the Site consists of a three layer system with an overburden/bedrock interface confined aquifer overlain by a clayey silt/silty clay aquitard, which is overlain by a relatively thin (less than 5 m) unconfined saturated fill unit. Hydraulic head measurements for these three wells indicate that groundwater flow at the overburden (clay)/bedrock interface is to the northeast at a hydraulic gradient of approximately 0.025. This flow direction seems at odds with the bedrock surface contours, which are nearly orthogonal to the direction of groundwater follow at this interface. The unconfined fill layer is water saturated below a depth of 1 to 2 metres and serves as the primary shallow groundwater zone. The construction dewatering activities in this area at the time of sampling may have been influencing the direction of shallow groundwater flow to the southwest and west rather than east, which would be intuitively expected. The maximum elevation of the water table in the southern portion Environmental Site Assessment – Proposed LVEC Development, Kingston, Ontario Final Report of the Site (Anglin Parking Lot) was 75.003 (MW9) as measured on January 28, 2005. The maximum elevation of the water table on this date in the northern and central portions of the Site was 75.025 (MW1-2). The mean elevation of Lake Ontario is 74.5 masl. A very low vertically downward hydraulic gradient of 0.001 and 0.003 upward was determined.
