财产所有人适用于达特茅斯湾的填充哈利法克斯港

The federal government is seeking public feedback on a proposal to infill the Halifax Harbour at Dartmouth Cove, and the councillor and MP for the area aren’t impressed.

4197847 Nova Scotia Ltd., owned by Bruce Wood,appliedin March to fill its 2.7-hectare water lot, PID # 00114132 or 1 Parker St., with rock from excavation projects.According to物业评估服务公司，该物业于2021年4月以80万美元的价格出售。该编号的公司已成立了前一个月。该应用程序是在加拿大运输公司的导航保护计划下发布的，上周在线发布。

“项目区域将在局部发掘项目中填充大约99,700立方米（M3）的材料，包括大约41,900平方米的含硫化物的材料（即硫化材料（即黄铁矿板））和大约57,800平方米的非酸化岩石，”申请说。

这是用来建立附近国王码头开发区和哈利法克斯港的其他地区的填充物，例如贝德福德的米尔·湾（Mill Cove）和Fairview终端旁边的Africville。

“将通过串联卡车的末端倾斜来放置填充。达特茅斯湾的申请说：“挖掘机将用于将填充材料从现有的海岸线向西推入水块。”

“一个淤泥按窗帘将被安装ct Area prior to the commencement of in-water Project activities. Infilling activities will be visually monitored, and additional mitigation will be implemented as necessary in the event that a visible sediment plume migrates beyond the silt curtain. No dredging is expected to be conducted prior to infilling.”

The infilling will permanently displace the fish habitat in the area, but the applicant argues the existing habitat is “of relatively poor quality and low productivity.” The property owner is also applying under the Fisheries Act, and will develop a plan to offset the loss “through habitat restoration and enhancement.”

The property owner is proposing to build a temporary gravel access road to allow trucks to bring in the rock in. The work would start August 1, 2022 and last until August 1, 2028.

“The intention is for the infilled Project Area to provide enhanced waterfront access and land that will eventually enable future development,” the application says.

目前，沿着海湾的海滨有一条市政拥有的多用途路径，将旧渡轮路的底部连接到运河街，然后是金街，然后连接到奥尔德尼渡轮码头。

The design documents indicate two public benches along the path would be temporarily removed to make way for the access road, and the project area appears to encroach on the path.

尽管打算“最终实现未来的发展”。萨姆·奥斯汀（Sam Austin）表示，该物业将被划分为帕克兰（Parkland），这意味着它是不可开发的。

“To infill this, they’re going to get all the development rights of the Dartmouth Common,” Austin, the councillor for the area, said.

“It’s clearly not thought out. It’s either pyritic slate dump, speculation or probably, ‘Hey, I can do 1 and maybe I’ll 2.'”

Austin said the municipal pathway sits partially on an easement over the numbered company’s property. But elsewhere the proponent would have to cross municipal and Develop Nova Scotia land with the access road to get to the property. Austin hopes there’s a practical way HRM could stop the development, potentially by blocking that access. He said he’s working on a motion to bring to council regarding the project.

“只是用达特茅斯海滨转储坐下e, I mean, that’s not a plan. That’s not a good use for this,” Austin said.

Dartmouth-Cole Harbour MP Darren Fisher agrees.

“Dartmouth shouldn’t be a dumping ground for someone’s fill. From what I am seeing, there doesn’t seem to be a plan in place from the proponent, other than dumping pyritic slate and quarry rock into Dartmouth Cove over multiple years,” Fisher wrote in a statement to the Examiner.

“Unfortunately, a regulatory gap exists between all orders of government on these pre-Confederation water lots, and as we are seeing, more and more lot owners are infilling.”

费舍尔说，他无法干预批准过程，但他正在写信给联邦运输，渔业和海洋部长，环境和气候变化“呼吁对填充进行审查，以确保我们的水路得到更好的保护。”

“With increased development across HRM, we will see an increased need to sequester pyritic slate, and all orders of government should be at the table to come up with a proper plan and a solution for this fill, that makes sense for our communities,” Fisher said.

他鼓励人们提出他们的担忧。联邦政府接受有关该提案的评论at this linkuntil June 10 at 5am.

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