Could sewage spill lead to more demolition extras?
Just weeks after presenting city officials with a bill for almost $250,000 for demolition extras at its Colborne Street site, AIM Environmental could be reaching for the invoice paper again after a sewage spill at the site caused them further delays.
AIM Environmental dropped a manhole cover into a sanitary manhole on Water Street and caused a sewer main stoppage around 2 p.m. Thursday.
The contractor reported the accident to the city when the manhole filled with sewage, began overflowing onto the street, and entered a nearby storm catchbasin.
In an email to councillors and senior staff , Terry Spiers, director of environmental services, said pollution control inspectors went to the site and immediately reported the incident to the Ministry of the Environment’s Spills Action Centre.
AIM Environmental brought in equipment to remove the manhole cover from the flooded chamber to relieve the stoppage while public works staff went in to assist, Spiers said.
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