CBRM receives hazardous materials assessment

Tenders soon to be issued for demolition of former post office building

Tenders will soon be issued for the demolition of the former Glace Bay post pffice.

Christina Lamey, spokeswoman for the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, said the municipality has received a hazardous materials assessment that identifies the materials involved.

Lamey said the municipality is now awaiting the demolition specifications from CBCL Ltd. engineering firm.

Once those specifications are received, they will be reviewed and tenders issued for hazardous materials abatement and removal of the building, she added.

After the former Glace Bay post office was identified as the best location for the new police station, Cape Breton-Canso MP Rodger Cuzner assisted by seeing the federal government hand over the building for the ceremonial sum of $1 in October 2017.

The former Canada Post building was built in 1960 and closed in May 2009 after air-quality tests detected airborne asbestos.

The test noted mould samples and an unacceptable level of airborne asbestos on the upper lever of the three-level building.

In an earlier story, Dist. 10 Coun. Darren Bruckschwaiger said it’s hoped to get more funding from the federal government to help with the cost removing contaminants.

The new east division police building expected to open this 2018 at a cost of $2.5 million.

A total of $625,000 has been allocated in the CBRM’s 201718 capital budget for plans, land purchase and start of construction.