INNOVATION November-December 2012

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Challenging Park Project Re-connects Community with the Waterfront

Remediation of the industrial site involved the containment of contaminants such as chlorinated solvents below the riverbed.

Suzanne Morphet

As Harald Kullmann PEng flips through a collection of photos from the Westminster Pier Park Project, he stops at one with an odd juxtaposition of subjects. It shows a drill rig sitting underneath a big, beautiful, timber- framed building during the final months of work on the $25 mil- lion project to remediate and restore the historic waterfront site. “Ordinarily your final monitoring well would have been put in over a year prior to that,” explains Kullmann, Senior Project Manager, Ports and Harbours, for WorleyParsons Canada Services, the company hired by the City of New Westminster as lead consultant. But on this project, there was no time to allow one piece of the puzzle to be finished before the next one began, which explains why the workers in the photo look a little uneasy. “Everybody’s praying that the mast on the drill rig doesn’t damage the tim- ber frame,” says Kullmann matter-of-factly. “It’s all high-quality, stained Western Red Cedar.”

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