What areas have been sampled?
The Ministrys 2001 survey focused on taking samples from areas commonly used by people – especially children – such as public parks and beaches, schools, day care centres and residential areas. Efforts were focused on the City of Greater Sudbury and in the three industrial centres of Copper Cliff, Coniston and Falconbridge. The 2001 survey resulted in over 8,000 soil samples taken from hundreds of locations. In conjunction with the Ministry survey, Golder Associates collected soil samples in and around the Town of Falconbridge, and Laurentian University collected samples near the industrial lands of Inco Ltd. and Falconbridge Ltd., as well as in more remote areas around Sudbury, to help define the extent of elevated metals and arsenic in soil.
