Reef cleanup bogged down - Local funding key reason for delay

Construction design changes and a lack of local funding are being blamed for a big delay in the $90-million cleanup of toxic tar on Randle Reef in Hamilton Harbour.

A timetable presented at this time last year said the environmental assessment would be complete and tenders called by August, with construction starting in spring 2010.

Now, however, Environment Canada says it won't have the assessment and final design done until early spring.