{"id":7735,"date":"2024-08-28T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7735"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:58:38","slug":"fire-ravaged-property-in-downtown-liverpool-cleaned-up-this-week-after-asbestos-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/08\/28\/fire-ravaged-property-in-downtown-liverpool-cleaned-up-this-week-after-asbestos-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleanup begins at razed Liverpool property after asbestos found"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An asbestos abatement crew cleans up the site at 89 Main St. in Liverpool on Wednesday. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

An abandoned property in downtown Liverpool destroyed by fire in the spring is finally being cleaned up.<\/span><\/p>\n

The historic and unoccupied Hendry house at 89 Main St. was leveled in the May 13 blaze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Liverpool Fire Department referred it to the RCMP for investigation. The RCMP declared it suspicious<\/a> and asked the public to come forward with any information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An RCMP spokesman told QCCR in July that officers have closed the file for now, because there was insufficient evidence to keep the investigation open.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fire services from around Queens County and RCMP officers responded to the fire at 4:40 a.m. on May 13. Nobody was injured.<\/span><\/p>\n

On June 11, the Region of Queens declared the property dangerous and unsightly<\/a> and ordered owner Rosemarie Jacob to clean it up, or the region would do it at her expense. Jacob didn\u2019t appeal the order, so the region began the process to clean up the site.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayor Darlene Norman said Wednesday that initial testing found that there was asbestos in the siding of the house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The region hired Asbestos Abatement Limited in Dartmouth to do the work. Norman said the company expects to have everything cleaned up by the end of the week.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey say they\u2019ll be finished by Friday,” Norman said. “The material is being deposited at another facility in Nova Scotia that accepts this material.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe company indicated that they would have both the asbestos-containing materials removed, other debris on the property removed and the building foundation removed. … <\/span>It is being done so that\u2019s the important thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Norman said the company has assured municipal officials there is no danger to nearby residents from the asbestos on site.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cost of the cleanup isn\u2019t known yet. But the mayor said it would be added as a lien to the owner\u2019s taxes this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c(It) would be payable in 2025. And if at that time, the taxes are not paid in full, including the lien, then you would go to our policy regarding uncollected taxes. I believe one year of unpaid taxes and then the tax sale process would start.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The property had been unoccupied for some time before the fire. And the owner had been difficult to reach, but Norman said the municipality was finally able to find her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Norman said she\u2019s happy to see the cleanup underway. And while she won\u2019t be running for re-election, she said a future council may decide to try to do something with the property once it\u2019s cleaned up.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I know many people have been wanting that corner widened. There are some people who want it left historically the way it is. But there’s lots of vocies from people who work at Queens General (Hospital), from people trying to get 18-wheelers around that corner, there’s going to be a huge amount of housing development that’s going to require vehicles going that way, but that will be future decisions by a future council. But at this time, our main goal is to have that corner cleaned up so people can be free of the black tarps and the fencing and the things that are there at this point in time.”
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Norman added that because the cleanup cost will be applied to the property owner\u2019s taxes, the region likely won\u2019t release the figure because of privacy concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n

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An abandoned property in downtown Liverpool destroyed by fire in the spring is finally being cleaned up. The historic and unoccupied Hendry house at 89 Main St. was leveled in the May 13 blaze.\u00a0 The Liverpool Fire Department referred it to the RCMP for investigation. The RCMP declared it suspicious and asked the public to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2327,2583,2584,2582,79,2585,182,2334,39,180,94,24,2329],"class_list":["post-7735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-89-main-street","tag-asbestos","tag-asbestos-abatement-limited","tag-dangerous-and-unsightly","tag-darlene-norman","tag-dartmouth","tag-fire","tag-house-fire","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-fire-department","tag-rcmp","tag-region-of-queens","tag-rosemarie-jacob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7742,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions\/7742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}