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"How Hamilton's Ghost Rivers Haunt City's New Development" [1]

"'Water always wins in the end': Lost rivers slow development and capture the imagination".

"Louie Santaguida's company is building a 30-storey condo tower in downtown Hamilton. And for a few months, he thought he had plans for its substructure nailed.

He'd already sold 70 per cent of the units, which include two-bedroom penthouses for $684,000. Then came an unexpected delay — an old stream under the future home of The Connolly.

"We're sitting on a former river basin from 10,000 years ago," Santaguida said in the fall. "We're overcoming geotechnical challenges. We've been doing that for the last three months." "

Samantha Craggs reports for CBC News January 7, 2017. [2]

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Source: CBC News [2], 01/16/2017
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-hamiltons-ghost-rivers-haunt-citys-new-development [2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/ghost-rivers-hamilton-1.3922966 [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/cities-towns [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81