Sydney Tar Ponds Upstream from the Sydney tar ponds, and the root of all it's problems over the past eighty years, is a 51 acre coke oven plant, steel plant and an industrial dump, The coke oven was home to a coal refinery which turned coal in to useful substances such as benzene, toluene, kerosene, naphthalene, and tar. Although the plant is now abandoned, these hazardous substances remain. Under the plant is 160 kilometers of busted pipes …showed first 75 words of 584 total…

…showed last 75 words of 584 total…that are are between six and nine times the legal limit in Canada. Works Cited Tar Ponds History, Dr. Judith M. Newman, 2002 Http://www.lupinworks.com/lct/lct98/tarponds/history.htm Atlantic Green Lane - Environment Canada, 2002 Http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/epb/envfacts/pah.html Sydney Tar Ponds Facts Sheet, Sierra Club of Canada, 1998 Http://www.web.net/~sierra/stp/stp-factsheet.html Tar Ponds Horror Http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2727/frank.htm