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Originally Posted by Doug
Deerfoot Meadows is built on the site of a former Cominco Fertilizer (now Agrium) plant that shut down in 1987. The site was contaminated, mostly by heavy metals in the groundwater. I don't think there was any sanitary landfill. The hillside was moved mostly to bring the site above floodplain and to stabilize the hill itself. Before becoming home to a fertilizer plant, the site was wetland and no much higher than the river. Portions of the drainage system are still visible east of Deerfoot. The underpass under Deerfoot was originally a bridge over a drainage canal.
I'm not sure about the Blackfoot Trailer park, but the back nine on Maple Ridge golf course are built on landfill.
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I seem to recall the wreckage from the general hospital demolition was trucked to the deerfoot meadows site as well, for some reason. I might be wrong.