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Waste search: Site superintendent Peter Graham checks work yesterday on a section of sidewalk in Scarborough being torn up in an effort to locate contaminated soil
Waste search: Site superintendent Peter Graham checks work yesterday on a section of sidewalk in Scarborough being torn up in an effort to locate contaminated soil

Waste search: Site superintendent Peter Graham checks work yesterday on a section of sidewalk in Scarborough being torn up in an effort to locate contaminated soil

Date9/28/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Waste search: Site superintendent Peter Graham checks work yesterday on a section of sidewalk in Scarborough being torn up in an effort to locate contaminated soil.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0012552F
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