Don't usually put an urgent here, but I need some information in the next twenty-four hours. Does anyone here know anything about piano-making? I am fighting a big condo development for which there has been no environmental assessment, and it turns out that the history of the area shows that there was a big piano factory on the site for at least 50 years, right by a railroad track (that is another issue, but we have covered that). What kind of chemicals would be needed to make pianos, and would have been on the site? My suspicion is that the site is deeply contaminated. The first thing that comes to mind is wood treating (though maybe it was done off site), but I know nothing about piano making. Mudcatters know everything -- can anyone help?

yours,

Peter T.