closed their Har-Tru courts in anticipation of test results<\/a>, while\u00a0the Ottawa Tennis Club and Rideau Sports Centre kept their courts open.<\/p>\nTesting has revealed “no trace of asbestos” in the clay at the Elmdale Tennis Club, according to a letter it\u00a0sent its members Tuesday night, and it plans to reopen Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Tennis Centre West Ottawa and the Ottawa Tennis Club both confirmed to CBC that tests performed on the stored clay and court surfaces “have come back negative for the detection of asbestos.” The Tennis Centre West Ottawa reopened its courts Wednesday.<\/p>\n
However, in a letter to members, the Ottawa Tennis Club noted it is “not permitted to use [its] stored bags of clay.” It is unable to patch the courts until it finds a new “supplier\/product,”\u00a0which it is actively searching for, the letter continued.<\/p>\n
CBC reached out to inquire why it is\u00a0not permitted to use the clay, and to the Elmdale Tennis Club and Tennis Centre West Ottawa about whether or not they\u00a0will continue to use their bagged clay product.<\/p>\n
CBC has reached out to the Rideau Sports Centre\u00a0to inquire about its courts.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Ottawa Public Health told CBC\u00a0by email on Wednesday\u00a0that the agency\u00a0is working with “provincial and federal partners to assess the issue” and for now there is “no evidence to suggest a risk to public health.”<\/p>\n
“Consequently, OPH has not issued any specific guidance or restrictions to area tennis facility operators,” they wrote.\u00a0“OPH is continuing to monitor and would provide further updates should new information arise.”<\/p>\n
Har-Tru told CBC over the weekend that it had hired an independent lab to review samples and pending testing it anticipated\u00a0a temporary hold on the import, sale, and use of Har-Tru materials in Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Har-Tru is dedicated to public safety and delivering the highest quality products for tennis players in Canada,” the company said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Ottawa tennis clubs say there was no asbestos found in the clay on their bagged product or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-67239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}