Because of the close proximity of the Grand River and flood plain, it can not be used for any sort of overnight accommodation.

There are limitations on what the MEGHQ could be used for today. room that opens onto a lawn leading to the river. Today, washrooms and several smaller rooms remain as well as a large 1,600 sq.

The 10 inch thick concrete walls and roof give it a nuclear fall out rating of 500 (the radiation inside the structure was 1/500 what it would be outside the structure).

There were women's and men's dormitories, toilet and shower facilities, a kitchen, operations room, lecture room and decontamination areas.

It could house about 40 individuals for several weeks.It was built to be self sufficient with its own sewage and water systems and generator for electricity.Mounded earth structure was built into the landscape to be inconspicuous.structure is next to the Grand River on approximately 1.5 acres of land. To go directly to the survey please click here: Adaptive-reuse-survey The Region is looking for ideas from the community about how this unique structure, in a beautiful setting, could be adapted for modern uses. Since then, it has been used in training exercises and by community groups, but- has been vacant since 2017 due to the presence of asbestos and mold within the building. Luckily, we never needed to use the bunker for its intended purpose and it was 'decommissioned' in 1992. In 1966, at the height of the Cold War, Waterloo County built a Municipal Emergency Government Headquarters (MEGHQ), a fall out shelter to house the people they felt they needed (government officials, engineers, etc.) to keep the government going in the event of a nearby nuclear attack. 'There is a nuclear bunker in our community?! Why haven't I heard of it?!' This project supports the Region of Waterloo's strategic focus area(s) :

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