Dear Editor:
Last spring on St. David St. N. in Fergus, construction was started. Imagine my surprise when a disintegrating tire was unearthed.
When was this tire from? A year, two years or maybe 30 or more? The construction company tossed it on the heap of earth. It was tossed back into the hole when they finished that spot of construction.
On Sept. 10 the construction company opened a hole on the corner of St. Patrick and St. David. It was deep and it was about 15 feet long. One man was cleaning up the area by hand. A plastic garbage bag, coffee cups and wrappers. He proceeded to toss it all in the hole – almost on top of a worker. That’s okay, it would not have hurt the worker, he had a safety vest on.
There were workers sitting on a mound of earth with safety vests on. Maybe assign some of them to clean up garbage and not to throw it into the construction site?
By the way, there are so many construction sites going on in Centre Wellington. I wonder how much garbage is going into the ground? Mayor, council members, construction companies and people in general: do better, clean up your act and use garbage cans.
Lucy Dyment,
Fergus