Dear Editor:
RE: Erin’s proposed sewage plant.
I hope more readers are making themselves aware of the potential costs to each home by doing a comparison with the disaster in Nobleton, which has a very similar population. Just Google Concerned Citizens Erin. Cost overruns are tremendous.
Erin’s costs (in my opinion) will be much higher, as I personally do not see any grant monies coming from a deficit-laden provincial and federal government. I feel that forcing residents with this proposal is basically subsidizing the financial wants and needs of developers who will pave the town over.
These developers should incorporate their waste systems into their own projects. A good example is Stanley Park and Centre 2000 that have their own systems. Heaven forbid, that might mean these developers will have to allocate some land for their own wastewater system and they miss out on building some of their cookie cutter homes!
Now, the lunacy of putting the effluent pipe on the west side of the Winston Churchill culvert which is Wellington County and releasing a possible 7.2 million litres daily across the border to Peel Region on the east side. This is into the pristine water that has a healthy brook trout population.
My concerns are also for the residents and people of Belfountain and south, who might have the river as their water source. I would like to know if this has the potential to contaminate wells and the local quality of the aquifer.
I cannot understand Peel Region officials allowing such a travesty. Also, I feel outflow readings are not accurate as a family of beavers could drastically change this flow in a couple of days. And they have done just that west of the 10th line bridge north of Bush St. This dam is just 30 meters upstream of the flow monitor station and now the dam has been breached which obviously has picked up in flow.
I have made contact with the Town of Erin, CVC and also MNRF was contacted and nobody knows who opened up the dam.
I sure hope opposition mounts against this pro-development council. Maybe, if we get lucky we will get our own Walmart and Home Depot! Not the legacy I want to leave for future generations.
Ken Cowling,
Erin