CONTAMINATION AT 401 SERVICE CENTRES

Last Tuesday's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Pit stops reopening soon". These two Service Centres just east of Cambridge closed in September 2011 and were to have been rebuilt and ready to go a year ago. Unfortunately but not surprisingly groundwater contamination under the former gas stations slowed the reopening by a year. That tells me that the gas and diesel tanks had probably been leaking for many years. What is even more worrisome is that wells on site had been drawing drinking water but were shortly after abandoned in favour of three kilometres of piping in order to obtain City of Cambridge water. The question in my mind is how long had that well water been unfit to drink and what kind of quality testing if any was being performed on it prior to the Service Centres closing.