MORE REGIONAL DRINKING WATER DECEPTION

I've posted here about the totally unacceptable and deceptive responses to three pages of technical questions which I sent to the Region of Waterloo via Woolwich Councillor Mark Bauman. I'll never do that again ie. send anything through that shyster Mark Bauman. He's got a real head problem; in other words it's gotten way too big for him and for the voters. He unecessarily wasted two months time before releasing the answers to me. Then I and all of CPAC/SWAT find out he had information regarding the flow of probably contaminated water into the Martin pond downgradient of Chemtura. Although it was my information directly to Mark that got him on that site, the jerk learned of a by-pass to fill the Martin pond with this probably contaminated water and did not tell CPAC/SWAT for six weeks.

Back to West Montrose water. I now have a report dated 2010 that says that the only well operating in West Montrose is WM4 the newest of the four wells. What the hell? The report is the Grand River Source Protection Area First Draft Assessment Report dated August 12,2010 page 3-9. Meanwhile throughout the Environmental Assessment and other reports we are constantly being told about iron contamination clogging pumps and screens. Therefore in my 3 pages of questions I specifically asked the question as to why they couldn't be cleaned. The response the Region gave me was that they "...are routinely cleaned and rehabillitated one to two times per year.". Really? Even though they aren't being used? Somebody is blowing big time smoke here folks.

The next point deals with "iron' contamination. Would the Region care to be a little more accurate here? Do they really mean iron bacteria which are the result of iron in the water and which are the cause of slime, discolouration and clogging of pumps.

Finally I've been doing more reading on Bedrock Aquifer quality in the Grand River valley. As already posted our neighbours north, south, east and west of West Montrose use Bedrock Aquifer water quite sucessfully whether small communities or larger such as Guelph and Cambridge. The Guelph Formation (central), Salina (west) and Amabel (Gasport) to the east all provide good quality and quantity of drinking water.

I wonder when or if the Region of Waterloo will get off their secrecy and deception kick. This is why citizens don't trust them on numerous other issues such as LRT. They quite simply lie to the citizens paying the freight.