LIARS CAN FIGURE & FIGURES CAN LIE - WEST MONTROSE YOUR WATER IS STILL KILLING YOU

Yesterday I phoned Woolwich Township Staff as the ad in the local paper suggested in order to obtain copies of the eight Woolwich Township Drinking Water Annual Reports. Staff were all courteous and professional and in no time at all I was rephoned and advised that as requested my copies were available for pickup. So far so good. I picked up the eight reports and within 60 seconds knew that what I had was garbage. Yes I said garbage.

For example of the five pages presented as the West Montrose drinking water system; two and a half pages have no data. Yes they have the parameters allegedly being reported on, but no data presented. Advising me and others that this data is available on the Region's website does not cut it. Are these mickey mouse "drinking water reports " going to be presented to Council? if so then the plausible deniability is built in. They tell you essentially nothing. Even the fuller reports for the eight systems in Woolwich Township that are on the Region's website are inadequate but nothing compared to the garbage the Township are handing out.

I went through this entire exercise a year ago with Councillors Bauman and B. Bryant. They sent a letter off to the Region with a list of questions. Those questions were not honestly or accurately responded to. The two worst areas in Woolwich according to what information is available on these inadequate reports is West Montrose by far, followed by one of the water systems in Maryhill. I have grave concerns with Heidelburg due to former mayor Bill Strauss's former gas station but much more data needs to be released to the public.

The longterm issue in West Montrose was supposed to have been remedied by running a pipeline from Conestogo over to West Montrose. When the hell is that happening? West Montrose has the most bacterial contaminated raw water in the Region of Waterloo due to both the nearby Grand River but also due to the location of their septic systems. That's right folks you've got both Total coliforms and E.-Coli in your raw water. This is totally contrary to the recommendations of the Justice O'Connor Report into the Walkerton tragedy.

The Region to avoid people dying from E.-Coli in West Montrose have been hammering the raw water with chlorine to the point that chlorine by-products such as NDMA (possibly), Tri Halo Methanes (THMs) absolutely and excessive Chloramines routinely are threatening the health of residents. West Montrose you are one human error away from lifelong illness or death and to date those errors have occurred but been apparently caught in time. What I also don't understand is how your water can be so heavily chlorinated when so much of it last year was brought in by tanker truck to fill up your reservoir and presumably reduce the quantity of contaminated raw water requiring treatment.

This is a disgrace and needs to be addressed before Woolwich has yet another water disaster. I will be sending this post to each and every Woolwich Councillor immediately.