Both the Woolwich Observer and the Waterloo Region Record published stories about the proposed Elmira By-Pass yesterday. The Observer included four tiny maps of which the three depicting the three options on the east side of Elmira were indecipherable to me. The one on the west side was legible because it is so simple. At the south end of Elmira when heading north turn left (west) onto the Listowel By-Pass . Continue west until you hit Floradale Rd. and turn right (north) and continue through the round about at Church St. further north to Reid Woods Drive. Turn right (east) and proceed straight across to Arthur St. Bang you have by=passed Elmira. The gravel base of the roads are already in place plus there are no floodplains or major waterways to cross. there is already a concrete bridge across the Canagagigue on Reid Woods Dr. There are also no buildings or other encroachments along the way. This is a much easier route than the east side of Elmira where annual heavy flooding takes place.
Road rightaways are already established on the west side. They are not on large parts of the east side. It appears to some of us that half the reason for the east side By-Pass is to bury the legacy of mishandling and negligence resulting in DDT, Dioxins, PAHs, mercury and PCBs in the floodplains, creekbank soils and sediments in the bottom of the Creek. None of these dangerous toxins are on the west side of Elmira but in order to save both Uniroyal/Lanxess and our governments cleanup money they are going to continue their deceptive practices by pretending without proper scientific rigour that the area is not grossly contaminated. Shame on all of them.
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