O.M.B. MEDIATION BETWEEN SAFETY-KLEEN & YOURS TRULY

The Ontario Municipal Board is holding a private (I presume) mediation meeting this Thursday, 10:30 am. January 6/11 at the Woolwich Township Hall. The idea is to see if we can find some common ground regarding the zone change permitting S.K.'s expansion onto the former Forwell's gravel pit property. S.K. are building a parking lot and a warehouse on property which has long been contaminated with oils and solvents. These oils and solvents (& P.C.B.'s) are courtesy of former waste lagoons both on and off the S.K. property. The P.C.B.'a plus other evidence may also indicate leakage from tanks and tank farms on site. The possibility of common ground is based on everyone having access to the same technical reports. They indicate the probability of some or all of these former lagoons not having been remediated. Also the testimony by S.K. at Woolwich Council was that while they believed that some of these lagoons had been remediated already, they do not have any data, photographs or other evidence to back up their position.

This site is approximately 750 yards up gradient from the Grand River as well as from former Municipal wells, K70 & K71 (K for Kitchener). Safety-Kleen used to be famous for the soothing odours which they discharged to the Breslau community.