3RD DAY (ie. Thurs.) OF THE HUNDER PIT O.M.B. HEARING

Mr. Gastmeyer (acoustical engineer) was back on the stand on behalf of the Hunder Development. He agreed that crushing at the Hunder Pit should not be concurrent with crushing going on at the Jigs Hollow Pit. Also it was agreed that crushing could not run simultaneously with excavating at the Hunder Pit during some of the different phases. Finally it was also understood that the 45 decibel noise criteria would also be breached in some phases (ie.geographic locations) of the operation if more than two loaders were running simultaneously. According to Mr. Gastmeyer "The co-ordination can happen." between the two neighbouring pits. The Board was also told that the preferred traffic route was south on Katherine St. with up to ten trucks per hour and no noise mitigation required. Personally I find these restrictions ridiculous and I doubt any operator will agree to operate under them. Either that or they will only be followed for the first five minutes of the pit being opened and then ignored.

Woolwich Township had a company called Valcoustics do their noise peer review for them. The gentleman involved was a Mr. Emojano sp.??. His peer review contradicts Mr. Gastmeyer's testimony and evidence. Mr. Gastmeyer also responded to a critique by a participant, namely a Mrs. Strobascher. He was very complimentary of her report while respectfully disagreeing with it's conclusions.

Ms. Costello on behalf of Woolwich Township cross-examined Mr. Gastmeyer. She quite effectively pointed out that Mr. Gastmeyer was very late to the process and had indeed missed out on talks with the parties as well as with the peer reviewer for the Township. She cast doubt on his credibility/sincerity when it was shown that the fellow who did the modelling wasn't the fellow (Gastmeyer) defending it at the hearing. No explanation has yet been given as to why. Ms. Costello scored big time when she finally got Mr. Gastmeyer to admit that he had no examples of operational co-ordination between two seperate pits. She then got him to reverse his testimony that there were no non typical conditions attached to the Hunder Pit. He finally agreed that the co-ordination required with another pit (Jigs Hollow) was a specific condition to the Hubnder Pit alone. Mr. Gastmeyer repeatedly indicated that he had no knowledge of the operational rules affecting the Jigs Hollow Pit.

After lunch we learned that at least two agreed items by I.B.I., the consultants to Hunder, had not gotten into the final report. These included that processing included both crushing and screening and that sand exposure levels didn't get in as well. The final change by Mr. Gastmeyer revolved around the crusher language neede to incorporate crusdhing of either aggregate or of the recycled asphalt and concrete. Ms. Costello raised an interesting point namely was there a point at which conditions made a pit simply not viable.

The O.M.B. Chair, Ms. Schiller, right at the end of the day raised the question of some kind of ownership relationship between the two pits. Peter Pickfield, lawyer for Hunder, said there was not. The hearing continues this morning (Fri.) at ten am..