HIDDEN QUARRY

My friend and environmental colleague, Dr. Henry Regier, has sent me a wonderful report titled "Aquatic Habitat and Fish Survey of Brydson Creek" dated January 2015. Brydson Creek is a headwater tributary to Blue Springs Creek which is a tributary to the Eramosa River at Eden Mills, Ontario. Brydsen Creek is the creek which runs through the location of Hidden Quarry mentioned here last Friday. This report was prepared by K. Schiefer, Ph.D. an Aquatic Biologist. The study was commissioned by the Concerned Residents Coalition of Rockwood, Ontario.

The property studied and part of the Brydson Creek examined is immediately downstream of the location of the Hidden Quarry. The purpose of the study was to determine if a viable population of Brook trout existed and reproduced in the Brydson Creek. Not only do Brook trout live in this stretch of the creek but they thrive. "The Eramosa River and the Blue Spring Creek, have long been considered to contain some of the highest quality cold-water fish habitat within the Grand River Watershed.".

To state that Hidden Quarry threatens this environmental and ecological jewel is an understatement. The quarry is expected via blasting with explosives to go 23 metres below the water table upstream of the area examined in this study. This is but another shameful example of how we are destroying our planet, one bite at a time. James Dick Construction allegedly needs another quarry and profit centre and we the residents of this planet have no real say in the matter. Once again science and truth are trumped by money, power and hopelessly ignorant and corrupt politicians enacting laws that favour money and power while sacrificing the planet we live on.