THE KING CITY STORY:
...SAME 'MO'

King Township's battle for on-site wastewater treatment system,
against York Region's push for the far more expensive 'big pipe',
has striking similarities to the Munster situation

...including

  two of the same Engineering Consultants (Conestoga-Rovers and Associates,    
 and R.V. Anderson Associated Limited), who, almost simultaneously (in 2002),  
conducted "independent" peer review, client-paid assessments ...of each other's work. 


By definition: For there to be no "conflict of interest", it "has to
 be seen that there is no appearance of the possibility of a conflict
of interest", otherwise, a "conflict of interest" is deemed to exist.

 

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Oct. 25, 2003

   "A technically superior local sewage treatment system could protect our moraine aquifers and groundwater by keeping water within our watershed and inevitably give us more control over future planning."

A scar across the region
Follow Big Pipe's path to the Oak Ridges Moraine
and you'll see sewage project cuts insidious swath

Time to protect natural treasures

Editorial, Oct. 22.

The feisty battle in King Township's municipal election rages over the Big Pipe vs. a
state-of-the-art local sewage system, not vs. septics, as stated in your editorial.

That fundamental error, along with your editorial slur about environmentalists in King Township,
leaves me wondering about your sources on this sensitive environmental and development issue.

I wish to remind your editorial board that King citizens were the first to sound the alarm about the
need to protect the Oak Ridges Moraine some 20 years ago (King Township is 70 per cent on
the moraine, King City, 100 per cent) and we have continued to oppose any plans such as the
Big Pipe, which would severely compromise the integrity of moraine function.

Follow the path of the pipe and you'll see that no community in its wake has escaped insidious
sprawl. Bear in mind also that the disputed 6,600 Richmond Hill homes to be built on the
moraine will be serviced by the same pipe that is poised to threaten us on our eastern boundary, which borders on the contentious development.

Our concern has good cause, I would say.

A technically superior local sewage treatment system could protect our moraine aquifers and groundwater by keeping water within our watershed and inevitably give us more control over
future planning.

Now that the Oak Ridges Moraine has finally become the buzzword of the day (and we hope
forever) and after decades of hard work at the grassroots level, our sincere environmental
concerns deserve more accurate reporting than your editorial provided.

Mary Bromley, King City

Toronto Star

Fresh thinking on waste

Oct. 25, 2003. 01:00 AM -  Toronto Star - Letters
Time to protect natural treasures

King City open to local solutions
Oct. 25, 2003. 01:00 AM  -  Toronto Star - Letters
Time to protect natural treasures
 
Close-up: The Big Pipe
Jan. 3, 2004 - Toronto Star - GTO Feature
Fearing the construction of York Region's "Big Pipe" will bleed streams dry and destroy fish habitats, environmentalists are demanding the new sewer be plugged up before another inch is built. [Full Story]

Related:

 

Big pipe hits new snag
July 9, 2004  [GTA] The Toronto Star
Just as the next phase of York Region's massive sewer pipe appears likely to win approval, environmental groups have launched a private prosecution against the region. They claim construction of the pipe — which would require pumping up to 66 billion litres of underground water out of the ground near the sensitive Oak Ridges Moraine — violates the federal Fisheries Act. Peter Gorrie explains.

 
Big Pipe court fight goes ahead  NEW
 Jan. 19, 2004 [GTA] The Toronto Star
A court fight over the Big Pipe sewer link in Markham has been allowed to proceed.
 
 
 

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