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"Alarm Bells"
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Email to: |
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Ottawa
Mayor and Councillors |
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From: |
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Harvey Snyder (Richmond resident) |
-------- Original Message --------
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ALARM BELLS |
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Sat, 3 Apr 2004 14:24:57 -0500 |
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Harvey.Snyder@consulting.fujitsu.com |
| To: |
Bob.Chiarelli@ottawa.ca,
Glenn.Brooks@ottawa.ca,
Herb.Kreling@ottawa.ca,
Jan.Harder@ottawa.ca,
Gord.Hunter@ottawa.ca,
Eli.El-Chantiry@ottawa.ca,
Doug.Thompson@ottawa.ca,
Maria.Mcrae@ottawa.ca,
Jacques.Legendre@ottawa.ca,
Rainer.Bloess@ottawa.ca,
Rob.Jellett@ottawa.ca,
Peter.Hume@ottawa.ca,
Rick.Chiarelli@ottawa.ca,
Clive.Doucet@ottawa.ca,
Georges.Bedard@ottawa.ca,
Michel.Bellemare@ottawa.ca,
Diane.Holmes@ottawa.ca,
Peggy.Feltmate@ottawa.ca,
Shawn.Little@ottawa.ca,
Alex.Cullen@ottawa.ca,
Diane.Deans@ottawa.ca,
Janet.Stavinga@ottawa.ca |
Mayor and Coucillors:
In order to sell you on approving the forcemain solution for Munster,
Richard Hewitt presented and defended a staff report in which the
operational life-cycle for the system was extended out to 90 years. By
citing lower O&M cost for the last 25 or 30 years than for the first 60 to
65 years, he managed to make the cost difference between pipeline and
on-site something of a wash. That apparently convinced you to vote for the
forcemain in spite of, and with disregard for the vehement objections of
the more than 5000 residents in Richmond with very legitimate health
concerns.
Yet these same engineers led by Richard Hewitt seem quite happy to accept
the far more rational life cycle figure of 20 years for the reopened Class
EA being conducted for the long term management of the Trail Road leachate
and contaminated groundwater situation. An EA that you, as a body, reopened
because of public concerns expressed by the residents in close proximity.
Stonebridge residents complain, you reopen. Richmond residents object, you
ignore, and Mr. Hewitt's people rush to start the work before the ice is
off the Jock River.
There is something wrong with this picture. Are there no alarm bells going
off in your heads?
R.A. Harvey Snyder, P.Eng.
838-3572
Cell 613-720-0664
P.S. The municpal engineers are apparently aware of, and
concerned about,
the opposition to this project by Richmond residents, the
attached picture
taken on Cockburn street Richmond shows how much.
(See attached file: secur2.jpg)
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Above
photo, taken March 2004, of back of van containing
guard dogs, potentially to be used against residents
---for riot control--- presumably due to the
fact that Richmond residents are irate over city
officials not working in the public interest (to
protect health and save tax dollars). |
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Newspaper
notice of the city's re-opening of the Trail Road
Environmental
Assessment Process:
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At right ►
The newspaper notice
from the city, regarding the re-opening
of the Environmental
Assessment Process:
"DUE TO CONCERNS EXPRESSED BY THE
PUBLIC"
seem somewhat
duplicitous to Richmond residents who are faced with city-
unresponsiveness to their clearly voiced concerns over the
health hazard that would be created by a sewage forcemain planned to be put
through their shallow aquifer.
The irony of the two situations is
that Stonebridge already has municipal water servicing to its homes...
while
90% of Richmond residents
RELY ON PRIVATE
SHALLOW WELLS FOR THEIR DRINKING WATER. |
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For more information on the "Trail Road Leachate
Sewergate" scandal, referenced abovep:
LINK HERE |
Background:
Richmond
petition expressed health and safety "public concerns"
to council , June 9, 2004 |
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