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Date: Thursday, June 12, 2003
09:36:25 PM
Janet,
People in Richmond are incensed at being
dismissed and marginalized the way you did yesterday in council
by implying that the petition was a lie. One lady called, and
came to our home today specifically to sign the petition, even
after it was submitted, just to make a point of defiance. She
also wants to see the petition continued.
How is it that engineering staff happened to
have answers to all of your questions, yet seemed unable to
answer those of councillor Bloess? Did they know your questions
in advance? Why did you spend time, energy and staff aid to
support a small group in Munster, yet choose to disregard the
concerns of over 600 constituents who took the trouble to sign a
petition to get your attention in this matter. Furthermore, what
was "not true" about the petition? When a threat such as a
forcemain pipeline is introduced into a situation as fragile as
the water supply in Richmond and environs, there is an
accompanying risk. History tells us that that there is a good
probability that the risk will be realized, and history also
tells us that the impact will be grave. So I ask again, what was
untrue with respect to the petition?
You should be ashamed of yourself for your
bloody-minded support of a particular option instead of seeking
the best, least threatening solution for all of your
constituents. Now is too late to engage the people in Richmond.
We should have been involved in the treatment/transport option
selection, not now for the irrelevant determination of the route
through Richmond.
If you truly believe the pipeline is an
innocuous, non threatening, benign solution, lets reopen the
overall route selection and go to the option that had the
Munster pipe going to Stittsville. After all, Stittsville is on
municipal water, not privately owned shallow wells as is the
case in Richmond.
Harvey Snyder
(Richmond)
Janet,
Further on my message requesting answers with
respect to your impassioned defence of the Munster pipeline.
On Saturday I was speaking with two friends,
each of whom has a PhD in areas of earth sciences. I posed a
generic question regarding the advisability of constructing a
forcemain sewage pipe through a built up area serviced by
private shallow wells. Both said it was insane to even consider
it for all sorts of environmental and health safety reasons.
After that opinion was expressed, I explained
the specific situation to them. One of the gentlemen, a
geologist and science advisor at Environment Canada, remembered
you as a consulting contractor working at the department. He
wondered what, based on your apparently professed experience
to fulfill such a role, was possessing you to support the
implementation of this project when the rejection of such a
scheme was a "no brainer".
This question is also on the minds of people
in Richmond.
(HS)
(Harvey Snyder is Vice-President of the
Richmond Village Association)
VIEW PETITION:
Richmond petition against
pipeline sent to Mayor and Council
Letter of June 19,
still looking for courtesy of a reply from Councillor Stavinga |