-------- Email Letter - Sent by a Director of the Richmond Village Association-------
To:
Mayor and Councillors of the City of Ottawa,
and forwarded To:
Ottawa's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Robert Cushman

Sanity Check - Are You Listening to Yourself?

Seven thousand people living in 1200 homes in Richmond and along the route
from Munster Hamlet draw their water from the local aquifer from their
private, shallow wells. This water source is wide open and vulnerable to
lethal contamination. Yet you, as a body actually approved a plan that
pumps under pressure, the sewage from Munster Hamlet's 400 homes directly
through the water supply that Richmond residents drink from. Sewage made up
of fecal material, urine, bathwater, dishwater, blood - anything the
residents of Munster choose to rinse down the sink or flush down the
toilet.

You made this decision, knowing that there were other options - routing
the forcemain to Stittsville where the water supply is enclosed in pipes and
the responsibility of the city to maintain, or constructing a tertiary
treatment on-site plant that has been proven over and over across this
continent.

Think about it. Could you have chosen a worse solution? What you have done
is not only irrational, it is simply and fundamentally wrong. For the rest
of you - would you have done that to a community in your ward? For Janet,
you should be deeply ashamed for this assault on the well being of our
community.