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Anonymous said...

The Minister "requires municipalities to reduce salt" that’s Odd,check out http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/environment/en/resources/results/index.htm?txtSearchType=library&txtSearchValue=Snow Disposal and De-Icing MOE Guidelines on Snow Disposal and De-icing Operations in Ontario appears to suggest something completely different , words like "Guidelines" , "Suggests", "Preferable" "Where ever Possible" scream off the page No mention that it's required. Maybe you better dig a little deeper into this Councilor , ???? 1 million can be better spent ,or not at all ****************** 

Anonymous said...

You should get 20 copies of this week's posts and comments put into file folders and distributed to members of Council and all Department heads. The folder should be titled: WE THE PEOPLE Maybe someone will pay attention.

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Here's something else you need to know about. The report speaks about the need to build a snow "storage site " and treatment plan to protect the ground water supply  as well as to protect the well head area.

Our ground water supply comes from an aquifer deep down. Many layers of material separate it from the surface. Including an impermeable layer of clay.It's a geological feature of our area.We are the headwaters area  for Lake Simcoe and Lake Ontario. Water comes from springs deep within the earth.

We have bottomless lakes.The theory is they are connected by an underground river.
Lakes are spring fed. Swamps dry up in the summer.

Forty years ago when we tapped into this aquifer, the water was carbon tested. It was thousands of years old. It was cold. clear and pure. The Region tests regularly. Nothing has changed.

A second supply to augment the ground water comes from Lake Ontario.

So, even if there is salt in the snow that gets scooped up from the Yonge Street Centre Block.it has no impact whatsoever on the water supply.

We do not take water from the wellhead area identified by the Region as in need of protection.

The water supply is in no need of protection by a million dollar snow storage site and treatment centre.

The question of how much salt there is in the snow, remains unanswered. The previous site used for twenty years is now the location of  a flourishing community garden. So much for the argument of salt pollution.

I had salt left over from  winter this year. There's no point in storing it. It absorbs humidity and turns into brine. I used it to kill  weeds on my crushed brick driveway. They didn't come back where the salt hit them. That has to be a first.

I know about salt absorbing moisture from the atmosphere from using it in my basement before I could afford a de-humidifier.