Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "I"m Fine Thank You":
"For more than thirty years neither Aurora or Newmarket has discharged clean and clear effluent into the carrying stream that leads to the East Holland River."
So it is okay to continue this practice? I don't think so. Just because we have done something for 30 years doesn't make it right!
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I publish the above comment to illustrate lack of reading comprehension.We had that problem with leading council members in the last term.
The sentence quoted states Aurora and Newmarket have NOT discharged effluent into the East Holland River for more than thirty years.The commenter read the opposite.
But there was a problem. Waste water treated in a tertiary treatment system , though clean and clear at the end of te process .is "dead" Ozygen has been removed . Dead water, in greater quantity than the capacity of the carrying stream kills live water. Algae multiplies. Fish suffocate.
Tannery creek is a cold water stream . In the past, before urbanisation, trout were plentiful. Upstream from the tanneries of course.
The tertiary treatment system worked well. but in a flash flood, the gates had to be opened and raw sewage released into the creek. There were no storm sewers in the old town.Storm water filtered into the sewer system . The gates had to be opened to keep raw sewage from backing up into basements.
The town undertook to re-construct the entire old town road system and separate storm and sanitary systems in the process. We completed the task in twenty-five years. Now it's complained that storm water is waste water.
Sometimes I think the only thing that would calm the vociferous clean freaks in the community would be for humans to abandon the planet .
When I was Mayor, the Ontario Water Resources declared the treatment plant at capacity. Development was frozen.
The oil crisis happened.
Interest rates climbed to double digits.We had no assessment growth to cover runaway inflation.
Farmers dumped dead cows at bank entrances and clogged city streets with tractors to signify desperation.
Small retail business paid more interest on a working overdraft than they earned.
It was a tough time.
We borrowed money. Bought Jack Woods farm to develop a showcase industrial park.
And so it came to pass.
In time for someone else to take the credit and build that serpentine section of the Industrial parkway.
C'est La vie in Politiques !
Evelyn,
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should write what you want to say rather than leaving it open to interpretation with double negatives.
"For more than thirty years neither Aurora or Newmarket has discharged clean and clear effluent into the carrying stream that leads to the East Holland River."
Neither A or N has discharged clean and clear.... Can be read to mean A or N discharges dirty effluent.
By saying that this person lacks reading comprehension is disengenuous when the writer does not get the point across in clear language. I still fail to see how your sentence "Aurora and Newmarket have NOT discharged effluent into the East Holland River for more than thirty years." is extrapolated from the original sentence.