The Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-07-23, Page 19'WEDNESDAY, JULY 23rd, 1909.
THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
PAGE NINETEEN'.
Construction of the..second`largest'
nuclear power station in the world
in Bruce County Will cost Ontario
Hydro; $750,000,000 but costs will.
'also be high for the county as a
whole..
The estimated ,additional cost for
education of construction workers'
•
,famtlte_s_�has-,been--estimated- a
taxpayer could be staggering.. "'
If :the -ceiling on grants is remov,-
ed. the county Might expect to;
receive in education grants.
$5,569,021, , leaving $6,697,545
,toy be raiseby the county.
.The entire province.will be. se_rv-
'ed by the 3 , 000','000 kilowatt:
a ion .e e'avy -Plant
plant
$12,266,,566. •
" Director of the Bruce board of
, education, J.L., : Bowers, ,who has
just completed a study° on the lin-
On-education-by-the-Douglas
imon--education• by-the-Douglas
Point construction, said; "to
incubate a station of this magnit
ude will create many problems, iota
the' least of which will be,
financial.
Mr. Bowers said he relied, heavily
on statistics from Ontario Hydro.
which ,in turn based its. figures .on.
the smaller nuclear station now'
being built at Picketing'. •
The study led. Mr. Bowers to con-
•clude . ";Unless' special education
--grants-ar-e-paid-to.-the--Bruce-board:
• of education orunless the ceiling
••on grants is removed for Bruce
County diiring'the period of_c_onst, u•
ction, the impact on the local
•t.
also. to be built at Douglas •Point
will serve all' of'Canada, so both •
federal and provincial assistance
would be warranted the director.'
said; .•,-
When the plants are completed'.
they should either be assessed for
industrial purposes or, if tax
exempt, there should be a grant -in
lieu of taxes paid directly to the
board of ,education,,he said..
410 NEW PUPILS
Mr. Bowers said the construction,
Will . mean 410 additional pupils in.
Bruce schools in the 1970
term and the anticipated peak ' will
be reached in 1975 at 1,520..
_students '-en years from n• :he
the'- project is :expected to be near.
completion there will still' be
1,030 pupils of ;plant employees.
Predictions •indicate-the_marrierl;
staff members will have an -
average. of 1.2 school aged child-
ren. Eighty per cent of the operat.
ions staff will be married, 70 per
cent of the regular construction
staff and; 75 per cent of the temp-
oraryconstruction staff.
All operations staff will reside
e:are .r•.$f:•-pe cet,tof:the .
regular constriction •staff and 30
per cent 'of the temporary constru-
ction staff will'live ,in Bruce. The•
increase in Bruce population due:
to:.the-eonstr-uctio-n. will-pr-abably --
reach 12,000 persons:,
TALC FORECAST, .
.Costs'of,educating these addition..
al children next year will be $582
for those in elementary schools,
and $1,077 .for secondary school
pupils. These figures are expected:
to reach '$985 and $1,803 •by.1979 ,
allowing for an anticipated cost
'increase of six per cent
each year...
Many of theworkers will live in'
w inte'rized summer' cotta es, trail-,
er camps -or rental parts of older
homes and the amount .of new
construction is expected •to:provide'
assessment'for 'only 20 per=cent of
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the added costs. ,The rest,must• be
raised throughout Bruce County.
The construction will, not raise;in-
sur.mountab]e �6 r1ems-in-housi
the, students next term, superintend
ent Keith Waldie of Walkerton told
the Board, but ;plans; must. be made
now to accommodate pupils in the
succeeding, years.
Major areas tobe affected willlbe
Kincardine , Tiverton, Port Elgin,
Southampton, Ripleyandlrtownships
of Kincardine, Huron, Bruce"and
Saugeen. Deist September the
increase •will be about 150 pupils.
Reviewing the situation in
secondary schools.; Mr:. Waldie said
the Ripley school' is 'a sniall one: of
194 pupils providing ;courses in arts,
.science only Provisions are
made to send vocational pupils to
Wingham school • •
. __High_Sehools: at_Sincardine and
Port Elgin are medium-sized with
320 and 394.pupils. They give
arts and sciences` and four year
business and commerce, Both
schools can'absorb more students
and both send vocational pupils to
'the Walkerton school.
'SAFETY VALVE' :, -
Mr. Waldie describdd the large
Walkerton school with its 1,400
enrolment as "the safety
valve". Five additional portable
nus wi11Wb-e•..o:mpe-t'ed -ti -
September at Walkerton, :enough to
handle the anticipated enrolment.
The Walkerton School is currently
educating vocational students
fromschools...at 1ianove
Durham , bit with the completion
in time for the 1970. term of a
vocational wing at Hanover, • more'
Bruce pupils can be educated at
Walkerton:
rrang thent ha a-been-m'adc-to
obtain portable classrooms'on short
notice • for elementary pupils. Site
locations for these additions are
already being allocated Public
•schools at Port.t';Tgin, Southampton
Kincardine , Tiverton Kincardine ,
UnderWood and in Huron Township
w ill••take the brunt of .thio increase;
it is •expected '
TEACHERS. AVAILABLE
,An additional supply of teachers
is available this year. ,
Two .of the.. county's schools for .,
retarded children at Port Elgin
and At Kincardine ; .can provide
accommodation for additional.
pupils if required
'These provisions are to care for
student increases onl for 'the
school year beginning: September.,..
1969: Early in the fall terra when
the trend of population increase be
begins to clarify', planning must be •
started • to provide accommodation • ..
and•staffing for the considerably,"
larger influx of students expected' •
in 1970;" Mr: Wald* said. .