The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-11-24, Page 17One Hundred and Fifth Year Page 17 Price Per Copy 2 Cents
Water situation crucia No money for system
Luck of services is concern of Dashwood trustee
"Our biggest concern is that
we just don't have the services"
stated George Tiernan at the Ur-
ban workshop held Thursday at
the Hay, township hail,
The workshop, which was one
of a series designed to get input
into the proposed Hay township
secondary plan, was attended by
40 citizens of Hay and surroun-
ding municipalities,
Tieman who is chairman of the
board of Trustees for the police
village of Dashwood, told the
audience that the acquisition of
another source of water is
becoming more and more crucial
every year, if Dashwood is to
grow.
"Our wells are horrible„..75
percent of the water samples
coming back are not fit to use."
When asked about the quality
of Dashwood's septic systems,
Tiernan said that there was good
underground seepage but it was
just that the water was seeping
back into the wells,
Dashwood has had a water
system approved for a number of
years but there is no money to
finance it according to Tiernan,
A member of the audience
pointed to the groups of farmers
in Stephen who were tapping into
the Lake Huron Water supply
line and inquired that if a small
group of private citizens could do
this why could not a village do
like wise,
George Penfold of the Huron
County Planning Department
said that "there is a difference
between public and private
water service, With a private
water service, certain construc-
tion standards as set Own by the
Ministry of Environment do not
have to be met while water
systems that are funded publicly
have to meet these standards."
On questions of growth and the
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Farmer fined S50,000
on income tax evasion
A Clinton area farmer, Gordon
H. Dale was fined $50,000 in
Goderich Provincial court
Monday morning on a charge of
income tax evasion,
In assessing the fine, Judge C.
Olmstead of Walker-ton said the
$50,000 represents 75 percent of
the federal tax evaded of
$67,542.27 during the years 1971 to
1974 inclusive.
Investigation by the Depart-
ment of National Revenue
established that Dale had failed
to report farm and investment
income totalling $200,937.95
during the four year period.
Judge Olmstead granted Dale
one year to pay the fine and
provided an alternative of two
years in jail in default of payment
of the fine.
kind of services that hamlets and
villages provide to townships,
one taxpayer was adamant that
the township had done very little
for these municipalities with
particular reference to
Dashwood. "All we've been get-
ting is the runaround." he said.
Lloyd Willert president of the
local of the National Farmer's
Union said that hamlets provide
a necessary service for the peo-
ple of the rural area.
"A shopping mall in Exeter
would be awfully hard on
businesses and possibly wipe
some of these hamlets out, We
have to preserve these places."
Willert stated.
Joe Miller, a former deputy
reeve for Hay township felt that
townships should buy land that
surround the hamlets and
villages, sever it into lots and
then sell them at cost. He felt
that either this suggestion occur
or that developers who purchase
large tracts of land and sever
them, be limited into what they
could charge for a lot.
Zurich Reeve Fred Haberer
opposed the idea of subdivisions
in townships considering the fact
that rural municipalities have
experienced declines in popula-
tion. "70-75 serviced lots are
available in Zurich at the present
time," Haberer said.
On a point raised about strip
development in Dashwood, Pen-
fold said that if Dashwood was to
grow. "the back roads of the
village must be opened up."
Questions about the amount of
control which various levels of
government have over un-
desirable farm operations were
raised.
Specific reference was made
to large scale feed lot and hog
operations .that produced a con-
tinuous undesirable odour.
Willert wondered if sub-
divisions could be held up
because of odours.
Penfold stated that certain
controls already exist with the
Code of Practise for farm
operations setting certain
guidelines with regards to the
number of feet that certain farm
operations must be set back
from a road. •
Members of the audience
wondered if controls on
ownership property could be
placed, in order to restrict large
company owned feed-lot
operations.
"You can't control land use
with respect to ownership;' was
Penfold's reply, "but it is possi-
ble to set an upper limit on the
number of animal units that each
operation can have."
On the question of mobile
homes in the township, Doug
Shephard of R.R. 1 Dashwood
said he could see few problems
with mobile homes in a rural set-
ting. He said that they provide
relatively inexpensive housing
for the young farmer.
In terms of trailer parks, he
pointed out that they are self-
sufficient in that they provide
thPir nwn roads neri services.
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It was felt by Jim Love that the
land on which individual trailers
sit should not be allowed to be
severed as this would allow per-
manence for the structure.
Next Thursday the workshop is
on the natural environment and
extractive resources.
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FISHING FUN — Angela Cottrell comes up with a prize from the fish pond at Saturday's bazaar at the Ex-
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