HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-04-15, Page 36PAGE 36. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1987.
E. Wawanosh changes secondary plan
BY GARY WALDEN
Final changes to East Wawa
nosh secondary plan were discuss
ed with Wayne Caldwell from the
County Planning office when East
Wawanosh council met April 7.
One of the problems attended to
waswhattodowiththe sewage
lagoon in Hutton Heights. The
lagoon services the, town of
Wingham and Wingham town
council felt that if Hutton Heights
was allowed to expand, then it
would (1) cause a problem with the
present lagoon and (2) would
hinder expansion of the lagoon.
Council membersfeltthat it wasn’t
Unhappy neighbour
vows to fight on
fair to the taxpayers of East
Wawanosh not to be able to
develop Hutton Heightsjust to
please Wingham. If Wingham
doesn’t want Hutton Heights to
expand, then they should compen
sate East Wawanosh for any lost
taxes.
Reeve Snell stated that if the
township is not going to get paid for
any loss of tax monies, then
Wingham shouldn’t be able to
block Hutton Height’s expansion.
Council recommended to Mr.
Caldwell stating that the by-laws of
East Wawanosh would allow for
further expansion of Hutton
Heights.
Another problem relating to
waste disposal of Wingham resi
dents is the waste disposal site on
cone. 12 in East Wawanosh.
Apparently the town of Wingham
has been granted a licence to dump
their garbage on a 17 acre site in
East Wawanosh. This 17 acres has
been zoned Developmental, which
allows a landfill site and the
surrounding land has been zoned
Extractable Resources, which does
not allow a landfill site. The
problem is that the Wingham
landfill site is not outside of the
original 17 acres and the garbage is
being dumped in an unlicensed
area of Mr. Joe Kerr’s gravel pit.
East Wawanosh council wants
this practice to stop, however the
Ministry of the Environment has
turned a blind eye to the situation.
When representatives of the Mini
stry w ere taken by East Wawanosh
council members to view it, they
ignored the situation and instead
came down hard on the East
Wawanosh council members over
the operation of their landfill site,
even though it is being run within
the guidelines, and even though
there have been no complaints
about it.
This action by the Ministry of the
Environment left one council
member to wonder if, there wasn’t
another set of rules for the town of
Wingham.
Mr. Caldwell stated that coun
cil’s best option to prevent further
abuseatthe Wingham landfill site,
is to get the province to declare the
present dumping area illegal by
the laws which have already been
laid down by the Environmental
Ministry.
Two severances were approved
to Mr. Helmut Seiber with a third
severance application being de
ferred until such time as Mr. Seiber
stipulated the use of the severance.
One of the other severances further
carried the requirement that the
zoning on it be changed from
agriculture to industrial and com
mercial.
Building permits were granted
to Fred Meier Jr. for an addition
onto his house, to Herman Reinick
to move a trailer onto a lot.
Tenders for gravel in East
Wawanosh were let with Jacklin
Construction getting the contract
to crush and stockpile out of the
Westfield pit. Howatt Bros, to haul
and spread gravel out of the
Whitechurch pit and out of the
Westfield Pit and to Kerr Con
struction to supply crush and haul
out of kerr’s own pit in the northend
of the township.
The tenders for the work on the
Cook drain were accepted with the
low bid of $12,636 from Archibald
Donald from Forest getting the
contract.
A special meeting was schedul
ed for Monday, April 13 to discuss
disposition of the Humphrey Sub
division in Belgrave.
Despite a letter from the Huron
County Health Department saying
it feels there is nothing wrong with
the operations of a Brussels
trucking company a neighbour
vowed at council Wednesday night
to continue his fight against what
he considers illegal cleaning out of
livestock trucks.
In a letter to council Phil
Paquette of the health department
said he had met with the owner of
the business on March 19 and had
been told the trucks were being
washedouteitheronCNR property
or at the Brussels Stockyards. “It
would appear to be a satisfactory
arrangement,’’ he said.
Councillor Neil McDonald said
he and Councillor Betty Graber had
also visited the business to tell the
owner what Mr. Pennington’s
complaints were about a barking
dog but “the dog was perfect the
whole time we were there" even
though there were plenty of
vehicles going up and down the
street nearby, something which
had been said to cause the dog to
bark in the past. “We looked
around the place and it looked
fairly neat," he said.
The explanations did not satisfy
John Pennington who has been
attending council regularly for
more than a year asking for action
against the dog and the cleaning
out of trucks. He mentioned a letter
council had sent to the business
which pointed out there is a fine for
polluting sewers with animal waste
and claimed the letter was really
saying that the businessman
couldn’t clean his trucks anywhere
in the village.
The section of the by-law quoted
in the council’s letter reads:
“No person shall discharge or
deposit or cause or permit the
discharge or deposit into land
drainage works, private branch
Flood standard
changed
on 9 Mile River
A change in the regulatory flood
standard for Nine Mile River in the
jurisdiction of the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority has been
announced by Natural Resources
Minister Vincent G. Kerrio.
The flood standard is changed
from the Hurricane Hazel Storm to
the 100-Year flood.
This change was made in
response to a request by the Village
of Lucknow and the other affected
municipalities, the Minister said.
Even though the flood standard
is reduced, the basic concept of
floodplain management remains
unchanged; that is, ensuring that
new development is not flood
susceptible and that problems are
not created or aggravated for
existing development, he said.
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matter of any type or at any
temperature or in any quantity
which may be or may interefere
with the proper operation of a
sewage works? or which may
impair or interfere with any
sewage treatment process, or
which may be or may become a
hazard to persons, animals or
property...”
A later section of the same
by-law provides for a $300 per day
fine for such contamination.
Neither the Health Unitor the
Ministry of the Environment has
been able to find evidence that the
manure is contaminating either a
storm sewer or sanitary sewer.
To Reeve Hank TenPas’ state
ment that the Huron County
Health Unit seemed to feel the
situation w as all right and that the
business was aware of the penalty
ifthere was pollution Mr. Penning
ton claimed that there are by-laws
to control the actions and council
doesn’t seem interested in looking
into them. “I’m not quitting until 1
get something done.”
Mr. Pennington said he had
cleaned up the garbage he had left
on a village-owned boulevard in
protest and said he was asking in
turn that the smell and the manure
from the truck washing be cleaned
up. He suggested that all the truck
washing be done at Brussels
Stockyards. When Reeve TenPas
asked what would happen to
pollution out there, Mr. Penning
ton said that was Grey township’s
problem not his. He was just
worried about his neighbourhood.
Mr. Pennington got support
from Councillor Gordon Workman
who said that when a whole trailer,
with the square footage of a house,
is washed out there is bound to be a
lot of manure washed out no matter
how well the truck has been
scraped out. When it gets in the
grass and the sune shines on it, it
begins to smell, he said.
Reeve TenPas defended the
business saying in his view it
seemed to be a pretty clean
operation. “Hopefully, if he can
find another location it would be
even better.”
“Tobe honest with you,” he told
Mr. Pennington, “Idon’tknow
that there’s much we can do.” He
then asked the other councillors if
they had any solutions. Councillor
Workman said he had nothing to
say that was going to make him the
bad guy in front of the press.
Councillor McDonald said he
couldn’t see what could be done
about a dog that seemed to be
well-behaved when the owner was
around. Maybe the dog would bark
more when the owner wasn’t there,
he said, but that was what a watch
dog was supposed to do.
On leaving Mr. Pennington
asked for an appointment to appear
again next month.
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