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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. EasteR Means Neco Life OPEN TUES.-SAT. \ ( 9 A.M. 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CLEAN ALL-PURPOSE [LIQUID CLEANER 1.5 l. 3.99 drains or connections to any sanitary sewer or combined sewer, 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. MANY MORE SPECIALS THROUGHOUT OUR STORE