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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1984-12-05, Page 1e 20 1. single copy 35c 'macaw residents ogn petitions opposing facility Sixteen .Lucknow residents have, signed petitions objecting to the location of the treatment facility and tile bed system to service the Lucknow sewage works in West Wawanosh Township. The petitions were signed by residents living in the .south western portion. of the village along Canning and Place Streets and at the south end of, ROss Street. The residentson Place Street and Canning Street are ,perhaps most affected by the location of thetreatment facility because • access to the facility will be off Canning Street along a roadway to be treated by the village. When sludge is hauled from . the site it •will exit, onto Canning Street and proceed up to Ross Stfeet. , • - The petitions were delivered to Lucknow Town Hall prior to a November 22 meeting when Lucknow 'Village council addressed the concerns relating to the location of the treatment. facility: Several residents who had signed petitions, including the resid- ents affected on Place Street, attended the meeting to ask'questions and raise objec- tions. • , A -meeting was called for Monday, December .3iyheanelEneW'tVillagefONuncil proposed movinipothe..,..treatment facility -- further to the 64-gt`ditilielirOPY,, 010nOsti • ite, in an attempt to placate- the concerns of the West Wawanosh residents. Lucknow residents in the area, who signed petitions, were not invited to the meeting. Two Place Street residents; Allan Turn10 page' 100 f .•,. ' •••••SENTINE Printed in Locknow, Qntario, Wednesday, December 5, 1984 Pagel ;.• Mirk 'and Miami° Andrew of "Rm*. Street, built One .of the first friends, Joy and Colin Becker. Looking :fonvard to the promise. . , Snowmen hi the village this winter ditrini4e snow fall several more winter weather this week are. from the left, Joy, Mark, Cello weeks ago. Monday, they sized up this: frosty .gentleman standing in and Michele. • • -• . [Photo by Shown Diets] , the back yard Of Nicholas and Russel Mann :with the help or their residents to drop objections to sewage treatment facility Lucknow Village Councilbas informed est Wawanosh residents, who object to e proposed location. of a sewage eatment facility near their homes, it ends to purchase the property in West awano'sh before the option • expires espite their objections. The West Wawa- osh ratepayers were called to a meeting ith the Lucknow couticilMonday morning annther attempt to reconcile their differ - aces. • Following a meeting November 22 ucknow council consulted a sena consult- nt, who approved a location for the treat- ent facility, further east of the proposed ite on property owned by Michael Snob - len just south of Canning Street. The new it on Snobelen property is 50 - 75 metres ast of the original site behind a buffer of rees. ltis council's proposal to ditch the area froni`the site of the treatment facility to the , river, to make it dry enough. to build and pump water away from the site to: the river. The sewage holding tanks and treatment tank will be constructed above ground and earth will be landscaped up around them. The tile bed system will be located on the original site on Chester Finnigan's proper- ty to the South and the effluent will be pumped from the treatment facility to the tile bed. Council proposed on Monday to move the treatment facility further east, away from the homes in the area and asked • residents to sign an agreement, prepared by the village's solicitor, saying they would not 'object to the. construction of the treatment •facility to service Lucknow's sewage works on this site. , • Councillor Ab Murray pointed Out to the - he is not much for persuing legal action. ' residents if they do not agree to this When the township residents indicated proposal and continue to oppose the they were not prepared to sign an agree- • location of the facility in West. Wawanosh, ment; Lucknow councillor 'Eldon' Mann • • the Ministry of Environment would move observed he had really hoped for better the facility back •to the original site on the than that, because council does not want to Snobelen property if it gets approval from get. into a legal hassle. / the Ontario Municipal Board. ' • r'We have an agreement made up by West Wawanosh resident Glen Walden (Lucknow solicitor George) Brophy which said he would be disappointed if the facility could be signed if people are prepared to is built behind his: home. withdraw their objections," said Murray, "I'd like to look out our front. window "but we cannot expect you to sign it if without looking into an open sewage there are people against it." , tank," he said. The flax mill doesn't bother •When asked by West Wawanosh coun- • me. I like to hear the dryer running then I edit* Kathryn Todd if Lucknow intended to know the corn is coming oft" , purchase the property before the option Lucknow councillor Ab Murray said the expires in May, councillor Murray said, village's engineer. Burns Ross told council "It's only good business sense. We got • they have to . know what the West stung once. The option doesn't tnatter. We Wawanosh residents plan to do and added • , Turn to page 34 ressure contractor to speed construction of h Terming "ridiculous" a claim that onstruction of the new wing cannot be ompleted until the end of next 'summer, e administration and board of , the Ingham and District Hospital are putting ressure on the builder, to speed up his ork, • The contractor, Refflinghaus Construe - on of Godericho has been asked to submit • revised con schedule which houldmove •up the completion date, dministrator Norman Hayes told board embers at their November meeting. Re noted the hospital has agreed to everal design changes aimed at making it ssible for the builder to keep working rough the fall and winter. "To suggest this building go on until the first of Oetober is ridiculousr he declared, • noting that the Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital started building at about • the same time and poured the last bucket • of concrete last week, "and they went up six stories. We're not out of the ground/ • yet". I Hayes was responding to a report on building progress given by property chair- man Hans Kuyvenhoven, who explained • that progress to date has been far slower than estimated. He explained that change,!" to the electrical services took a long time and that during the first phase of construe - tion, equipment had to be moved piece by piece to its new location in order not to disrupt the operation of the hospital. • He told the board the contractor propos- ed completion of the ground floor by February 20? 1985; having the first floor closed in by May 31, and having the total • job completed by September 303 which would put it nearly five months behind schedule. •In a later interview, however; Hayes said the problems with the electrical equipment delayed the project by only three weeks and cannot be blamed for putting it so tar behind schedule. He added that, with the change to the design of the roof and other things which have been agreed to, there • should be no reason the building cannot be completed sooner, providing the weather • °Vital wing cooperates. In a related niatter, Kuyvenhoven re- ported that the hospital had paid 570,000 for the property it purchased for a parking ' lot at the corner of John Street and Carling Terrace. Tenders were called on demolition of the two storey brick house on the lot, With bids ranging from a high of $11,600 to a low of $635. "We got quite a spread," he noted , wryly. • • The committee accepted the low tender, • from Total Demolition of Brussels, and removal of the building is well under way, he said, adding that the hospital still plans to grade and gravel The lot but probably will hold off paving until next year.