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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2002. PAGE 13.
Chlorine comes to schools' on-site wells
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
Students at five elementary
schools within the Huron-Perth
Catholic District School Board may
notice a chlorine taste to their
school's water when classes resume
next week. That's because a deadline
has arrived for all schools served by
on-site wells to come into
compliance with Ontario's new
drinking water protection
regulations.
Officials
By Stew Slater
Special to The. Citizen
Catholic elementary schools in
Clinton and Wingham will be
examined by officials of Ontario's
ministry of education this year, as
part of a new system for deciding
when schools have deteriorated to
the point that it makes more
financial sense to tear them down
than it does to fix them.
But Huron-Perth Catholic District
School Board Management
Superintendent Gerry Thuss stresses
that the planned visits are, in no way,
suggestions the schools could face
demolition.
According to a report delivered by
Thuss at a regular meeting Monday,
Aug. 26, information about the state
of repair of all schools in the
province will be collected in one
specialized computer software
program called RECAPP.
He says the program has the
potential to provide a consistent set
of criteria for the entire province,
thereby eliminating the frustrating
series of roadblocks faced by the
Huron-Perth board before it was
finally able to convince the
government last spring that St.
4-Hers
meet at
Seaforth
ag-plex
By Ben Caldwell
Meeting five of the Be!grave
Brussels 4-H Club was held at the
Seaforth Agriculture Building on
Aug. 13.
This was the annual 4-H judging
competition. Members from all over
Huron County came to judge
different categories.
Once registered they listened to a
brief speech about what they're
judging and they were divided into
groups.
They then judge everything from
résumés to cattle, milking goats
market goats, hay, etc.
Once this is complete they have to
talk to a judge and tell him why they
placed the different things the way
they did.
Each group now anxiously awaits
the results.
The next meeting is Wednesday,
Aug. 28 at 6 p.m. at Corey
Rintoul's. Members are to bring
their calves trained.
Help protect the
environment
Reduce, reuse
and recycle
Well-fed water systems at schools
in Kinkora, Hesson, Dublin, St.
Columban and Kingsbridge will all
have primary treatment by
ultraviolet radiation and secondary
chlorination, in time for the
September, 2002 deadline. Trustees
were informed of the board's
compliance with the province's
"Regulation for Smaller Water
Works Serving Designated
Facilities" at a regular board meeting
Monday, Aug, 26.
"There's no difference in the
Marys school in Hesson needs to be
replaced.
Information from the Hesson
school will not be included within
the board's submission to the new
RECAPP program, since the
government has now established a
means for funding its replacement.
But all other schools will be
included.
aquifer that we're pulling the water
from, but what has changed in our
delivery system is that the water in
all cases is now being treated,"
explained Management
Superintendent Gerry Thuss.
"(Students) may notice a chlorine
taste in the water but people notice
that in any municipality. We do have
to meet the standards."
Also at the meeting, Thuss
presented the first of what will
become annual Drinking Water
Reports for each of the five schools.
And the government has required
that each board provide two schools
for examination by ministry
officials, so they can compare their
own notes with the data submitted
by ,he board. According to Thuss,
the two Huron-Perth schools are St.
Joseph's in Clinton and Sacred Heart
in Wingham.
"The ministry will then send in a
Like the treatment systems, the
reports are required under the
province's strengthened regulations.
The rest of the board's schools are
served by municipal water systems,
which are subject to a different set of
regulations.
Thuss credited Anne Marie
Nicholson, the board's manager of
assessment and plant, for doing
much of the work on the reports.
Nicholson worked with Goderich-
based engineering firm B.M. Ross.
Each report details the age and
team to see if the information that's
being submitted is being submitted
correctly," he explained.
He conceded, however, that
Huron-Perth officials did consider
some deterioration factors when
deciding on the two schools. He
noted that the roof in Wingham may
need repair in the foreseeable future,
while the situation at the Clinton
condition of the well, location of the
school relative to its surroundings,
extent of the water treatment system,
and schedule of testing for various
potential contaminants.
The reports also highlight any
abnormal test results and the actions
taken in response. In particular,
incidences of elevated total coliform
in the water at the schools in Dublin,
Kinkora and St. Columban are
outlined. Each school spent a small
number of days under a boil water
advisory during the spring of 2001.
school could be complicated by the
existence of separate additions,
constructed at different times.
"Our schools are generally in good
shape," he said. "The question will
be the cost to provide things like
roofing or heating plants or
electrical facilities or windows.
Those are the things that could get to
us sometime down the line.
to examine area Catholic schools