HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1971-08-12, Page 12' ..GODERICH SIGNAL STAR, THURSDAY,:.AUGUST 12, 1971
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earlier this spring because it was
too -full.
'''OHO said it was ironic that the
OWRC, which is supposed to
police 'Industry and prevent
pollution; was, in effect, the.
polluter of the •Maitland, since it
• was the operator of the lagoon.
He said, the pollution had
plyed,havoc with the ecological
life of time river and killed fish.
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especially with ,sing costs
without added benefits to offset
them. He said regional
governments m.eapt rising
Piece -meal planning.
bureaucrat', and pointed.—to—the---
county school boards as one
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example.
He also said there .was a "
problem of government
becoming too remote from the
"people. This," he said,, and the,, _ ..
• cost problem, were the two great
44' al -46 forced many farmers a dangers he saw in regional
along. the river to Build tencea ao„ government. He said he couldn't
,` stop their .cattle froin drinking ' Problems such as the
the holl> ted water; The OWRC Maitland River pollution would
had:,.,.prorpised. to compensate accompany -regional government,
farmers "for the costs of the but he•said he could understand
fences, Mr. Gaunt said, but •this the anger of the farmers at
was not the real answer:' He said incidents such as the one Mr.
' action, must be taken at once to
Kernighan° had outlined. He said
enlarge the lagoon to prevent the he had. seen a Maitland water
sample which was "blacker than
need for.further dumping. P
11 xs, John Stafford, wife of your boot" and then the OWRC
-
the Huron Federation president, officials :from ' Toronto came
said she and her husband had along and told the people i at the
visit z - meeting that they could drink
the water from the
. the weekend �. and. it was fill „ ,
nearly to the top and some I ve heard about people who
sewage -Vas -seeping through the could hold their liquor better
embankment of the lagoon. She
than, water," he said, `abut this
said it appeared . another "•••
sewage added by the Town of Listowel. The use and abuse of
water resources must `be planned on a regional basis using
sound judgement to weigh Lhe merits of economic resources
and benefits 'against the potential hazards of an, offensive -
environment.
2. The Province must examine' areas' such as the Listowel
area, with an overall view considering all aspects of
environmental .control. If regional pipelines are feasible for
water. collection (e.g.) (Grand Bend to London area) then they",
. are also feasible for "sewage collection to central recycling
plants such as the One in Goderich. What , is required is a
-comprehensive approach considering the relative nee far
sewage dispbsal over a natural geographic.areaencompass,iing a
cluster of municipalities. Qbviously" the legislation must alio*
a'distributidn of•the massive costs municipal treasuries. •
3: The government should get involved in the research,
production and' marketing., of pollution abatement equipment.
In : conjunction, with this activity, genuine attempts must+ be
made +$o assemble the-s'cientific manpower necessary to collect
and interpret data from the research results anti environmental;
experience of other countries. Steps must be taken to
Maitland. ,co-ordinate research, in government, university, and industrial
, laboratories. One shocking instance of the lack of
co-ordiriation and the lack df 'co-operation occurred- in the
Listowel ineident. That was the reaction given to;the Chairman -
of the Engineering Department of McMaster University whet
he was denied data from. the OWRC regarding their proposed.
dumping was inevitable in a
short time.
Ru§fsell Kernighan, R. R. 4,
Goderich, •said ,he had been at
the `meeting held recently in
Atwo�od to discuss the problem,
at whic'r."all the big guns of the.
OWRC" were present. .�
He said he had always been
"1l u ke • warm" to regional
government, but had been
turned absolutely against it by
the meeting at whichrhe said, the
OWRC officials came from
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people .along !e 11 Maitland he.ayrelcr.,;•':
was nothing wrong. fiT said the'
OWRC came to the meeting
prepared to "snow the local
people under with statistics,,,W
had no way of rebutting.'„l'And
all the time the people living.
along the river knew There was
something wrong,' . he said,ft no
matter how much the OWRC
told"them there wasn't.'
Ile asked Mr. Gaunt if this
was the 'sort of thing that could
be :expected if regional
government grew.
Mr. • Gaunt said it was a hard
question to answer... ,He said
•there were definite problems
with regional government,
YEW
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'Ballad+ of ;Crowfoot, a social
com.nentary” on the plight of the
Modern Indian; Summerhill, a
film depicting life at a British
free' school; and Euphoria, 'a Film.
dealing •with experimental
movie -making techniques
utilizing sound, motion -and
color.',
The next evening,
Wednesday, August 18, the YEW
1-Y411 become. a coffee house with.
folk music to listen to, and
coffee, pop and donuts to enjoy.
Admission.: is still just one
quarter dollar.
Next Thursday evening,
Manchild from Toronto will be
playing for dancing at the areha.
Admission will be $1.25 for this
event.
Tuesday, August 24 there will
be. a beading and leather
workshop at the YEW beginning
at 1 pm. For this workshop, 'it
would be helpful if youth would
register, ahead of time.
•
Charge laid
after child
drowns at GPH
Thirty-one year old .Barbara
Young of 158 'Church Street in
Stratford, a volunta y atient at '
the. Goderich Psychiatric
Hospital,' has been charged, b
. ff ers o the,,. it,a4p,„1?;x„ .uincial
the- death by drowning of the
woman's 15 -,day-old son, Robert
James Young.
The death allegedly occurred
at about 5:15 p.m., Friday, in a
toilet. bowl of one of the
hospital's washrooms.
According to a spokesman for`
the hospital, Dr. Michael
Conlon, the incident was
'discovered almost immediately
by the nurse in charge of that
"hospital area, but artificial
respiration failed to revive the
infant. The• child was born July
23 in Goderich.
'Mrs. Young was in the
Dother, .and Baby'. unit," Dr.
onlon said. This unit, it was
explained, was designed to-allow-
mothers
o"allowmothers to keep their babies
when' they become ill.
It has been found,, according
to the doctor, that usually`
mothers want their children very
much and the .babies are kept in
close proximity to the mother,
although under separate and
direct nursing care.
According to police; no
inquest into the incident has yet
been called and the case is "still
under investigation by- the police
force.
Mrs. Young entered the
Psychiatric Hospital on March
11 and returned there after
giving birth to the.baby.
No date has been set for her
appearance in court to face the
charges. •
improvements to the lagoon system, I don't know yet whether
his request has been granted. . •
In 1971, pollution is a local problem. Two major events
have ocurred on the Maitland• River. First, the silt problem
424 from Benmiller area, and secondly, the Listowel lagoon
dumping. The third can occur next week...
Perhaps it is. time "the government cane down from its
autocratic" pedestal and bent an ear to the people. Section 27
'of the Ontario Water Resources Commission Act even prevents.
-, the ,OWRC from_being fined for its incompetent action.
Paul Carroll
Huron New Democratic Candidate.
Victims_.-af.,.,-.,...,traffic crashes
often suffer financially and
socially long after their physical
injuries have healed, - says the
Ontario Safety League., Between
15 and 20 per cent of those
injured never return to the same
job, or exactly the same mode of
life. '
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.SoupCompanyl only the town of Listowel."
• `i• The brief states that the Mayor Kilberg also claimed
,'t .W.R.C. admitted the lagoon to that the group lacked the
have been overloaded since 1962 technical knowledge to make the
and points out that the soup statements they had. He did
company offered to pay their admit, however, that sewage
share of 70 per cent back in from one quarter of "the town
1968 to bring the laeoori un to was flowing into the river from
standard but that nothing had homes not hooked up to sewers
been done. This apparently but. claimed this was a situation
places the blame for stalling at common : to many towns in
the feet of Listowel ands the Ontario. He went on to promise
Q«W,R.C. that all. homes in the town
. The'Asso6iationualst ,ays that would he cilities
the town of Listowel discharges `within theavnextsewer two tfaathree '
large amount, of waste directly years at the outside.
A into the river as is denioristrated ,
by the condition of the stream The mayor also denied that
above and below the village. Listowel had" ever refused to
In summing up, the brief help ' pay its share for necessary
noted," It is our considered expansion. He pointed to the
opinion ''that immediate steps aeration cell which is to be
must be taken' by the town to completed,by the end 'of August
cease the disci arge of untreated and said the town was prepared
wastes directly into the stream; to undertake further expansion
ttat-Issuitwo-p m; --in• 1974 when the. communities
that would in any way consulting firm has ; N
contribute to •a greater amount recommended .another
of sewage, be halted until this evaluation of the situation. ,
disastrous situation is rectified., Kilberg' also suggested
The pollution from the tovJ`n, that Association members,
and area, is• destroying the that
''from. the Brussels area,
ecology of the Middle Maitland should look at their own area
River throughout its entire before accusing Listowel ofcourse. With the co-operation of ` pollution in the Maitland River.
all parties concerned the
be oMeanwhile the lagoons are
the riversituation restorecand. crrected andstill filled to capacity and the
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8:03 all across Canadq, every friday evening. He,investigates ' presented that the Association the past• two weeks is expected
was not alone in its concern to go back into operation next
abdut pollution,but said he -felt a week. The. company alone
• great deal of unjustice was being dumps 1,000,000 gallons of
journalist he's worked -with., Maclean's Magazine, Saturday 1 done. "In fact," he noted, "It is sewage into the lagoons each
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