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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-09-18, Page 26• v • t PAGE-t4,GOD,VWCH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY rSEPTEMBER WI, 1975. Textral wants Textral Fibres Limited is up to its axles itif water and vsants 4 written agreement with the town of Goderich to get their Industrial Park property properly drained. Robert Tease, plant manager for -tile-- textile confrunted Council with the problem , Monday night requesting the written agreement to back up the verbal agreements he said he . had been hearing for ',the -past year. • MT. Tease said that V, hen the property "was purchased by Textral it was on the premise that a storm sewer would be installed it industrial Park by Hesaid-that the -county developer Spence Cuinrnings had assured him, of these'' when negotiations were started on the property purchase and that Mayor Deb Shewfelt had told him on se‘..'er;,i So A romises ifl writin not to worry because the sew er \A as going in. The manager explained to council that the problem or• curred in the company's shipping area during heavy rainS. He said that the drains from the -parking lot and the shipping area • connected and dumped the water runoff , into a catch basin where a pU mp moved it to he ditch and off the property.' 110 went On to explain that. ewer problem begun The recent petition to tQwn council by residents of South Street ,to sepai-ate storm and sanitaey sewers on'their street may have todChed off a .;Iskries of . similar complaints from more residents in town, . The petition from South Street described a health hazard the residents were being forced to live with as a resti It cif inadequate .sewage systems. The people (about 20 signed the complaint) told .of numerous floods': they had suffered froni in heavy rain - (continued from page 1) s,torms. Town council after hearing adds : 'With reference to nyaro's ' Ho d' Ti original press release, Mr. Wilson states : , (continued from page 1) "There has: been no weeks to establish some sort of • radiological accident, within contact with the parks crew, Frydro, or even 'in the civilian both attempts in vain. She said ' nuclear ryower program' in the,. that the workers must be western world.',' • already bewildered by , the "The following are just a few attitude and action, of council historical events which deny and that she did not thinkk itfair the aboye statement: to force apiece by piece 'con - major explosion atfrontation on the wrong level. CanAda's• first nuclear' 'in 7 ,Mrs. Haydon said that she stallation at. Chalk,.R iver - 12th tools over the parks -chair- December 1952; a very large release of radio active material into the. environment at the Windscale Plant in England, 10th Oetyber 1957; a reactor out of control situation at the' Enrico Fermi plant near Detroit, 5th October 1966. "CANTDU would be happy to • supply the 'night -mare' details of these and .other events. scattered throughout the brief • history of nuclear reactors. 'Editors will note that while Mr. Wilson makes free use of ,such terms as gross inac-. cUracies, nonsense etc., irF reference to , the, CANTDU comments, 'nowhere, however, does he come toterms with the actual figures, presented in this ' from the administrator, if at statement." •all. the complaints offered ,the residents action as soon as possible. Councillor Dave Gower, chairman of works and cmgineering, was absent from council when the petition was presented- and has since ad- , vised council that by respon- ding to the pelit•iOn im- mediately, council may just be tampering with the tip of an' iceberg. Council Monday night „heard two more letters from residents suffering from flooding due to unseparated sewers. Mrs. Mary. Young of ' 130 Gibbons Street an&Mrs: Iris Sampson of ,46 Britannia Road told council that they were suffering floods regularly and asked if the town could remedy the situation. Councillor GoWer said he had disCussed the Gibbons Street, Britannia Road problemswith manship for the first time this . the. town engineer ,and year and Was not fullyiamiliar . discovered -that the grade of the with the "full range 'of "land in the neighborhood -would requirements when preparing not permit constructing sewers the budget. She -pointed out that to drain into the 'South Storm 1975's expenses should offer a Sewer. He said, the only way' better basis for the 1976 budget they could lead is to Highway 21' however. . and that all , those problems She said that under the would be sokred when the new, present - situation she found sewer was put in on. the high- , herself in a peculiar position of way when it was widened. being kept out I ,of ' Matters pertaining to parks'. The parks .• crew work under the jurisdiction of the roads superintendent and the town administrator and that under that 'system she felt that any, explanation. relating to parks' 'finances could be expected .during heavy rains the pump becomes plugged with sil-t It -)10 the water ansi quits, le.o ng about three fA of water in the lower shipping al -ea w here trucks load and unload. -Now the water lays +n the low spot and, gradually_ drams away but in the winter it n, freeze up an'thlock the truc.',.. the dock,' ' said Mr. Tease. Works and engineer chairman Councillor 1),i Gower said he was aware of the problem Textral faced but added that itNas partially the company's concern.. He said he realized that the town had ,1 responsibility to drain the park but pointed out that Textral hiLl been lax in installing adequate pumping equipment to drain their property without a sewer Mr, Gower told council that Textral, had two drains enip tying into acatch basin through a four inch pipe. He said that a sump,pump had been installed at the bottom of the basin to remove the water through a two inch pipe which he said had been pointed out to company officials lis entirely inadequate, • STER Cabinet Model, Stereo with AM -FM Radio, 8 Track Tape Deck and Record Player • COMPARE AT $429.00 • $275.00 BALL AUCTIONS LUCKNOW ,PHONE 528-2331 -Out. problem is to get rid of 111(, ate! \‘111W111 slint pump,- interjected Mr 'Feast' Councillor Gov% 01. kqlt on to v that the town had been in estigating an' easement to dig 0 drainage ditch .from High- way "1 to Lake flurtin anal that a hopeful the project could be taken care of by I 9.76. IILsaid it \You'd he in had taith for him to promise the \\ ork would be completed by a ertain date, hut he could only offer the efforts of coancil to see the matter through. He added that Textral 'Should consider a' larger pump to take care of the surge of Cvater. thrOugh the catch basin during rains to handle the tlooding until the park, con be drained. • - The easement the town is after to dig the drainage ditch is across land owned by Sun- oastEstates. Bert Alexander', ,pokesMan for Suncoast, in- timated to council at .0 recent committee meeting that his uttpany would be willing to grant the easement. ,provided town proMises in- writing HELPUS OUT! A1/4, G.M.H.A. needs ice time to rent at economical rates,. from neighbouring' arenas. Ice time is paramk)unt to Goderich Minor Hockey. Neighbours, can you help? Please do. Phone 5248732 NOW that the sdrailst.eq.te dttc , be • 1, \tt as 0 storm 11 council can make the Offer effective they would have the ditch graded by the town engineer and construct a flume 'to carry the water over the bluff at the edge of the lake. 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