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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-03-06, Page 19IY ti 4 ► • 1 it �0 on Yob. 1.0 1St BY AV 1Ai it flAVR .IUST " PURCHASED AN ADDITIONAL ,HIOWPRIOSSIORIE ROTARY PRIM. TO PIt0VID RV/;Rhl FASTIM SERVICE FOR OUR CUSTOMIRSI Free Estimates Anywhere in -Ontario. Fast Service. Our wells Exceed Provincial Goverment Stands ds, Modern Rotary and Percussion Q 1lftn9> Strict Adherence to i~nviranniental RQyulations.® DAVIDSQN WELL wiNGHAM DRILLING LSD, SOX446 ' SATISFIED CUSTOMERS SINCE 1900 THROUGH FOUR GENERATIONS DON'T FORGET . , . , The 11th Annual Wingham MIDGET HOCKEY TOURNAMENT °°A" & "C" ACTION Mar. 14, 15, 16 & 17th "AAA" & "B" ACTION MAR. 20, 21, 22 & 23rd SEE ...TOP ONTARIO AND U.S. TEAMS AT THE WINGHAM ARENA LOWER INTEREST RATES Now Available On 1ST. 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The first person a householder should call is the local medical officer of health. He has the au- thority and 'the required know- how to deal with most well pollu- tion directly and quickly. If the medical officer of health finds reason to suspect that the contamination stems from an industrial or agricultural source, he calls in the Ministiy of the En- vironment whose ground water specialists and other experts step in to conduct tests and try to pin down. the , exact source of the problem: They check the flow pattern and the direction of the ground water. and analyze the water in the problem well: Other wells in the area are also tested to see how far the contamination might extend. In most cases, this testing and analysis produces a good indica- tion of the source of the problem, but not always. There have been situations where a particular source is suspected, but after in- vestigation it is found that the ground water flow is away from the area instead of towards it. In this situation, the investigative staff must rely on chemical analysis of the problem well or wells, as well as other portions of the overall ministry investiga- tion. The ministry looks at more than one source originally sus- pected by\ the MOH. Other farm "FOR THOSE WHO DEMAND THE FINEST" POURED CONCRETE SILOS M1 *Quality built of best materials to last longer! *Big or small, we build them all *Roofs and Accessories *Poured Concrete heck our price before you buy DE JONG BROTHERS LIMITED SILOS AND ELEVATORS R.R. #2, Monkton, Ontario, Tel. 347-2424 Member of O.S.A. Ontario Silo Association operations in the area are in- vestigated if it is a farm -related problem, or similar possible in- dustrial sources are looked at if it is suspected that industrial waste might be the problem. Some of.these problems can at times become quite complex, and it is found on occasion that the situation calls for a great deal of research. During these investigations, the ministry can do a great deal of good, not directly related to the original complaint. If it is discov- ered that an industry is disposing of wastes improperly or dis- charging any undesirable efflu- ent where it should not do so, the necessary steps will be taken to see this is corrected.mediate- ly. This is done whether the in- dustry in question is responsible for the immediate problem situa- tion or not. If there is a problem with farm wastes in the area, the Ministry of the environment, working with title Ministry of Agriculture and Food will. find . ways to improve farming meth- ods and waste -handling prac- tices. However, this sort of abate- ment procedure, while beneficial, to the environment, does not al- ways solve an immediate prob- lem with a particular well. The reason is that wells draw their water from the ground around them. This water gener- ally moves very slowly and the removal of contaminants in the ground water is also correspond- ingly slow. In addition, \some water pollution problems persist in ground water. There are some chemical compounds that still cause taste and odor problems even when diluted to almost un- detectable levels. Bacteriological problems and well problems related to bacteria are also per- sistent. In many cases, bacteria contaminating wells live and multiply in the soil and in the ground water upon which these wells draw. If a *ell owner's problem is traced to a neighbor's faulty sep- tic tank system or a nearby farm or industry, and these links can be established firmly with scien- tific evidence uncovered by ministry experts, the well owner has a strong case for civil action to recover damages. In many• cases, an industry, for example, will settle oat of court and pay for any problems it has caused simply for the sake of good public relations and , to maintain its status as a good corporate citi- zen. Industries and farm practices cannot be singled out as the only reason for well contamination problems. The major source for contamination is bacteriological contamination and one of the main causes for this simply growth. A community, expanding at a fast pace, eventually reaches the point where there are too many wells and too many septic tank systems for the ground- water supply to handle. At this point the only solution is for the ministry and the local -munici- pality or a group of small munici- palities to get together in thie de- velopment of water and sewage facilities for the area. These facilities can be quite costly if a community has to un- dertake them on its own. For this reason, the ministry encourages area treatment plans and also of- fers apital construction grants and financial assistance to keep these costs within reason. The outright grants for capital con- structiott& can range as high as 75 per cent. In summation, there are four main actions available:. 1. If the ministry finds a general problem in an area and deduces that this problem is likely to persist, assistance is available to the municipality for . an overall solution. 2. If there is a specific well problem from an industrial or farm source, the ministry will try and provide evidence for the well owner's' use and ministry per- sonnel see to a cleanup of the source. 3. If there is a specific problem from other sources, or any health hazard, the Medical Officer of ,Health handles it: 4. If a well owner suspects a water problem, or is just worried in case one might arise, the first person he should contact is the medical officer of health. WINDY 1973 In 1973, 1,100 tornadoes struck in 46 states r 208 days,. FR,EDDY FIXIT & BAERELL IF HAND RAILS ON THE PORCH OR CELLAR STAIRS ARE ROU6N AND UNFINISHED, WHY NOT MAKE IT SPLINTER FREE AND MORE VISIBLE IN DIM LIGHTING? BY SANDING THE WOOD AND GIVING IT A COUPLE OF COATS OF WHITE (LOSS ENAMEL YOU'LL FIND YOUR RAILINGS SHOW UP WELL IN ALMOST ANY LIGHT. IT'S SAFER,TOO. Copley News Service In the Quebec village of Wake- field, about 30 miles from Ottawa, the town fathers gath-. ered in solemn session the other day to take a first look at a brand new kind of toilet. This is the so- called Swedish Waterless toilet, °alias the "humus toilet", and the village council had purchased two of them for about $500 each. Seems that Wakefield residents have been responsible for letting too much of the unmentionable stuff reach the Gatineau River which flows past their doorsteps before it goes on to the nation's capital and the anti -pollution people have been warning them that this just can't go on. Ottawa has enough troubles already without adding Wakefield's sew- age to the mix. Well, the engineers made a scholarly study of the problem and told the village fathers that a proper sewage -disposal plant would'cost at least three-quarters of a million dollars, which is a lot of money for a place the size of - Wakefield. Several thousand dol- lars per family. So someone came up with the idea that maybe they should consider one of these toilets which doesn't meed a sewage system—a flushless af- fair. And that led to the buying of these new humus jobs which are reportedly being used on our west coast as r11 as in Sweden. The bum'us toilet, according to Wakefield's Building and Health Inspector, is a compact unit of polyethelene and it runs on elec- tricity. There are two small motors in it, one for the fan and the other to activate the stirrer. Below are two thermostatically heated boxes which are big enough so that they need be emptied but once a year or thereabouts. There are two little windows at the sides of these boxes to let you keep track of how well you're doing. But you've got to keep the heat on these boxes in order to have the correct humi- dity and temperature for the micro-organisms to remain func- tional. It is the micro-organisms, I take it, which have to do the dirty work. I have a picture of one of these wonderful gadgets in front of me now and it's about as pretty as any other john, I guess. But it looks more like an apartment - sized washing machine than any- thing else. Could lead ,to some confusion, I suppose, if you weren't wide awake at the time. Well, the Wakefield authorities are going to put their two new units to the test this year. One of them is going to get a real going- over from a family of six. Now while I'm quite willing to believe that a country town like Wakefield can't go on flushing messages that are going to end up at Parliament IJill, might I ask what was so wrong with that venerable institution which Wakefield and every other small town used to have a few years ago to take care of our biological duties? Meaning the little house behind the big house (Auntie's, Seaterville, The Two honer): Did- n't need any electric motors for them, and the original cost wasn't much either—a few boards and shingles and an after- noon of Grandpa's , spare .time. And in those days we didn't even know how to spell the word `pol- lution' ! I should know better than . to talk like this. We could, never bring the backhouse back, be- cause we would have . to build them with anion labour now and with government engineers standing by and government in- spectors to check them every time the wind changed: And so many regulations would have to be passed to safeguard us from the resulting hazards that the cost would be absolutely prohibi- tive: PHOTO FUN Look, listen and learn By GILBERT HILL Photography is a very per- sonal means of expression — as distinctive as, handwriting. It is, of course, an ideal way to "do your own thing" —. when, and if, you know. what your "thing" really is. • No better means has ever been , devised for honest, straight -forward objective re- porting, to reveal the beauties of the world generally over- looked by the casual observer, or its ugliness. But a camera is also a dead giveaway of affectation, the poser, the confused thinker, and the dishonest plagiarist who does his best to duplicate the work of others. The trick is to learn the use of a camera as a tool, just like the small child first learns to form letters, then words, in the course of learning to write — and it is easy to follow the development of a photogra- pher in the same way. But, photographers unfor- tunately, have an extremely difficult time just keeping up with the tools. New equip- ment, new materials, and new --or rediscovered — tech- niques must be studied con- stantly by the serious photog- rapher — and this is the real room for -the gt ity of camera Outgo ov the worms Thome igiet any Ooubt that whelk two or more p OM get together one Jo most certain to learn, tNN. be can , often, nut, it is the reel expett of the two who in* benefited, This concentration on tool techniques # .. ul ubte , the cause of some criticises' camera club Operations, 00 - cause it is easy to bre .So enamored of tools that" the production of pictures is ayes'. looked, And it is ,here that. photographers must all S. ware of the lecturer Who 4 knows exactly how every pie. ture should be made, with what lens and film, shutter speed and lens opening, what "lines • of composition," and which colors must be in a p+ tune to "lend impact." The most -- and the best that can be said for the speak- er is that he's telling you what works for him, Wen ,trap. fully! Just because he might say something useful "for the kind of pictures you want t to make. \ . The truth is that no two pho. tographers are likely to make a picture of the same scene anywhere alike. Travelers in the same group, seeing the same sights at the same tiMe, using essentially the' saute equipment, can heapected to come home with entirely dif= ., c 'ferent sets of pictures. Experienced salon judges have come to, expect at least a few pictures made of the same scene .to be submitted by different photographers year after year. But even these pictures differ, at fast slightly, because of thediRer- ences in lighting caused by the time of day. There isn't any doubt that photographers do influence each other. But the photogra- pher having fun never con- . sciously copies the work of anyone else ' and is striving hard to use his camera to tell . his impressions of the world in which he lives. And it is here that advanced techniques help because theycan•be used to "tell how I feel as well as what I saw," as one photogra- pher said recently. And that becomes the ulti- mate in honesty, real fun, when you get the story told whether.: -anyone else really • likes it or not: Falling can be serious accident A recent survey of farina acci- dents in Ontario indicated that falls continue to account for the major portion , of farm accidents. The typeof falls range from slips on ice to falls>from silos. The seri- ousness of these falls ranges from minor sprains to fatalities. Farming. is an occupation that forces farmers to tackle many hazardous jobs. If you have a job to do that may lead to a slip or a fall—think! Is there a safer way of doing it? GET HOOKED INTO CERTIFIED SEED—Crops are planned carefully for each growing season, with seed being one of the most important planning decisions. This young fisher- man hooked into a bag of the best when his catch turned out to be Certified Seed. Each year, the departments of agriculture across Canada, in co-operation with Agriculture Canada and the Canadian Seed Growers' Association, designate. March as Good Seed Month. To meet the requirements of certified seed, each crop variety is thoroughly tested for genetic purity and germinating ability. By planting only certified seed, a farmer is sure the crop has the quality and characteristics he's looking for. The advantages of Cer- tified Seed are many. But when it comes to crop improvement, the bag with the "Certi- fied" tag is the wisest choice. Make your catch Certified Seed. " (Photo by Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food)