[All] Help protect Rockway Senior's Centre

[Louisette Lanteigne]

Hi folks
 
There is an online petition to keep Rockway Senior's Centre open at this website: 

http://s283680335.onlinehome.us/petition/rockway.php
 
And a quick note: Salt is toxic to amphibian species. Environment Canada noted that fact years back when they were reassessing the impacts of road salts. 
 
Lulu :0)

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Ginny Quinn <ginny at kw.igs.net> wrote:


From: Ginny Quinn <ginny at kw.igs.net>
Subject: Re: [All] Mosquitos from SWM ponds not swamp
To: "Louisette Lanteigne" <butterflybluelu at rogers.com>, all at gren.ca
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 7:19 PM





LULU    Good for you reacting to this and doing the 'challenge'  Sounds like it worked.  Frogs not only don't like salt...I wonder if it kills them  and therefore no singing.     Ginny
Currently we have another Kitchener problem...the staff has recommended  "closing the Rockway Seniors Center on King St. by Rockway Gardens.   I know we've reared a "throw away generation at present"  but I'm not in favour of throwing away our 70-80 and 90 year olds  who frequent Rockway and were part of the History of Kitchener.  Read todays Record for Jacqui 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Louisette Lanteigne 
To: all at gren.ca 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 7:06 PM
Subject: [All] Mosquitos from SWM ponds not swamp






Hi folks
 
Back in 2008 the City of Cambridge was getting a number of complaints regarding the many mosquitos plaguing a subdivision that backs on to the area of the Portuguese Swamp around Townline Road.  A a precaution for  "West Nile Virus" they were considering depositing larvacide in the swamp but I did a little research and dug up hard core data proving the presence of Jeffersons there so I wrote Cambridge Council (and the MNR) an email stating it would be a direct violation of the Species at Risk Act, Provincial Policy Statement, Regional and City policy if they dared to do this.  I provided them with the relevant passages from each legislation for their reference.Fortunately they chose to do a feasibility study for a program to control nuisance mosquitoes in the Portuguese Swamp area instead.
 
In Today's KW Record, it shows that the problem mosquitos were actually NOT from the swamp area. 70% of that population prefer to snack on cold blooded critters instead of humans. They found the problem bugs were coming from the salt ridden Storm Water Management Ponds and in water contained in the debris left by area residents.
http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/666093
 
By the way, if you drive by a natural pond, the frogs sing all the time on a warm night. Go by an SWM pond and you have dead silence. Frogs simply don't like the salt. No predators = lots of mosquitos.
 
Lulu :0)



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