[All] Fw: GRCA - Proposed Melancthon Mega-quarry

[Louisette Lanteigne]

Hi everyone
I would like to relay another map as produced by the GRCA as well an email provided from Donna Baylis to the GRCA in regards the delineation of the Grand River Watershed and how it sits in areas of the proposed Highland Quarry. 
This is current mapping being used by the GRCA and it clearly shows the boundary is over top the proposed Quarry area.
Louisette
--- On Fri, 7/22/11, Donna Baylis <dbaylis at xplornet.ca> wrote:

From: Donna Baylis <dbaylis at xplornet.ca>



 
 


 
This is the e-mail that I sent to the 
GRCA.
 
Donna
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Donna Baylis 

To: grca at grandriver.ca 
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:44 AM
Subject: Proposed Melancthon Mega-quarry


Attention:  Dave Schultz, Manager of 
Communications
 
Re:  The mega-quarry proposed by the 
Highland Companies in Melancthon Township, Dufferin County
 
Dear Mr. Schultz,
 
In a Waterloo Chronicle article dated July 20, 
2011, entitled "Quarry Quandry" you are quoted as saying that the proposed 
Melancthon mega-quarry  “is not in the Grand River Watershed, it is 
east of a shared boundary.  It is 
entirely contained within the Nottawasaga 
Watershed.”
 
I have 
attached a .pdf of the source protection boundary maps from the GRCA 
website.  The southwest extraction area of the proposed mega-quarry most 
definitely impacts the Grand River watershed.  Interestingly, 
there is so much water in this area that the Highland Companies focuses on the 
southwest extraction area as their first extraction operation to get a 
handle on the water management (see the Highland Companies video at http://www.highlandcompanies.ca/).
 
Even if there are differing versions of 
these GRCA boundary maps, the fact remains that the mega-quarry is close enough 
to have impact on the Grand River if for any reason the water in the 
area does not stick to the little blue lines on the map.  Also, keep in 
mind that the proposed technology is 
new, Highland is inexperienced and the whole proposal for 
the largest quarry in Canada untried enough to be dangerous.  I would 
think that the GRCA would be a little less cavalier with the 
responsibility of protecting the Grand River watershed and the drinking 
water of an estimated one million people.
 
Donna Baylis
Dunedin, ON
 
P.S. Link to article in the Waterloo 
Chronicle:

http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/uncategorized/quarry-quandary/ 
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