[All] Power Point: on Highland Quarry

[Norah & Richard]

Wow, This looks like a great public information ppt.. can we get it on 
the GREN website?  Thanks so much Lulu for putting it together.. Norah

On 13/06/2011 11:23 AM, Louisette Lanteigne wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I'll be speaking with Waterloo's Ecological Advisory Council regarding 
> the proposed Highland Quarry in Melancthon.
>
> The power point is in the attachments. I tried to show both the 
> localized and broader scope issues for onsite, impacts here and 
> impacts downstream affecting Erie.
>
> In the late 1980's the US Army Corp did a study on the Ogallala seeing 
> if it would be viable to pull water from the Great Lakes to refill it. 
> They scrapped the idea basically because it could literally drain the 
> lakes. Political hot potato to say the least.
>
> I can't help wondering if perhaps this quarry is being used to augment 
> hydrogeology to bump up volumes heading either to Erie or the 
> Ogallala. What happens if more water goes south than north as a result 
> of this project?  I believe there is a place in Wisconsin where the 
> spring thaw volumes overwhelm their local dams introducing Lake Erie 
> water into the subwatersheds to the south currently. This community is 
> exempt from diversion legislation as a result.  This quarry may act as 
> a means to increase those water volumes without overtly indicating 
> that this is a diversion scheme.
>
> Either way in my view, the IJC must get involved with this project 
> ASAP and I would like GREN to help facilitate a written correspondence 
> to ask for that if possible.
>
> Lulu
>
>
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