[All] Fw: Minister's response to your e-mail of January 24, 2011 - File 53435

Louisette Lanteigne butterflybluelu at rogers.com
Thu Mar 31 22:43:32 EDT 2011


Hi folks

The Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing said the Minister of Environment 
may be open to discussion about a Waterloo Moraine Act.  He has invited me to 
speak further on the matter with the MOE Minister Wilkinson. I used to go to 
church with the entire Wilkinson family for years in Trenton where I grew up. We 
sat behind his family in church so it will be nice to see him again. See letter 
in the attachment for details. 


This election I've been working with the Liberal party and tonight I got a call. 
I'll be meeting Michael Ignatieff  tomorrow with the rest of the KW liberal 
supporters.  I'd like to ask him how much money the Liberal Party intends to 
allocate towards their proposed federal water protection act. 


I've been reviewing the Highland Quarry data and the Hydrogeology reports are 
absolutely outrageous.

I'm working on a draft response but in a nutshell I can tell you the following: 
They based their data on modflow models which is computer program to determine 
flow based on numbers from bore hole data. Since many of the surrounding land 
owners prohibited them from entering their property to test their wells, many of 
the bore hole readings used for Modflow were taken back in 1945. Without access 
to those wells they relied on the MOE info regarding the standard drinking water 
tests for residental wells as if that data could reasonably forcast the water 
quality impacts of this mega quarry. Modflow doesn't have much regard to geology 
or sediment type so all their projections on infiltration rates are pretty much 
fabricated on unsubstantiated claims. There is really no reasonable baseline 
data to work with in regards to this project. No spring thaw analysis, lack of 
12 month creek studies etc. Same old same old. 


If I were going to the OMB against this, the professionals needed would include 
a geologist/sediment expert and hydrologist.  They'd have a field day with this 
rubbish. Here's the EIS link if your curious:

http://www.highlandcompanies.ca/index.php/companies/melancthonquarry/technical_studies/


Have a good one folks

Lulu :0)
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Hi folks

The Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing said the Minister of Environment 
may be open to discussion about a Waterloo Moraine Act.  He has invited me to 
speak further on the matter with the MOE Minister Wilkinson. I used to go to 
church with the entire Wilkinson family for years in Trenton where I grew up. We 
sat behind his family in church so it will be nice to see him again. See letter 
in the attachment for details. 


This election I've been working with the Liberal party and tonight I got a call. 
I'll be meeting Michael Ignatieff  tomorrow with the rest of the KW liberal 
supporters.  I'd like to ask him how much money the Liberal Party intends to 
allocate towards their proposed federal water protection act. 


I've been reviewing the Highland Quarry data. The EIS studies are online here 
and the Hydrogeology reports are absolutely outrageous.

 http://www.highlandcompanies.ca/index.php/companies/melancthonquarry/technical_studies/


I'm working on a draft response but in a nutshell I can tell you the following: 
They based their data on modflow models which is computer program to determine 
flow based on numbers from bore hole data. Since many of the surrounding land 
owners prohibited them from entering their property to test their wells, many of 
the bore hole readings were taken back in 1945. Without access to those wells 
they relied on the MOE info regarding the standard drinking water tests for 
residental wells as if that data could reasonably forcast the water quality 
impacts of this mega quarry . Modflow doesn't have much regard to geology or 
sediment type so all their projections on infiltration rates are pretty much 
fabricated on unsubstantiated claims. There is really no reasonable baseline 
data to work with in regards to this project. No spring thaw analysis, lack of 
12 month creek studies etc. Same old same old. 




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To: butterflybluelu at rogers.com
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Hi folks

The Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing said the Minister of Environment 
may be open to discussion about a Waterloo Moraine Act. See letter in the 
attachment. He has invited me to speak further on the matter with the MOE 
Minister. I used to go to church with the entire Wilkinson family for years in 
Trenton where I grew up. We sat behind his family in church so it will be nice 
to see him again.

This election I've been working with the Liberal party and tonight I got a call. 
I'll be meeting Michael Ignatieff  tomorrow with the rest of the KW supporters.  
I'd like to ask him how much Liberal Party intends to allocate towards their 
proposed federal water protection act. 


I've been reviewing the Highland Quarry data. The EIS studies are online and 
it's absolutely outrageous. I'm working on a draft response but in a nutshell I 
can tell you the following:

-They based their data on modflow models which is computer program to determine 
flow based on numbers from bore hole data. Since many of the surrounding land 
owners prohibited them from entering their property to test their wells, the 
figures used were readings taken back in 1945. Without access to those wells 
they relied on the MOE info regarding the standard drinking water tests for 
residental wells as if that data could reasonably forcast the impacts of this 
mega quarry . With Modflow is no regard to geology or sediment type so all their 
projections on infiltration rates are pretty much fabricated on unsubstantiated 
claims. There is really no reasonable baseline data to work with in regards to 
this project. Typical stuff from Stantec 




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To: butterflybluelu at rogers.com
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Hi folks

The Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing said the Minister of Environment 
may be open to discussion about a Waterloo Moraine Act. See letter in the 
attachment. He has invited me to speak further on the matter with the MOE 
Minister. I used to go to church with the entire Wilkinson family for years in 
Trenton where I grew up. We sat behind his family in church so it will be nice 
to see him again.

This election I've been working with the Liberal party and tonight I got a call. 
I'll be meeting Michael Ignatieff  tomorrow with the rest of the KW supporters.  
I'd like to ask him how much Liberal Party intends to allocate towards their 
proposed federal water protection act. 


I've been reviewing the Highland Quarry data. The EIS studies are online and 
it's absolutely outrageous. I'm working on a draft response but in a nutshell I 
can tell you the following:
-They based their data on modflow models which is computer program where you 
basically punch in the numbers from bore hole data. Since many of the 
surrounding land owners prohibited them from entering their property to test 
their wells, the figures used were readings taken back in 1945!  There is no 
regard to geology or sediment type so all their projections on infiltration 
rates are as realistic as unicorn meat. There is really no reasonable baseline 
data to work with in 




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To: butterflybluelu at rogers.com
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Hi folks

The Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing said the Minister of Environment 
may be open to discussion about a Waterloo Moraine Act. See letter in the 
attachment. He has invited me to speak further on the matter with the MOE 
Minister. I used to go to church with MP Wilkinson for years in Trenton. We sat 
behind his family in church so it will be nice to see him again.

This election I've been working with the Liberal party doing all sorts of odd 
jobs like delivering signs etc. and I was just informed that I'll be meeting 
Michael Ignatieff 




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