[All] Exploding house in area of previous infringements

[Louisette Lanteigne]

Hi folks

Been busy today gathering all the old photos I took of oil spills and diesel spills from the subdivision where that house blew up on Activa Avenue. 

I contacted the Waterloo Regional Police and provided them with the info in the attachments. I basically told them that right now 
we have subdivisions being built without reasonable base line data. This puts new communities at risk for sink holes, broken water mains, broken gas lines, pot holes, floods,  structural integrity issues all because the developers and their engineering firms wanted to undermined the true water risks. They cut corners by doing shoddy work to get approvals and when they work is proven insufficient at the OMB they simply ignore the rulings and carry on. They don't care because the risks are eventually transferred to home owners and to the to city who claims responsibility for the infrastructure. In the end, it's taxpayers who foot the bill when things go wrong. It's their lives at risk, their homes and water supplies at risk. 



Engineering firms do the science on behalf of a developer and when they sign off, they are no longer liable for the work they do but once issues happen, they are the first to profit from the shoddy data. They get the re-mediation jobs to fix the mess and to clean up our wells. If there are well closures they stand to profit from a Lake Erie Pipeline. What is to prevent destruction for profit scenarios? 

I have informed the RCMP about all this but right now mandate is heavily centred on issues of drugs rather than municipal fraud. I've also spoken with Mike Amato at the York Regional Police who told me these issues are happening across Ontario right now. Water infrastructure is one of the largest sectors of construction corruption right now. I fear this is exactly what we are experiencing in our region. We are the largest region in Canada dependent on groundwater and we're building on top of it using shoddy data. 

I can't help but to wonder what roll this might have had in that home explosion if any. 

I drove to the site today and that house was clearly on a hill slope that appears to be an outwash moraine formed by glacial melt. If you do bore holes it typically shows these area as being full of clay but it is a false view. The sand and sediment on hill slopes like this fan out as the glacier melted forming a shingle like distribution with many open spaces of infiltration in between. Bore holes won't reveal this but the ground penetrating radar will. I'd be willing to bet there was water under that house. Just my two cent's worth.

Never the less if any folks would like to offer any tips to the police regarding this case the person to contact is Constable Crook at russel.crook at wrps.on.ca 

I can't help but to appreciate the duality his ironic name. Some folks hear a name like that and think of a thief. I prefer to view it as the crook of a shephard's staff. Designed to protect and guide. 

The way I see it, any chance to inform the police of the shenanigans of our area developers is a good idea by hook or by Crook. 

Lulu :0)
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