[All] Costco: Why it's a bad idea

[Ginny Quinn]

Good  and hopefully influential   info   Lulu ..you've certainly done some
darn good homework on this.   I can't go to City hall Monday night   but
there's a few  good and intelligent   councilors   currently on Wloo
Council, who hopefully, will ask for more details  re this   proposed event
BEFORE  taking a vote.   It certainly seems to be  a traffic and
environmental disaster in the future   and    Right NOW !!!!    keep on
fighting.I'll be back.just don't know when yet.   I'll get your report   and
hopefully it will be a negative    which will be a POSITIVE   for Wloo and
the environment.    Ginny

 

From: All [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Louisette Lanteigne
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 7:46 PM
To: GREN2
Subject: [All] Costco: Why it's a bad idea

 

Hi folks

 

Now that the Part II order for Hidden Valley is over, I can think about
Costco and the first word that comes to mind is SALT.

 

We are paying millions to remediate Greenbrook wells and projects like the
West Side Lands had a zero thresh hold to exceed salt levels. How will
Greenbrook impact those same wellfields? Will the wells be closed due to
salt? 

 

We also have vinyl Chloride leaking at the Erb Street dump. Rather toxic
stuff. There is a way we can implement in situ bioremediation using enzymes
that will eventually neutralize the toxicity but if the salt kills off the
beneficial enzymes needed to make that happen we're stuck with the highest
level of toxicity. That's not good. 

 

Folks preach that beet root juice can replace salt. What they must consider
though is the fact that beet root is one of the highest naturally occurring
forms of nitrate. Spread that on the road where does it go? Right into our
storm drains, tributaries and the Grand River. What's the last thing the
Grand needs right now? Food for blue Green Algae aka NITRATES. 

Do these folks intend to build a storm water management pond? Do they want
geese pooping in that water with up to 5 lbs of nitrate and phosphate rich
droppings a day? Again, not a reasonable plan. In order to protect WATER
QUALITY and protect our WELLS for the long term, this project may need to be
axed.

 

We also much consider the fact this project is a giant heat island on the
West end of the city. What happens is that the storms of summer come rolling
in from the west, right off the cool moist moraine fields and meadow lands
and hit a hot dry paved thermal area where the heat causes the air to blast
straight up. This pushes hot thermals up and cold thermals down and Voila:
Tornado maker. I have three photos in the attachment to support. If this
were on the east end, I would not worry as much since the rains and winds
are strongest west to east not vice versa. This is a disaster in the making.
Things like this push moisture straight up creating very nasty clouds. Not
good. 

 

So in light of all these scenarios, it's up to us to ask the question: how
will these risks be mitigated? Reasonably, the proponent is the one with the
burden to prove they can build this safely. Neither the City, Region nor
anyone else can prove it can because we do not have access to all the data.
The proponent owns that. It's their duty to find the answers to address
these issues. Not ours.

 

Salt, Heat Island and Goose Poop. Those are the issues I'm thinking of. 

 

Lulu 

 

 

 

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