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

[Eleanor Grant]

This picture of Erb St W may bring back memories for you as it did for me.
Thanks to the Waterloo Historical Society.

Barn at Rummelhardt Rd & Erb W in 1987.  I later became best friends with
some of the guys who made this sign!

http://vitacollections.ca/kpl-gsr/details.asp?ID=75807

Eleanor
 On Apr 5, 2014 10:09 PM, "Ginny Quinn" <ginnypq at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> *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
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> Hi folks
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Salt, Heat Island and Goose Poop. Those are the issues I'm thinking of.
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> Lulu
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