[All] Fw: Comment by Louisette Lanteigne re: ZCA 11-19

Mon Apr 11 19:33:14 EDT 2022

 FYI
Lulu 
   ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Lanteigne <water.lulu at yahoo.ca>To: communications at wilmot.ca <communications at wilmot.ca>; Karen Redman <kredman at regionofwaterloo.ca>; Regional Councillors <regionalcouncillors at regionofwaterloo.ca>; Catherine Fife - CO <cfife-co at ndp.on.ca>; MNRF Fish and Wildlife Policy Branch (MNRF) <mnrf-fishandwildlifepolicybranch at ontario.ca>; Andrea Horwath <ahorwath-qp at ndp.on.ca>; Mike Schreiner <mschreiner at ola.org>; Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <premier at ontario.ca>; Minister (MMAH) <minister.mah at ontario.ca>; Minister MOECC (MOECC) <minister.moecc at ontario.ca>Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022, 06:13:36 p.m. EDTSubject: Comment by Louisette Lanteigne re: ZCA 11-19
 Dear Council members.
Jackson Harvest Farms proposes to rezone approximately 57ha to allow a gravel pit operation, as well as permission to import concrete and recycle asphalt. 

In the the attachments is the Lafarge's Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) Safety Data Sheet According To Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 58 / Monday, March 26, 2012 / Rules And Regulations And According To The Hazardous Products Regulation (February 11,  2015)
Asphalt contains benzene and is produced with petro-chemicals that are highly toxic and known to cause cancer. To recycle it over top the Waterloo Moraine adjacent to natural wetland habitats with salamanders, turtles & endangered barn swallows is in my view, unreasonable. The fact these animals exist here shows good water qualiity. The Barn Swallows are endangered. I don't see critical habitat mapping being done. I don't see toxicological reports on the potential impacts of the aggregate recycling at this location. I don't know how these risks will be reasonably mitigated because there is such a lack of data. 

We have been destroying our local water supply in Waterloo Region project by project for many years without regard for the totality of the damage or the need to protect primary recharge water areas. The Ontario Source Water Protection Act only protects areas around wellheads and intakes not the natural recharge areas. It has no regard for protecting the the water quality, water flow or flow rates from the actual well fields to the wells. I complained to the MOE about how Stantec was doing the Source Water Protection Act studies and yet they have conflicts of interest because they stand to profit from well remediation, construction in the Moraine area as well as the pipeline to Erie prospect. The reality is we can't even keep zebra mussels out of our Nuclear plant water intake without spending millions each year. Over a 10 year span we've lost 65 million on that issue alone. I presented that data to the CNSC and provided the evidence from Ecometrix to back that up. 

We have best water quality in our aquifers right now and we need to prioritize the protection of it, especially during the age of a climate crisis otherwise we'll be drinking recycled effluent at the base of Lake Erie that is recycled without the ability to remove pharmaseudicals and smaller particulate matters. We're measuring Covid in the water right now. Would you like to drink the glass from downstream? We have lives dependent on these shared resources and by law we have duty to protect it not only for our generation but for future generations.  Stop squandering the lands that support lives. 

Destroying farms and aquifers for aggregates and highways is a bad economic decision that risks economic losses in perpetuity. The water numbers don’t include use in manufacturing or farming or to support jobs or growth, food production or to simply maintain a healthy environment we can all survive in. Our region is the second largest food belt in Ontario. We have to put food and water first to protect everything from our environment to economy to human lives and biodiversity. Water is the web that binds us to all this. We have the duty to be good stewards of all this. Two charts show the economic impact and I include those in the attachments. 

Road salt contamination is evident in Regional wells. Topography doesn't protect wells from salt contamination. Salt heads to area wells and if the well is watering crops with salty water that can kill the plants and the biota in needed to maintain the quality of soil and water. Two illustrations of studies done by UW Professor Mike Stone done in Waterloo Region shows the risks of roadsalts. Mike Stone is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management. His research interests are broadly related to the study of land use change and its impacts on sediment transport dynamics and water quality in both natural and built environments. With all the truck loads anticipated to take place associated with this project, where is the salt mitigation strategy reports? Can the contamination even be reasonably contained? What about the sensitive areas off site that would be impacted by the route of these trucks going to and from? I'm sure they must cross other sensitive areas. Are we even reasonably quantifying the impacts of the trucks offsite impacts? What about the impact of the diesel and smog and airborn particulates on the crops and wetlands of adjacent properties? It's not like pollution remains in neat and tidy little self contained bubbles. We are using little red lines on maps as if all the potential impacts magically stay self contained in those imaginary lines. That is how we plan these kind of studies but we have to take a mature hard realistic look at what the actual realistic consequences are because our days are numbered if we don't prevent climate collapse. 

Canada's Anthropogenic footprint has done wide scale damage to our environment coast to coast with the degradation of carbon storage and forested areas, the destruction of soil health as we introduce pollution into the environment. We must plan better than this. 

If there no rubric to say no it is not Democracy. If there is no value given to maintaining life supports, there will be no life. Photos of the damages done are in the attachments. 

We must do better than this.
Louisette Lanteigne700 Star Flower Ave. 
Waterloo OntN2V 2L2 

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