<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hi folks</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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? </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">So in light of all these scenarios, it's up to us to ask the question: how will these risks be mitigated? <span style="background-color:
transparent;">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.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Salt, Heat Island and Goose Poop. Those are the issues I'm thinking of. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial,
'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Lulu </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>