<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Waterloo Chronicle has an online poll asking: </span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="" style=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Should the Wilmot Line be improved to allow more traffic flows on the west side of the city?</span><br class=""
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On June 6, 2006, work crews along Wideman Road cut an aquifer resulting in flooding of the area, the installation of over 100 wells and the draining of the area into Clair Creek which may or may not have resulted in fish kills. Let's not repeat past mistakes! </span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="" style=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wilmot Line still floods. There was a flood sign up as of today, May 10th. The
area has shallow aquifers and the subdivision had a zero <span id="misspell-4" class="" style=""><span class="" style="">thresh hold</span></span> to exceed salt limits for the <span id="misspell-5" class="" style=""><span class="" style="">Green brook</span></span> wells and that is not including the potential impacts of Wilmot line being paved. Greenbrook provides 5% of our water supply. </span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="" style=""></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">OMB hearing </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">PL091182 was regarding Wilmot Line because the EA for the roadway was getting to expensive for Activa to pay for due to the delay. As a quick fix, the OMB allowed Wilmot to be paved to the Columbia Road extension and the rest of the road was to remain unpaved. The developer was to pay for all the costs of this. Here is the ruling: <a href="http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/e-decisions/pl091182-May-06-2010.pdf">http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/e-decisions/pl091182-May-06-2010.pdf</a></span></span></div><div class="yui_3_16_0_7_1399777289518_213" style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><br></span></div><div class="yui_3_16_0_7_1399777289518_213" style="text-align: start;
font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;">Today</span> there was a long line of traffic with vehicles heading to the Waterloo landfill with delays on both westbound and Eastbound lanes on </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">Erb</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"> st. The weekends always have the heaviest traffic for the dump. There were people with garden debris, home renovations, construction and landscape companies etc. We need to assure traffic studies take place during the busy weekend period to get the delta level for traffic flow. </span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family:
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