<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="padding:5px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);width:396px;height:18px;color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><a style="padding:1px 0px;border:currentColor;width:100%;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Gj75flGaIaa3FuT0pGUExkc3M/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank"><img style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; vertical-align: bottom;" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom" dir="ltr">Creekside pond pipe draining to stormwater sewe...</span></a></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Well... if the MOE was told that the new pipe is plugged and no water is draining to the SWM ponds on the east side of the property, then they have been misinformed as I was by the GRCA and the City (see surface water and pond water draining from the pipe in attached video taken July 17/15 two weeks after they started). This video and the attached pictures were sent to the GRCA and the City on Jul 19/15. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Unless they've capped the pipe in the last few days, it is likely that the pond is still being drained and will continue until the GRCA and MTE/Church sort out what to do.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I believe the GRCA are okay with the pond being low in the meantime because historically it has dried up depending on yearly rainfall and temperatures. I checked the aerial photography at the University of Waterloo comparing several years, and as stated by the consultants on the North Waterloo Scoped Subwatershed Study, clearly the wetland has persisted since 1930.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I can appreciate that the GRCA is concentrating on preserving the wetland at this point, and not interested in pointing fingers, but I want to. I want Creekside Church to be held accountable by our community and their church community for this callous, purposeful act. Their decision to drain the pond has likely caused the demise of many of the turtles and frogs that inhabited that pond, including several overwintering Midland Painted Turtles, part of the criteria used to determine whether or not this pond should earn significant amphibian and turtle breeding candidate status.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">My concern now is how long will it take to get water back into the pond, and will we agree with what the GRCA considers to be acceptable water levels.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Very frustrating process.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Deb Swidrovich<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:11 PM, butterflybluelu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:butterflybluelu@rogers.com" target="_blank">butterflybluelu@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(87,87,87);font-size:85%">Sent from my Samsung device</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "Knapper, Amanda (MOECC)" <<a href="mailto:Amanda.Knapper@ontario.ca" target="_blank">Amanda.Knapper@ontario.ca</a>> <br>Date: 07-23-2015 3:55 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: <a href="mailto:butterflybluelu@rogers.com" target="_blank">butterflybluelu@rogers.com</a> <br>Cc: "Brooks, Susan (MOECC)" <<a href="mailto:Susan.L.Brooks@ontario.ca" target="_blank">Susan.L.Brooks@ontario.ca</a>> <br>Subject: 2015-1794 - Wetland - Creekside Church, 660 Conservation Drive <br><br>
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