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<p>Your letter from the Minister is dated 2016. I was on the Ecological and Environmental Advisory committee of the Region of Waterlooat the time. EEAC was instrumental in opposing several earlier proposals for the road extension, some of which would have
gone straight through the middle of the best part of the parcel. Eventually a much revised proposal was designed that largely would go around the east and north sides of the natural area. </p>
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<p>The EEAC subcommittee delegated to that proposal spent an afternoon site visit examining the proposed section next to the proposed bridge over the freeway, the access/exit ramps associated with the new road, and possible impacts on the adjoining natural
features, including a small creek. It was EEAC which initially proposed a salt study in that area, as well an ecological restoration study for removal of an existing incipient Phragmites infestation which has the potential to spread into other pristine wet
areas, and a study of the declining population of an uncommon gentian in an adjoining pine plantation caused by the increasing shading of the area as the pines grow and get bushier. </p>
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<p>That part of the Hidden Valley area is not where an employment area might be situated. That would be on disturbed/cultivated land on the opposite side.</p>
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<p>One sad thing about this issue is that two very significant stresses continue to mess up the natural part of the Hidden Valley complex: illegal ATV traffic and widespread Phragmites contamination of the original natural wetlands. The potential environmental
effects of the proposed road are well considered, but ironically might never reach the magnitude of the incremental degradation caused by the ATVs and the scourge of the Giant European Reed that is occurring right now.</p>
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<p>- Greg Michalenko</p>
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<div dir="ltr">In the attachments is the Part II order I secured during the Hidden Valley area River Road extension. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">If the minister recognized the constraint of building a road to the point he issued an order to secure a Road Salt Study, surely that indicates there is significant risk if we were to place an employment area in the same location.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Thank you for your time.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Louisette Lanteigne</div>
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