lf~ ~1:~:lcouncil Sq*'2\?D\O To Angie Cathrie Clerk to make a presentation about the chemicals in sewage going into the lake and land and alternate solutions to consider in my concern over the environment and the destruction occurring in our lake, lands and rivers Page 25 of 171 1:00 p.m. Norm Gurr re Chemicals in sewage Going into the Lake and Land and Alternate Solutions to Consider (I.E.)
'OC-~iOlithjimIJito~nt:tJDrmlU-I'UJeIfD~!r service before amalgamation who has,:-spent 01'-" U ~ears money and taken the time to write this with nothing to gain but ¢he environment. - ASK What happens to the mass C1L.chemicals that enter Central Sewage Plants? A PLEA TO STOP - think GET THE FACTS - DO RESEARCH - BEFORE YOU RUSH INTO A CENTRAL SEWAGE SYSTEM THAT SCIENTISTS ARE PROVING VERY WRONG· ENVIRONMENTALLY, IN DESTROYING OUR LANDS, THE LAKE AN,D OUR RIVERS. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME BY AT LEAST EXAMINE THIS PRESENTATION AND MY SOURCES FIRST. THERE IS NO RUSH. And I add = not to say 'budget breaking' of our municipalities and residents when there are other non polluting and far better and far cheaper alternatives even beyond septic tanks. Then there is the huge future savings caused by no wages and energy and upkeep through not operating THE EXTRA water and sewage plants. I have no interest in selling any project as a 79 year old retired school principal from Toronto. • nor in South Bruce or Sauble. My only interest is my huge concern about what we have done to the world's environment and especially Lake Huron whose fish have been destroyed by the sewage outflows from central sewage plant [albeit by other causes such as overfishing, invasion of foreign species - etc.] in my life span. The Ontario government in its out of date policies will say all is ok. Its answer to sludge, Page 26 of 171 1:00 p.m. Norm Gurr re Chemicals in sewage Going into the Lake and Land and Alternate Solutions to Consider (I.E.)
<which is only part of the problem, is building a plant in Grey to process sludge. It . another tax burden, Please check my research yourselves. I CAN GIVE YOU WEB SITES TO CHECK IT OUT INCLUDING Boston University School of Public Health - Cornell University- a number of CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES and USA scientists: USA government organilations such as The USA Geology Survey, European governments and studies. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ • In 1989, New York City had a major problem with sewage sludge which was being dumped in the ocean. The sludge was too contaminated with toxic pollutants and had created a huge zone depleted of marine life. Thus Congress had banned ocean and lake dumping because it was destroying the ocean environment. What no one understands is tha.t we are doing the same thing with our central sewage plants. In the past, all that was flushed was just human feces. There is a major change in the past century. CHEMICALS. I ask you, ''Where do all of the 5,000 modern chemicals over which we have no control - that we flush and dump down our toilets and drains go? CHECK IT OUR = NO SEWAGE PLANT REMOVES THEM. Yes they kill germs but= Chenicals either end up in the outflow or in sewage sludge that is dumped on farmer's fields and thus into our food and into our water tables and rivers and lakes. Page 27 of 171 1:00 p.m. Norm Gurr re Chemicals in sewage Going into the Lake and Land and Alternate Solutions to Consider (I.E.)
As part of a study, = \ There is a great deal of research information I can share with you from the world's top scientists, and government agencies in the USA, Canada, and Europe that reflect a growing concern and need to eliminate central sewage plants. They show clearly how flven small amounts of these chemicals are destroying fish and all marine life. IT TAKES ONLY ONE PART PER BILLION of women's birth control pills of which 80% is 'peed' and other estrogen like chemicals in soaps etc, to change mail fish into females. = extinction. There are uncounted other chemicals that harm or destroy in what are called ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS. These with the nerve system operate our bodies and all life. PROOF Before the1970's one could catch ,large creels of perch - bass -pickerel - pike- muskies - cat fish etc. in the Saugeen River and surrounding lake as the photos of our family show. The year they opened the Southampton sewage plant the fish disappeared. There are no fish caught in the Saugeen or surrounding lake now except for the stocked salmon that are in deep water or migrate to attempt to spawn. There is Page 28 of 171 1:00 p.m. Norm Gurr re Chemicals in sewage Going into the Lake and Land and Alternate Solutions to Consider (I.E.)
,almost no life on which the LARGE fish feed like minnows - and carides [small shrimp] insects in the silt,s etc •• I have material that shows that today most of the bloaters and ale wives that large fish seed on are almost extinct it:' Lake Huron. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LOOK UP THE BETTER SOLUTIONS; There are many kinds of so called· dry toilets that are combined with grey water [clothes human washing]. Surprisingly they smell less - and are cleaner- more attractive cheaper to buy and operate as I show over central plants. - And they are environmentally non polluting of the environment THE BRONX ZOO with one million visitors and highly used washrooms use them. There is no sewage leaving the zoo or even the washrooms into a central system in New York. Also - MANY TOWNS AND COUNTIES IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES - SIMON FRAZER UNIVERSITY - - OFFICE TOWERS AND STORES - PEGGY'S COVE- - MAJOR USA PARKS - NON GAS STATION REST STATIONS ON THE 401 IN ONTARIO. - MUSKOKA AND HALIBURTON +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Page 29 of 171 1:00 p.m. Norm Gurr re Chemicals in sewage Going into the Lake and Land and Alternate Solutions to Consider (I.E.)
,THE BASIC LAW AFFECTING THE ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT IS THAT IF THERE IS DOUBT - THE ENVIRONMENT COMES FIRST. I can give you its documents like 'Developing a Consultation Plan.' As well as the above MOE laws that are ignored. . THE TOWN OF SOUTH BRUCE CAN BE AN ONTARIO LEADER IN GETTING RID OF THESE PLANTS. There should be money and support available. The following comes from the Boston University School of public health written by Abby Rockefeller the multi billionaire who devoted her life to ending central sewage plants. IT HAS BEEN ADOPTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS AS PART OF ITS POLICY TO SAVE THE EARTH'S WATERS i , Page 30 of 171 1:00 p.m. Norm Gurr re Chemicals in sewage Going into the Lake and Land and Alternate Solutions to Consider (I.E.)
Sewage Treatment Plants vs. the Environment H0MB Wl!I!KLY MUSINGS Abby Rockefeller PROJECTS T'r.cKNOUlGY 1. Conventional wastewater treatment systems (both 1'1100'08 on-site septic systems and centralized collection and UORARY treatment) are not designed to produce usable end- I.INKS products. Failure to solve the overall problem of WAYS YOU pollution caused by the waste materials received by CANIIELP these systems is, thus, a function of their design. CONTACT US 2. Spending any resources-':money, time, energy, materials--on the extension of central treatment, either of the sewer lines and hook-ups or of the level of treatment, should be understood to be nothing more than a waste of all those resources. The time, money, and energy should be spent' instead in developing an understanding of what solving the problems now caused by these "wastes" really means and in developing a long-range plan (necessarily educational as well as technical) to accomplish this. 3. Pollution prevention, reuse of industrial chemicals, sewage reduction, and water conservation should be maximized. Only thorough source separation can make instead of "wastes" products that are environmentally benign: organic products that are life-compatible; heavy metals and toxic organic and inorganic materials that are containable and reusable within the industries from which they come. It is by the same means also--by the conversion of "waste" materials to usable products at the point of generation--that both the immense economic and environmental costs of central treatment can be avoided. Page 31 of 171 1:00 p.m. Norm Gurr re Chemicals in sewage Going into the Lake and Land and Alternate Solutions to Consider (I.E.)
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