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P.O. Box 460 St.Catharines ON L2R 6V9
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To the Mayor and members of Council for the Town of Niagara on the Lake,
We have been asked by Mr. Jack Lowery to make a presentation today to review the history of the development as it relates to the fence around the municipal storm water wet pond for the development area known as the Settlement of St. David’s which area included the Paxton Farm lands to the north. Kerry T. Howe Engineering limited was the engineering firm of record for the development responsible for municipal servicing Design. I was the design engineer for municipal servicing. The planning firm was Hynde Paul Associates
- Inc. The road crossings for 4 Mile Creek required the services of Hatch Acres Environmental Division to deal with
Fisheries concerns in the watercourse. The landscape plan for the wet pond was prepared by John Morley and Associates. The planning process commenced in 2003. The draft plan submission required a municipal servicing brief to confirm how the servicing requirements in the St. David’s Master Servicing plan would be implemented for the Settlement properties. The draft plan of subdivision was filed in August 2004 which application included a detailed Municipal servicing Brief prepared by Kerry T. Howe Engineering Limited. The initial wet pond landscape plan was prepared in April 30, 2005 Schedule 1. At that time the planners were considering a walkway along 4 Mile Creek coming up into the wet pond area and passing through the wet pond
- nto Paxton Lane. That public access to the Wet pond area possibility was to our knowledge not acceptable to
Public works and all plan submissions for the wet pond area maintained a security fence on the south, east and north property limits. The turning circle at the Paxton Farm limit was to be removed in the future which would alter the access for maintenance. The future access was to be gated when the cul-de-sac was removed and the access realigned to suit the final road extension.. The existing slope on the west side was heavily treed and created a natural barrier to access so that boundary limit was not fenced. The fencing material and was not specified as other agencies , Public works and the developer had not finalized types at the time of submission of the drawings.. The final design brief for the subdivision was submitted to the Town in December 2005.The final approved plans were signed on behalf of the Town by Earth Tech (Canada) Inc. May 01, 2007. The final plans maintained the security fence locations noted above Schedule 2. The landscape plan was to be modified to eliminate the gravel walkways renaming them grass walkways to match the approved plans. The south double gate off Paxton lane was intended for maintenance equipment access to the wet pond outlet control structure directly. The single gate was to provide access for the Golf Course to traverse the wet pond on their easement across the site to their pump facility at Four Mile Creek. Neither gate was or Public Access to the Wet pond site. The perimeter grass access at the top
- f the pond allows equipment access to clean sediment from the pond pools.