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In October 2018 Orillia city council approved a sewage pumping station to be constructed on Cedar Island Road very close to a waterway that flows into Lake Couchiching.
This location is reclaimed land and flood plain. Myself and others told council that, from an environmental perspective, this was a terrible location for a sewage pumping station and an accidental spill would pollute Lake Couchiching but our protestations were ignored.
I subsequently filed an appeal to the province requesting this project be subject to a thorough environmental assessment and I am still waiting for a response.
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"We're looking at every entrance into that pumping station. Where it came from, because this is groundwater that is infiltrating the sanitary sewer where it shouldn't be in the first place." (The Mayor)
- "We're sympathetic to the residents. This was a tragic event that happened." 65 millimetres of rain fell over the weekend. "This is an extreme climate change weather event that occurred... It was a huge downpour of water that came down at one time." (President of the waste department)
- "They told me straight out on the phone - the gentleman - that the plant itself overflowed and flooded out." (the homeowner).
Orillia
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