I am writing in opposition…

I am writing in opposition to this proposed amendment.

The current site was originally built to accomodate a small amount of local waste, with little impact to the local farming and small urban municipality.

It was never intended, by the neighbourhood who allowed it, to turn into an industrial waste processing site, open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

6000 MT per day is a large amount of debris. While I realize that the applicant is submitting a worse case scenario, generally what happens is things go to the extreme rather quickly, even if this was not the intention of the applicant.

Waste construction and other materials, soil, etc., should be kept at the jurisdictions they are generated in. It is unfair to find unwitting locations to pass off their contaminated waste too.

This is a relatively undeveloped piece of land, and is located directly next to surface water as part of the managed St. Clair Conservation Authority. It is no place to be locating large piles of asphalt shingle, asbestos and other materials.

In addition, the road network leading to this location was not designed to handle a significant increase in truck traffic. This looks like it could be close to 10+ truckloads per hour, going both ways (in and out). Other locations, like the Watford dump, are located right next to the 402, with proper road access. This is a busy farming community, with seasonal farming traffic from things like tomato wagons, etc that will be greatly impacted by this traffic.

The dump at Petrolia, for example, caused much disruption when it was at it's peak and it only had grain farming traffic. This is an additional level.

The traffic will likely not come from the south (through Dresden, as drivers will not want to drive their loads through town. They will instead come off the 401, head down Kent Road 15, up Dawn Mills road (a secondary road) and across through the Croton Road (also a secondary road). This will be impossible to police and stop, and will increase traffic on roads with limited to no shoulders, and will insufficient base to support the weight.