The Ontario Ground Water…

The Ontario Ground Water Association respectfully submits that any and all aggregate extraction that exposes groundwater or removes sufficient overburden to expose groundwater in any manner should be treated extremely cautiously and considered dangerous. In fact not permissible.
Sufficient study is never enacted to ensure how groundwater aquifers are connected, there is too much speculation and not enough proof.
Any type of recycling in pits with exposed groundwater is foolhardy.
Any type of refuse storage in former pits or quarries is equally foolhardy, extremely dangerous in time.
Ontario's most valuable resource is its' abundance of fresh groundwater.
Please consider usable groundwater more valuable than gold, it must be protected at all costs.
One may live without building products but not water and surface water is increasingly polluted.

K.C. Craig Stainton
Executive Director
Ontario Ground Water Association