Comment ID: 210806 Mr. Nick…

Comment ID: 210806

Mr. Nick Colella Senior Project Evaluator Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Operations Division Environmental Approvals Branch 135 St. Clair Avenue West Floor 1 Toronto Ontario M4V 1P5 re: EBR Registry Number: 013-1043 Ministry Reference Number: 2629-AKAKE6 Dear Mr. Colella: As a citizen who is at risk of being greatly affected by the proposed Otter Creek wind project, I would like to address my concerns. The Otter Creek Wind Farm project should be suspended until the root cause of the water well problems of North Kent 1 Wind Farm, Marsh Creek Wind Farm and East Lake St. Clair Wind Farm can be determined and resolved. Here a list of concerns (as well as suggestions) that I share with my neighbours: 1) Grave concern over impacts to ground water quality and quantity due to construction and operation of Otter creek wind farm. 2) MOECC has a number of well interference complaints from Dover township and Chatham township that the MOECC has not properly investigated and these numerous files remain open. These need to be addressed before Otter Creek moves forward as we share the same geology. 3) At a minimum every well owner requires baseline well water testing and well flow rate testing prior to construction, prior to operation and at 5 year intervals throughout the 20 year operation lifespan. 4) Surveys of well owners from North Kent 1 were not properly conducted. Surveys do not insure a high level of enrollment for baseline well water testing. The minimum time period to enroll all Otter Creek well owners in each baseline testing period: prior to construction, prior to operation and at 5 year intervals during operational lifespan must be no less than 4 months. 5) Conditions section G and section H of the North Kent Wind REA Permit must be absolutely included in the Otter Creek REA permit. All vibration reports must publicly available. 6) Minimum testing must include turbidity, total dissolved solids, total suspended solids, conductivity, nitrate, nitrites, PH, Anion/Cation, Volatile Organic compounds, isotopes for ground water age, heavy metals including arsenic, mercury, lead, uranium and radio nucleotides including radium and radon. 7) Minimum testing must include particles distribution size studies for particles suspended in the well water, this includes shape, chemical composition and identification of dominate particle of each size range from 0.4 to 2000 microns. During particle size sample collection a triplicate sample for turbidity, total dissolved solids, total suspended solids, conductivity must be taken to correlate particle size distribution to turbidity values. (this is core essential) 8) Condition G7 for North Kent REA Permit is insufficient and must be replaced with a well compensation plan that provides-- at the proponents expense-- a water line and financial compensation for loss of property value due to environmental stigma from ANY IMPACTS to well water quality or quantity. Thank you for your consideration.