Pls see the attached…

Pls see the attached regarding the Dresden recycling / dump matter proposed by York1.

I live on Croton Line, about 5 mins east of Dresden, right on the Sydenham River. We’ve been here 36 years. I loved learning our river is home to several aquatic species at risk for certain mussels and fish and reptiles. It’s the only place in all of Canada if not North America for some of these species!
Here’s a link for exact info from the SCRCA (St Clair Region Conservation Authority) re; the SAR (species at risk) back from a 2018 newsletter … copy and paste to find and read it.
scrca.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SAR-Newsletter-2018.pdf

Regarding this waterways concern I relay the following;
On display at the recent town hall mtg was their limited hydrology exhibit which upon questioning showed that the proposed storm ponds would indeed overflow during one those hundred year rain events, going directly into Mollys Creek, which in turn empties into the Sydenham only 1 km or so away. And we had some of those rain events over the past few years and as we all know these events are occurring way more than once in a hundred years especially w climate change changes. It would absurd to think a construction waste site would not contaminate the waterways via any surface drainage. Who knows what crap could be in construction waste. It’s not just timber and concrete but asbestos and electrical materials. And so many composite materials w various glues for example. And what’s to prevent local water wells from consequential contamination.

Water concerns are only one aspect. With the proposed volume of debris to be trucked in from all over Ontario there are so many other concerns like NOISE, traffic and infrastructure, real-estate devaluation. The list is long. York1 is asking to be allowed to operate the facility 24 / 7 ! Imagine the noise , the disruption to local traffic especially as Dresden is basically a farming community, in which there is a ConAgra processing plant that does a huge tomato run. I can visualize transport trucks stuck behind slow moving tomato wagons, right thru town, spewing diesel fumes all the while.
Nobody in their right mind would allow such a proposal to go forward. Our local Chatham-Kent councillors voted unanimously, 14 -0 , to oppose the York1 proposal.