I am writing to express my…

I am writing to express my opposition to this plan.

Farms, farmers and farm land should not become dumping grounds for city construction waste.

We must find better solutions for such disposals.

Fly ash contains acidic, toxic, and radioactive matter. This ash can contain lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium, and uranium. Any leaching from this disposal site could potentially render surrounding farmland and the Sydenham River itself toxic for hundreds of years to come.

Farmers in this whole region still rely on well water for drinking water, farm and home use.
Poisoning the water table in this region would be a genocide on this community. Will this corporation be held liable for these impacts a hundred years from now? Not likely.

Any approvals should require the company to report annually on exactly what toxins have been dumped there and in what quantities.

Any approval should come with a 100% responsibility on the company to test the ground water and the soils surrounding the site annually and publicly report findings to the community and to the Ministry. Any approval should put 100% liability on the company for clean-up and this liability should extend for the full life span of the chemicals dumped there.

Have you studied the length of persistence of fly ash and compared it to the life span of the materials that are proposed to hold it? If you have not studied this and ensured that the storage method is fool-proof over the long term, then you should not approve the project.

There is likely no LONG TERM safe method of storing this waste.