Comment ID: 210788 Hello,…

Comment ID: 210788

Hello, As a resident of the otter creek wind farm area, I would like to address the concerns I have with the project. I have been completely disgusted in the way the Ministry, the Municipality and most of all the 3 Windmill companies in this area have dealt with our water issues first and foremost. The Aquifer we are above is very different than most of Ontario and with all the problems in Dover, from the Marsh Creek and East st clair projects around 50, some can talk most are gagged and now the 5 wells in the NK1 project. I cannot believe this is still going forward. Do we need to loose more safe water? I could continue with a couple pages but this typing is not my strong point. 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. 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.