I attended the MoE session…

I attended the MoE session in Ramara on March 3 and found it very inadequate. The easiest and fastest way to reduce the levels of phosphorus in Lake Simcoe is to immediately ban the use of phosphates in laundry detergents and dishwasher detergents. Every day hundreds of thousands of people are flushing them down their drains and they end up in our waterways. Another major source of phosphorus and leachate is the City of Orillia's 2 landfills located right on the shore of Lake Simcoe! The MoE just issued a report on that to the city in November 2009. But you haven't legislated them to take immediate action to rectify this serious situation! Also septic tank sewage is now being spread on our farmland and ends up in the groundwater. That is totally sickening and outrageous! How can you allow that to happen? Septic sewage is loaded with all sorts of chemicals including cancer causing carcinigens, synthetic hormones and antibiotics fed to animals that we consume, chlorine, naptha, ammonia, formaldehyde etc. found in household cleaners and laundry and personal care products that people dump down their drains every day. The human waste isn't the issue, it's organic, but the chemicals are. They are now contaminating the soil where our food supply is grown! No wonder cancer is out of control when our food is grown in this chemical soup!! I use tee tree oil household cleaners and laundry and personal care products I buy from a wellness company that are natural and non-toxic and safe for the environment. As a result, my septic system never needs to be pumped out because it's able to function the way it was designed. Without the chemicals like bleach, ammonia and formaldehyde that kill the good bacteria, there is never any sludge buildup in the septic tank because the good bacteria from the feces is able to do its job and break down all the solids in the tank and allows the liquids to go out into the tile bed. The problem is that companies like Proctor & Gamble and Johnston & Johnston don't want the public to know that there are alternatives, because it would affect their bottom line. So they spend millions of dollars lobbying the governments to make sure they can continue to poison the public. Greed instead of need is the rule of the day in our world and seems to be at the root of all our problems nowadays, and our tax dollars are lining too many corporate pockets instead of being used to protect our beautiful Lake Simcoe and the natural environment of Ontario. I hope you will take my recommendations serious, because they could have a major impact on the health of Lake Simcoe in a very short time. They are very simple yet will be very effective if implemented now.

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