The Sydenham river is a crucial waterway for many ecosystems and communities. The Sydenham river provides a home for a variety of animals, most of which are some of Ontario‘s rarest species. Like the Eastern fox snake, Pugnose Minnow, and the Eastern spiny softshell turtle.
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Why would anyone consider a dump this close to a town?
Why would anyone haul dirt that was supposedly "non-toxic" 2-4 hours away? Many construction projects require clean fill at any given time, why would it not be given away or sold?
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Doug Ford has decided to approve a landfill site near a public high school, raising serious concerns about health risks to the local community.
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The Sydenham River Poem
Call me the Lorax
I speak for the trees.
But who speaks for the river
Why not you or me?
They’re building a dump,
We know that's the plan.
But how will this contribution
Affect water and land?
Mussels, fish,
Snakes, birds and bees.
How will York’s dump
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I am vehemently opposed to the proposed dump (landfill) for many reasons. Farmland is irreplaceable, and in limited supply. If this landfill is approved no tomatoes, onions, sugar beets, wheat, oats, corn, potatoes, strawberries, raspberries, hay, etc. will ever again grow in this area.
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With the proposal of the new dump in Dresden, it won't only affect the community of Dresden, but it will also have an effect on the Sydenham River. The Sydenham River has many species and all of them are at risk already without the dump.
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York 1 will affect the Sydenham and surrounding area because the trash and pollution from the dump runs off, blows and leaches into Molly’s creek, and Long creek, causing species to suffocate and intoxicate the animals.
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The York 1 dump poses a significant threat to the sustainability of the Sydenham River ecosystem. The introduction of unwanted pollutants and toxins from the dump can contaminate the already leading river in phosphorus runoff., harming aquatic life and disrupting the food chain.
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I have two young children that go to school in Dresden. The traffic in Dresden during dismissal time is already crazy (both highschool and public school are dismissed at the same time). We cannot handle 700 trucks per day going through our town, ruining our roads.
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This proposal is not an expansion of a landfill because this Fly Ash Dump from 1980 was closed down 43 years ago.
Its last use was a bomb Disposal / Gun Range for Chatham Kent Police.
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I am a fifteen year old who lives 1.8 kilometres from where they are proposing to put a dump at 29831 Irish School Road, Dresden, ON. When I look out my living room and kitchen windows, that’s where the dump will be. I do not think it is a good idea for many reasons.
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I am against removing environmental assessment requirements for the York 1 waste disposal site project ERO #025-0389. This site is too close to homes, schools and farms. It could pollute nearby water and farmland. It could put wildlife and wetlands at risk.
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My very young nephews live just outside Dresden along with my brother and his wife, their property backs onto the Sydenham River. This proposed dump and the foregoing of the environmental assessment of such a project would impact them in such negative ways.
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ERO 025-0389
Please vote no on Bill 5
The exposure of asbestos to our community
That is less than a kilometre from our town
Toxic waste running into Sydenham river
Death of our endangered species
I oppose this proposal
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I was doing some research on your web site, and I don’t agree with what you are doing with this landfill.
It is not good for the environment, or the people around us with the carbon monoxide. Landfills stink, and are dangerous to the Elders, and the young kids in the small town of Dresden.
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To whom this may concern,
I am a small business owner in the town of Wheatley but grew up in the Dresden area.
My concern for this landfill would be the community.
We have heard it is to dispose of old building waste.
We all know what would be disposed of.
It is not safe for the community.
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By reading their infographic on the YORK1 website, at first, you think it’s a genius plan and that there are no cons to this. But if you read it a couple of times and figure out what they’re doing, then it’s not all sunshine and rainbows.
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The world is literally on fire, and our provincial response is to "loosen up" environmental requirements like this, is a gross oversight. This dump is incredibly close to town, and waterways, which makes the potential environmental impact overwhelmingly significant.
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After local residents demanded it, the proposed waste disposal facility by York 1 in Chatham-Kent was approved for an environmental assessment in 2024.
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