The official Ontario provincial growth plan stresses the need for development to take place where infrastructure already exists to support it - including water, sewage capacity, road infrastructure, public transportation, fire and police services, etc. The new Fraserville Mega-Development site has none of these and Peterborough, a few miles away, has surplus of both serviced and un-serviced industrial and residential land.
As cities grow, small areas of the surrounding rural townships are annexed and existing city services are expanded to service these areas. Cavan Monaghan council has rejected this notion.
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This is a reprint of a letter by Celia Hunter printed in a recentissue of The Millbrook Times. It is re-printed here with the author's permission. I am looking forward to receiving, as promised by Ms. Janet Amos, a list of all the questions that the Cavan Monaghan township office received following the Fraserville Water Supply Master Plan Review Public Open House on September 9, and reading all the answers so that I can better understand the township’s plan. However, I am finding that more questions are surfacing all the time.
ReplyDeleteOn Monday, September 21 at the regular Committee of the Whole meeting, Councillor Chaplin asked a question regarding the well on land purchased by the township on Moore Drive. The response from CAO Yvette Hurley indicated that the land has been purchased for the use of the Roads Department, but that the well had been studied by John Easton of Golder Associates and was deemed, I understood Reeve Cathcart to say, to have an insufficient flow to warrant a pump test and any further consideration. Then Mr. Cathcart commented further, saying that it was similar in capacity and flow to wells 2 to 10, which I believe he said had “not enough flow for anything”.
Now, I thought that the Fraserville Secondary Plan had been approved based on the results of testing on well10 which, I’m told, was reported to have excellent capacity and good quality water. What’s up? It appears that information regarding the well site that was originally to supply the southern portion of the study area with 1000m³ / day is hard to come by. Was there ever an intention to supply the Fraserville Secondary Plan with locally accessed water? If there was “not enough flow for anything”, how did the Fraserville Secondary Plan get approved?
So many questions. I, for one, look forward to answers.
Celia Hunter