York Region: Stop Polluting Pickering and Ajax
Letters to the Editor
Mike Johnston, Managing Editor
Pickering Ajax News Advertiser
mjohnston@durhamregion.com
130 Commercial Avenue
Ajax, ON, L1S 2H5
Letters to the Editor
Joe Hall, Managing Editor
Toronto Star, One Yonge St., 5th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 1E6
Lettertoed@therstar.ca
York Region: Stop Polluting Pickering and Ajax
York's sewage is a serious threat to the people of Pickering and Ajax as it affects our drinking water, health and property values.
York Region pipes most of its raw sewage (300 to 400 million litres/day) to the Duffins Sewage Treatment Plant at Lake Ontario, near the
Pickering- Ajax border.
York's sewage pollutes Pickering and Ajax beaches and our drinking water source. The incineration of York's sewage sludge releases cancer
causing chemicals and Mercury into the air we breathe. York's sewage has even contributed to a Nuclear reactor shut-down by feeding excess algae
growth which clogged a cooling water intake.
In spite of these existing problems, York Region is seeking Ontario Ministry of Environment approval to twin its Big Sewer Pipe (SE
Collector) through Pickering to take additional sewage from the 500,000 people predicted to settle in York Region over the next 25 years.
York Region should use modern technology to treat its sewage within York Region. Our politicians should stop York Region from using our
community as a waste receptacle. Ontario's Minister of Environment should deny York's request to twin the SE Collector sewer through Pickering.
Mike Johnston, Managing Editor
Pickering Ajax News Advertiser
mjohnston@durhamregion.com
130 Commercial Avenue
Ajax, ON, L1S 2H5
Letters to the Editor
Joe Hall, Managing Editor
Toronto Star, One Yonge St., 5th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 1E6
Lettertoed@therstar.ca
York Region: Stop Polluting Pickering and Ajax
York's sewage is a serious threat to the people of Pickering and Ajax as it affects our drinking water, health and property values.
York Region pipes most of its raw sewage (300 to 400 million litres/day) to the Duffins Sewage Treatment Plant at Lake Ontario, near the
Pickering- Ajax border.
York's sewage pollutes Pickering and Ajax beaches and our drinking water source. The incineration of York's sewage sludge releases cancer
causing chemicals and Mercury into the air we breathe. York's sewage has even contributed to a Nuclear reactor shut-down by feeding excess algae
growth which clogged a cooling water intake.
In spite of these existing problems, York Region is seeking Ontario Ministry of Environment approval to twin its Big Sewer Pipe (SE
Collector) through Pickering to take additional sewage from the 500,000 people predicted to settle in York Region over the next 25 years.
York Region should use modern technology to treat its sewage within York Region. Our politicians should stop York Region from using our
community as a waste receptacle. Ontario's Minister of Environment should deny York's request to twin the SE Collector sewer through Pickering.