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www.waterloochronicle.ca 2.0% ‘a +149 "189¢» 3.7°: ENTICES YOU TO STAY IN THE CITY. 2006 Elantra GL TEMPTS YOU TO ESCAPE IH. i0° Tucson GL FWD ‘189°¢»3.2"* 139%¢0: .0 Santa Fe GL FWD 2006 Accent GS Continued from page 1 the Wilmot Line will not be upgraded from a gravel road, and by strengthening the buffer between the development and the coun tryside line. CPWM members still skeptical But there are also scenic qualities of the area to be preserved, topographical features that add to the natâ€" ural habitat of the area, as well as habitats of flora and fauna unique to the area. There is also the approxiâ€" mately 187 mm of rain that is drained through the area which ends up in the local water supply in a process that can take up to 40 years. Consultants from PEIL Planning and Engineering Initiative Ltd. and Stantec Consulting did their best to allay some of those fears, detailing plans to protect the till cap, preserve the topography and build feaâ€" tures to protect and preâ€" serve the quantity and qualâ€" The Waterloo public library has received a $10,000 grant to develop family literacy kits for chilâ€" dren and families who are recent immigrants to Waterâ€" loo Region. The grant is being providâ€" ed to the library by the 6030 spl fole mtc re ANOEMCD steie Duat rort asbags Height anjestacle 3 16 hee DOAL encine AM £M CDMPA stere ity of water Douglas Stewart, a senior planner with PEIL, said there was a lot of "misinforâ€" mation about what the developers intended to do on the site," and they have added features to the subdiâ€" vision plan to ameliorate those environmental conâ€" cerns. Those features include minimal grading where posâ€" sible, a clay liner along the streets of the subdivision to capture the sait runoff from road deicing and transport it into the wasteâ€"water sysâ€" tem, and a third pipe in addition to the sewer and water lines that will take rain water collected from the development and return it to the recharge areas of the aquifer. The salt reducâ€" tion measure will keep the chloride level in the water well within provincial stanâ€" dards. he said. wWith the help of the hydrogeological expertise of Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation. The foundation provides funding to registered chariâ€" table organizations in the community. The funding will allow WPL to develop a series of family literacy kits to help parents and young children to learn English together. Stantec, Stewart figures this will return more than the 184 mm of rainwater that would have been lost to the development, and might even return more runoff to the groundwater system than nature provides. But Louisette Lanteigne, a member of CPWM, which set up its own display outâ€" side of Waterloo city council chambers where the open house was held, said the plan doesn‘t take into account individual houseâ€" holds possible contaminaâ€" tion of the system. "They really tried to make it look nice, but the fact is that any kind of reduction onto the imperyviâ€" ous surface area of the moraine will affect the amount of water getting into the pumping stations," said Lanteigne. "And if you introduce salt into this area, there are a whole lot more contaminants we have to clean out of the water before Each kit will include a variety of materials, such as pupâ€" pets, cassettes and compact discs, with a focus on dualâ€" language picture books. "Our community is becoming _ increasingly diverse," said Joan Taylor, manager of children‘s serâ€" vices at WPL. "Waterloo region is now the fifth largest we can drink it." Despite plans to limit some of the housing units to a single garage, Lanteigne said most homeowners wili have at least two cars which will leach oil and other contâ€" aminants into the area. Each house should have proper parking that limits onâ€"theâ€"street parking. she said. Maintaining the imperviâ€" ous surface of the area and not disturbing the till cap around the houses might be hard to do once the housing is up, said the concerned mother who lives in a neighâ€" bouring development. "There is no current law telling somebody that you can‘t add a stone patio in your backyard or cement a sidewalk beside your driveâ€" way," said Lanteigne. "Peoâ€" ple are going to do this; it‘s a given. Learn from my neighâ€" bourhood which was experâ€" iment number one in Columbia Forest." target community for new immigrants to Canada. Through the generosity of the community foundation, WPL will be able to support new immigrants in learning English when they settle in this area." The kits will be available for loan at the library by the end of the year.