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PAGE 6, WHflBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1991 The only Whlitby Newspaper owned and operated byWhiffi residents forfWhitby resîdents! Published ýevery Wednesday by 677209 QntarioIý1nc. at 1 31'Brock St. N., WhÎItby, Ontarlo LI N 5S1 Phone 668-6111 Toronto LUne 427-1834 Doug Aniderson - Publisher Maunce PMwhr,- Editor Alexandra Martdn - Production -Manager 2nd Class. PostalRegistration0 #05351 »Final -decision stinks' To the Editor: This is an open letter ta the 'I press-and JQdy Garman I p articular (letter, -'Slck af the Whining,' Fr.. Press, July 17/91), cancerning. the Briargresn/ Kafuscinski caper. Ltheei ngldgsin hte" a, hortslespang aidslith" oar, presumably suifer the cansequences. 1 thlnk Ms Garman trad an this dag's tait. 1> Her- stary' bogins by stating she "cauldn't cars less abaut a parkette." This- would alsa have been an excellent place ta end. The plot Is a bit thin but at toast her thaughts would have been believable and understandabt*. Instead sho chas. ta ramble. an abaut an- astranamical price, wirdas, kids crying aver trees. (which happoned ta be hatding up makeshift farts), buggy treks (several hundred mtres at least), kids wanting ta ga ta the bathraom, nude- sunbathng hoaven tarbid), pétitions <wlie her frlonds .:actualty* 'slgnod bath appasing anes),- - Kuscin*i Guerittas (whatever- that means) and harrifyl n details -of Incidents accurring an Lckridge St. If ail this rambting Is samehaw tied ta a tapic she cauld nat care less abaut, then I shudderta thlnk at the fictian.lier pen cautd croate an a tapic she did cars abaut. Our elected afficiats knew, as any Ctler sans persan wauld know, that the initial furar wauld blaw aver, given timo, and everybady (I hope) wit1 b. happy ta see à decent parkette made'f or the* kids ta play in. Obviausly Ms Garman was not about ta lot this happen. Naw that 1 do have pen ta p aper, and this dog'stail still hurts, lmay as well make my camments an the whate fiasco. 1 think the final decision on a locatian stinks and 1 susp5ect mast people agroe. 1 think the surpris. arnd rapid about-face motion, t ram the Briargreen ta. Kapuscinski site (certainly not pre-planned) and the instantaneaus 'Il second that" by cauncil' s dynamic duo also stinks. 1 think t ht councitiar Drumm is ta be commended for having the guts ta *toIl it likehit se and that ho has been forced into an apology. Ho may have erred somewhere along the way in how ho did it but theoftacts romain the same. I think the pro-planning- for a rapid attack on the Kapuscinski area and the subsequent damage caused in a few days by the chainsaw sharpshooters mako Gen. Schwarzkapf's efforts look pale in comjparison. I think, in general, aur olected caunicil lias become pampaus and arragant but 181 when.*the need arises, superficialty sympathetic. This tends ta tati in ino with the Spicer repart. 1 think the "drawing of stràws pror taofficiai meetings (which doos not happen accarding to same atticials) shauld cesse unless the pro-mneetings (which do accur) are alsa made public. - 1 think that some facts are soewhat dstaërtedwhen it ca 1mes- resuit. 1 have some diff iculty betieving that.Kapuscinski parkotto wilI. cost less 'ta develop than a similar parkette at Briargreon - assumlng a sensible. location is selected, iLe. down by the aId willow tres. Did you know1 that, the Kapuscinskçi area was ctassed as unsuitable for a park becaus. it is a swamp, infested with treos and bugs and not cost-effective whon compared wth other locations? That Kapuscinski parkette wilt b. built "éorne hoît or high water" (incidontally, the'area has always had t he. high water)? That a 450 ft. fonce at Briarg roen at. $10 per foot woutd cast* $45,000 (sinco devaluod ta apprax. $43,000)? That the p5rosent staqe of development at Kapuscinski is not equal ta the existing raw stato of Briargreen? That. the parkette -complotian date is targetted for the end of July ..'91? That ïf theý initial furious pace of progressi ad been malntained the parkette may have been campleted, in 15' days..- 1 could go on but t think this dog noeds some sleep. Do you agree, Ms Gorman, or is ht too late ta close the can of wormns? lKelth Proctor Whitby Viw w - No ýdip, in,this la Bi Stephen G. Leahy Can we go swimming' in the lake'l on ans of the many hot, humid days this summer, my kids and,I wanderod down ta Part Whitby in the hope of t inding some cooling breezes traom Lake Ontario. Before wo got thero I had told them that swimming in the lake was imasible because ôf the pluin. When we got ta the east bach, theà wator laoked so cool and, inviting they aÉked again: "Please can we go swimming?", I told them what I'd read in the' paper. The east and west -beaches in Whitby and bath beaches at' Oshawas Lakeviow Park and mast others in Ajax, Pickering, Newcastle, Port Perry, Uxbridge FDENISE BOUSE held an open house to announce the expa-nsion of the shelter.,From left are Donna Babbs president of the board of directors and Sandra MéCormack executive director ýfor Denise House Sedna Women's Shelter and SuPPOrt Services Ime. Ifsmftho" ef4 * - ' ý l.e* *ýW "I- & && Mà -m m were considered* unsato by the Durham Heaith Department. Unsafe mearit the, level of human and animal excrement in the water was toa high. Swimming in there- could cause oye, sar, nase infections, and if! some of the wator was swalîowed, stomach, and* intestinal problems coutd result.' ' I also had ta tell them, there are many other chemnicats in the wader that aren't measured by the health department. And that: we don't know what proNoemsths chemnicats may caus. 1They lookçed.ý atý tho vastM expanso of cool blue, waters with horror and'dismay. 'How could this b.?" they askçed. "Who ruimed'our lake?w" "Who ii going ta dcean .hi up?", These questions were a ltfle h.arder ta answor. There is no new water. The water in Lake Ontario lias been in the earth's water cycle for billions of years. While there is a lot of watels than 1 per cent of th. earth's water is frosh and available for aur use. Thos. of us living close ta ane of tho waorld's groat lakes. are privileged ta have a virtualîy unlimited supply of tresh, water. However, wo, no longer havo a supply of unpotlutod water'. Our use of water tollows a simple cycle. We take the water tram Lake Ontario, chemically. purffy R, and pump it -into the. houses and industries of the region. We use, water in tremendous quantities. For. instance, 'we residents of Whhtby use well over a million litres a day. A factory sucli as Atlantic Packaging in- Whitby pumps out throe or tour millions of litres of 'used' wator a day. Most of this fouled water is pumped into a treatment plant and thon back into the lake. The, rest of the wator we use, along with ramn run-aif, goos directîy into-thellake. Regular residential sewage began ta be treated becaus. of typhoid foyer- and choIera epidomnice in the 1920s and 30s. There are still municipalities, Toronto among themf, where raw sewage f lows untroated into the More than 25 per cent of aIl treatment plants in Ontario cannot meet treatment. standards on a regular basis. R is acceptable for the run-off tram a thunderstorm or large industrial user ta overtoad treatment plants, sa tons .at thousands of litres.of raw sewage paurs directly Inta the- tek.. Our rather casual concemn about dleani water ls e tlected by the tact there are no treatment plants for more than ans third cf ail resîdents In. Ontario. A fair amaunt. of our tex rnoney ike, is spent to ensure- w. hav~ rlglitly çoncemfed aboutt-lhoquat$ o f a ur-:drinking w.. 'Id'pite the treatment * of. aur, w@sgr,th* pollutipn,.in tài: take é,gets wors; evoryi year6 Nooneýâ.~ a-bona taswim irithe lcdaI strs an- ponds -around ,hors -forieas.'1 tact, the". healh'-d epamet doesn't ievenbother- ,tô. tpst therp any mors.. When,-w"'"try fa- ean the water In auritreatmefintplantà thereare cancernshtb ahan§ > ather c*.hemicals used are ý'furh~ aging tà .ecooy cftii. làke., Ws use this wateèr ýfordrinklng, washing, ,watering aur, gardon, hosing down chemnical spilîs, id steel fabrication, "disposing cf solvents. There ,are*, nôa-laws" prohibiting dischargecfiusrI wasto into the sewers whon they. 'locate. hors. Thsy only negotiate with the reglon'for theOpqniunt c water they need at ratè&,fâi'below the cost ayf. pumping ain .treatlng. And aur tr"eaont plants. âii built primarily ,taproces resjdentiél effluent.« Only In h fe tast 10, y ears",is thi discliargo,'ofsme yps9 chemicats at-'high -conîýceqio been torbidden.. Monitoringand prosecutian is sa difticulft th r as only been a ns jail- sentence i 'n. Onaia for illegal dupng0 dangeraus chomnicaà Y Th~ sentence wilt b. àred0j weekends.. This -whote region. .,cq" hap1 tremendaus amounts cfdean uflpollutod ..wator.- W. arer, noW paig for neg iect1'p- thiý necessityr of f.. W.w~.inub to 'y 9tmpayforaàIgn emtoi repart -tra .m 1>regioat across Ontario stated - it will cost taxpayers $16 biliôfrver thé next 10 years ta ens~ ê' hav deéan, waer ta rrnk andi environ. mentally toun&rtthds o4 handling sewage. Our kids can't,>go swimfming là the lake, sîtreams or- ponds, we cant st. theý fish that are tetti and soven. out. of 10 species, cf sport tish in Lake Ontario* have- disappeared. W.ý are, rightly concerned -about- the 'drinking wator thatcames out ýof our. taps. We areý paying.the price for believing - that the soIutiorý ta the piles : of wastes we praduce te dilution.- We belîeved ý.that samehowthose vast- quantii would,,disappoar into the take andi we could",still, drink aiÀd'àsi !W On these hot' suinmeri 'days! sliouldn't- the ptoasurds'ot]livi igin: Whitby Include boing abeWtk your famniWV1àr -a cooltinirJ in the~ tae? Maybè i à tbfoourI chlldren's chilîdren. - ;, ~ - -- ------------.---- - Mme"