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Residentsb lame, the lack Of s ewers Dramageproblýem's creaighah hazrd in Brooklin WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEIMBER 19, 1979, PAGE 3 E OWtlER OPERATE4 Bdlng your dlamagsd car Io MA.ACO and we'II do thé moet. Wm'II contact yourhnsurmnce agency or brohar. We'iI niake sure, mn adjuster sema your car. Wm'II do IIITf quellty work et à rsasnbls price end give you fait j, rvlce. 8» how ,flics your cartcan look - FIM UmSRACEESIMATES Peint »k m oie vllaet" ROYAL-~ 5' PREMIER $9~ SUPRÉME $-2W3' AIL PAINT WORK, GUARANTEEO 579-4000- Yxos.sI 710 WILSON RD.S.~ du. I OSHAWA, ONT. - ~WY4 SHOP HOURS Mon thru Fr1 8 arn. a p.rn. - Sat 10 . &.. 2Dp.m. By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff T'to Brooklin, residents belileve7 they have a case supporting the C.B.C. spon- sored Brooklin development project proposais regardlng the installation 0f'-sanitary and storm sewers ýin Whit- by's northern hanilet. Lynda Cormack. of, Way Road says that' the creek behind her home cannot give the àrea sufficient drainage' and Whenever thereý is a heavy rain or snow melt mun- »off the ground -becomes 80 wet that is saturated. "It'sterrible here in the spring af ter' the ta, Cormack"says adding that when. tý-heex~ess, waters corne they may be drawn in- to- the ,septic 'systems of so1m e h omes causingý flow backs and other related problems. "You're -almost gassed" Cornack, says because the 8ïmel isebad. The major problem, in Cormack's opinion, is there 18 nlo drainage behind her and hem neighbour's homes, The, pumps absorbýs the .storm. sewage and,,run-off *Commnack says and that only adds to the problenis of some 0f hem neighbours. "I don't see how they're goîng to put 'in a -sub- division," "behind Our property she says. "4Itps causing problemsail around, here," she says ad- ding that "«if Whitby doesn't push it (the installation of stomm and'sanitary'sewers) evemything Will go stale, people will just move away." 1ý "Every body, around heme is having the same problein,." Cormack believes she can put .hem finger on the problem. "IGmound water is-causing all the p'roblems," she says. 'The -ground. is just saturated." The problem, accomding to Cormack, is having an effect on the entire. hamilet, especially on the business *sector..' She says that the problem willinot allow business to ex- pand or to do simple things like inistail washrooms because i it will cause probleins with the drainage *and overload the septic beds many of which have been there for a number of Years.' "'A lot of the store -owners can't have washrooms in their place,". she says. "Business 'can't orne in, hav"e gt ntofin kn i wav's While Cormack says thatý the',problemf does flot reach her family home but that their property 'and tbir neighbours.is suffering, and the lonig-termn affects could be determental to the area. Cormack says that the health department.has been, in the area on regular i n- spections and whlle nobody has become ill because of, the problem. she, believes it may -only be a matter of tixne. "After the snow goes, there is -going to be a lot of» water left over," Côrmack says adcling' that'this is_ where the potential' hazard to health and property is. "Thinge get washed away 80 fast,"- she says adding that if1 there was "flot .wet- ness there would be no problem", and that she believes the. installation of> sewers would b the ideal solution.ý When the grounci is at'it's. worst, after a heavy -rain or run-off Cormack says ",it's just like land, floating on a bed of water." Cormack also indicated that the neighbourhood's mood is not good.- "Everybody .is ,getting rathe r annoyed about it," she said wondering Why it, has taken, the town so long to make a-,decision on the development of. Brooklin, especially the sewer 'in- stallation: "Ipeople have to make decisions, but over. that length* of tizne? Why does- it take solong?" -' Another -resident living in a different part of the village has voiced the same concer- ns as Cormack. Carolyn Gilbert of Torian Ave., a resident'0f 22 years says thateher neighbourhood 18 "in the middle of the problem." "It isn't that their systern 15 not working but the excess (surface water from heavy ramn or snow melt run-off) is making everything, wet," she says. Gilbert says it 15 getting to the po int where residents cannot use mffany of- the modemn-day convemiences such as automatic washers because the ground won't absorb it. "We won't over tax it," she says. The problem will arise, Gilbert says if the present septic tank/drainage systeni ever breaks down.. .".If it quits, its a. health hazard,", Gilbert says ad- ding- &h--theexcssLsor 1 r t~1~s 20 Simcoe St. S. Monday to Friday- 9:30 arnà. - 9 p.m. Saturday - 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.rn. ~1> i 723-713 lia [4/@cMarked PriceJ Ch, ROYAL Cha DOULTONI FIGURIlNES* 20%-Off, 0%~~ Marked Prîçe'( (ALSALES FINAL) ýl la > 1 lqýIqqmmlr