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THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, MAY 23,2001 PAGE 3 High flyer A.J. GROEN/This Week photo PICKERING - Ryan Biggar of Courtice flies through the air after going over a jump during a BMX competition held in Pickering over the weekend. Tritium spill probed Darlington " radioa'ctiye ' clean-up continues BY JACQUIE MclNNES Staff Writer COURTICE - Drainage of a water treatment facility at the Darlington Darlington Generating Station continues continues after radioactive tritium was discovered within the system, Sunday, Sunday, May 13. ! The station is in the process of diverting water out of the treatment facility's holding tanks and lagoons after tritium was detected during routine testing of the water. The waste water treated in that system is not related to nuclear production activities, activities, said station spokesman Phil LeSauvage who added, "The cause (of the radioactivity) is still under investigation. We don't know where it came from." ; On Monday, May 14, there were 88 curies of radioactivity detected in the treatment facility and it was sealed off to prevent any more con taminated jWater ffyn entering .into, nibs lake;.,E|y,,week's, end,'at 'had'cfe^' •creased jo,'54 curies. "We are draining draining the lagooii through a temporary hose," Mr. LeSauvage said Friday, noting a more permanent drainage system would be set up this week. Once it is drained from the treatment treatment lagoon, it is then diverted through the station where the water is diluted and slowly released into the lake. "It is going to take quite some time," he said, noting it will be a "controlled release of water" into the lake to ensure the tritium release levels remain low. Readings taken from the water intake points for Oshawa and Bowmanville Bowmanville have not shown any radioactivity radioactivity beyond the normal background background levels, Mr. LeSauvage noted. While the station staff still does not know what the cause or point of origin for the contamination was, there is no further tritium entering the treatment facility. "Whatever dumped in it is over," Mr. LeSauvage said. Police arrest youth after hold up at Bowmanville gas bar BOWMANVILLE - A Courtice teen faces charges after a hold-up at a Bowmanville gas bar. Man injured in ATV accident CLARINGTON - A 22-year-old Bowmanville man is in hospital with serious injuries after an all-terrain vehicle vehicle flipped at Gibbs Road and Concession Concession 7 Sunday. Police say the man was driving a Yamaha ATV west of Gibbs Road, southbound on Concession 7, at about 7:40 p.m. when the ATV went out of control. The man was taken to Lakeridge Health Bowmanville. Police could not say what types of injuries the man suffered. Police say a young man with a nylon over his face entered the Sunoco on Waverley Road at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday, and demanded cash. The 15-year-old attendant told police a gun Was mentioned by the robber, but never produced. The robber was "disguised, but the attendant thought he knew the suspect," says Constable John Payne of the Durham Regional Police Police Clarington Community Office. Police arrested a 17-year-old Courtice boy Tuesday morning. The Courtice teen, who cannot be identified under the Young Offenders' Offenders' Act, is charged with robbery, robbery, breach of undertaking and use of a disguise to commit an indictable indictable offence. He appeared in court Tuesday morning for a bail hearing. Amalgamation between Clarington and Oshawa a recommended no go Two municipalities should remain separate: report BY JACQUIE MclNNES Staff Writer CLARINGTON - Clarington and Oshawa make better neighbours than honeymooners, suggests Mayor John Mutton following the release of a report report commissioned by the City of Oshawa. Oshawa. On the heels of a report by a Clarington Clarington consultant indicating the municipality municipality would not benefit from amalgamation with the motor city, Os- hawa's own consultant's report seems to be indicating the same thing, says Mayor Mutton. "Amalgamation is not an issue for Clarington and Oshawa," he says, noting noting the report indicates an amalgamation amalgamation would increase the cost of doing business for the municipal governments. governments. The mayor says wages and service service levels would rise to meet the highest level currently offered, according according to the report written by The Berkeley Consulting Group. Oshawa Mayor Nancy Diamond says she is not willing to rule out any option at this point because the report is still a draft until public meetings are held and the consultant takes the input received there into consideration. "I am not willing to give an opinion on Berkeley when the process is not yet completed," she says. Mayor Diamond does agree with Mayor Mutton amalgamation does tend to bring service levels, and therefore therefore costs, up to the current highest level within the amalgamated area. However, she says, "With two consenting consenting municipalities you look not only at cost but efficiencies and levels of service." The report looked at "six or seven options" says Mayor Diamond, adding, "You win a little on this one, lose a little on that one. I want us to look at the whole report and discuss it with the public. I don't think I would have done my job just to take one sentence sentence (from the report)." Mayor Mutton says although Clar- ington's position is stronger on its own than as part of an amalgamated municipality, municipality, "in the spirit of co-operation, co-operation, and to try to get the best service for the tax dollar we're going to ask Oshawa to sit down with the staff and council of the Municipality of Clarington Clarington to find areas that make sense in terms of service delivery. We work with them on transit, why not sit down and look at the rest?" Mayor Diamond says the bus service service provided to Courtice by Oshawa is a good example of successful service-sharing. service-sharing. "It's a seamless line. If it weren't called Townline, someone would be hard pressed to define the boundaries," she says. The Oshawa mayor says her council is looking forward forward to meeting its Clarington counterparts. counterparts. 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