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4 Friday, October 12, 2018brooklintowncrier.com Works Department October 10, 2018 Public Notice The Regional Municipality of Durham (Durham Region) provides water treatment and the distribution of drinking water to residents using the municipal water supply. Population forecasts to the year 2031 indicate that significant growth will occur in the north Whitby and north Oshawa areas, which are within Durham Region's Zone 4 and Zone 5 water pressure districts. The Region has initiated a study to determine the preferred long-term solution for providing water storage and pumping facilities to service the Zone 4 and Zone 5 water pressure dis- tricts in Whitby and Oshawa to 2031 and beyond. The study will follow the Schedule 'B' Municipal Class Environ- mental Assessment (Class EA) process as set out by the Mu- nicipal Engineers' Association. There will be public consultations regarding the study and infor- mation on the consultations will be released as the study pro- gresses. For more information about this project, visit durham. ca/PublicWorksProjects. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact one of the following individuals listed below: Kelly Murphy, P.Eng., P.Ag., EP Eric Tuson, P.Eng. Regional Municipality of Durham CIMA+ Project Manager Partner/Senior Director - Water and Wastewater / Infrastructure 905-668-4113 ext. 3370 905-695-1005 ext. 6746 Kelly.Murphy@durham.ca Eric.Tuson@cima.ca Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Environmental Assessment Act, unless otherwise stat- ed in the submission, any personal information such as name, address, telephone number and property location included in a submission will become part of the public record files for this matter and may be released, if requested, to any person. If you require this information in an accessible format, please contact 1-800-372-1102 ext. 2233 www.facebook.com/RegionOfDurham www.twitter.com/RegionOfDurham The Regional Municipality of Durham Works Department 605 Rossland Rd. E., Whitby ON., L1N 6A3 Telephone: 905-668-7711 or 1-800-372-1102 durham.ca Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Zone 4 Water Storage and Pumping Facilities to service North Whitby and North Oshawa Notice of Study Commencement continued from page 2. ist movement beginning here. Road issues The issues affecting Brooklin aren't entirely our own. For instance, it seems that road safety concerns are endemic to the region. Nearly every municipal candidate has been dancing on that bandwagon, saying photo radar is the panacea for speeding through school zones. However, anecdotally anyway, there are other problems, trifles like stopping at stop signs and not knowing the meaning of yield or right of way. The region has dozens of intersections where turning left is virtually impossible. Which genius takes responsibility for creating left turn lanes with no advanced or follow-up green arrows, leaving drivers to fume in their lanes, completely helpless to make the turn? It should be a straightforward regional/municipal fix, yet no one has stepped up. As the Expo visitor Jack stated, most of the important roads are regional. The 407/412 misery begins up here while the traffic congestion and lack of alternatives have made Win- chester Rd., a regional responsibility, an impossible thoroughfare. Durham council has 29 members: the chair, eight mayors, and 20 councillors from the municipalities. Whitby's four ward councillors (north, east, west, centre) do not sit on regional council. Instead, there will be four councillors sitting with the region AND the Whitby council. All of which is to say that choosing the right candidate for both the north ward, Whitby's largest geographi- cally, and the region is vital. You could call it Brooklin being self-centered and perhaps there's some truth to it. But given that much of Whitby's main growth will be north, it's imperative our representation be intimately acquainted with the area. Odd voting system Now to the peculiar voting system. Here's the rub: Those four regional council seats from Whitby have ten candidates vying for them. In the school board trustee election, the Catholic board will elect two for three spots and the public board three from seven. The votes aren't ranked; they have equal weight. Each person to whom you give your X thus earns a vote. If you feel strongly about a particular candidate, when you choose others as well, you're immediately lessen- ing the impact of your vote. You'd be wiser to just choose one and stop, especially if you're unsure of the choices beyond your favoured candidate. Finally, when the victors wake up on the morning of Oct. 23, I hope they're willing and able to answer the fictional senator-elect Bill McKay like this: Time to get to it. A 13 year old's Hole in One! Brooklin's Colin Macken, who attends Blair Ridge Public School, accomplished on Sept. 30 (at 4:19 pm, to be precise) what most golf- ers never achieve in a lifetime: a hole-in-one. He managed the feat on the 102- yard 7th hole at Lakeridge Links using a gap wedge club. Colin, who was with friend Abigail Dove, has been playing golf for three years and gets on the course two or three times each week.