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Page THE HERALD Wednesday March 20 Sewage sludge research project Canadians and indeed the world community as a whole are becoming increasingly conscious of the need to both protect and preserve our environment To drastically understate the obvious its about time One of the main problems concerning environmentallycaring communities is what to do with sewage sludge Especially sewage sludge with high harmful metal contents News out of the University of Toronto suggests that a costcutting environmentally beneficial way has been found to dispose of sewage sludge University of Toronto Professor J Glynn Henry of the civil engineering department working with graduate student Lawrence Wong claims to have developed a process called Biometex which is reported to significantly reduce the harmful metals in sewage sludge while retaining the sludges fertilizer benefits Sewage sludge can be transformed into an excellent soil conditioner for use on agricultural land forests and parks Professor Henry is quoted assaying in the of T press release about the Biometex process In addition to plant nutrients untreated sewage sludge contains metals toxic organic compounds and pathogens which pose potential human health hazards The Biometex system which has successfully operated for four months according to the press release is a continuous biological metal extraction pro cedure To remove heavy metals from solid sludge the metals are made soluble through bacterial leaching It has successfully treated anaerobically free of air sludge highly contaminated with metals The system removed large quantities of copper nickel zinc and cadmium while nutrients such as nitrogen phosphorous and potassium remained un changed The of report noted that sludge handling and disposal currently accounts for more than per cent of the capital and operating costs of most treatment plants Professor Henry believes that landspreading facilitated through the Biometex process is an economical alternative that would even cost only 60 per cent as much as incineration which already has en vironmentalists up in arms Similarly landfilling as a sludge disposal method is prohibited due to the high metal- concentrations in The successful research of Professor Henry and Lawrence Wong was sponsored by Environment Canada through the Department of Supply and Service and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada More environmentallyoriented research projects such as this should be commissioned Perhaps then our poor dear old battered and abused planet just might make it through a few more decades A good belly laugh Dear Sir Because Mr C Richard wrote to your paper objecting to your Letter to Mike editorial I wanted to let you know I thoroughly enjoyed it as did a couple of people I repeated it to In fact we had a good old- fashioned belly laugh Laughter eases tensions relieves stress and anxiety A proven medical fact I In the preceeding weeks many of us have wept over editorials of killing and maiming of thousands of human beings worried about our national debt job losses etc angered by political squabbling and namecalling patronage abuse tossing of canes pomposi ty and ultimatums Laughing at ourselves and our politicians is healthy Many countries are denied this and are revolting for such freedom There are those who can afford to escape the worlds troubles for a short while but there are in creasingly more and more Cana dians who can do no more than just exist from day to day and a chuckle from such as your col umn does wonders and perhaps even saves on health care costs I would presume Mr Fagal considered George Bushs phrase Ass to also be in the washroom graffiti category and hope he would not discriminate in his objection to people speaking or writing to the masses and pen his displeasure to Washington DC Or perhaps in the words of the younger generation Mr Lighten up Sincerely Pearl Kerby Georgetown Editorial The Halton Hills HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills Established 1866 A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited Street Georgetown Ontario 3Z6 K ROBERT MALCOLMSON Publisher and General Manager 8772201 EorroRuiL- Ban Dummatt Uu ACCOUNTING BATES In Stem Hilton Foreign I U all month I Tha that not tiling out arrora in mount paid or actually by thai portion In In ucn mm it dua to In III aananla or and that no lot nan Inaartlon any dwtliiamnl In amount paid lor men Peoples Forum Town Council applauded Dear Sir In these times when our town Council seems to be criticized for many of the decisions they make we would like to commend them on the strong stand they took against the BainSmart townhouse project this develop ment proposal would have seen four placed on a lot currently occupied by a single family dwelling The Acton councillors in par ticular were very forceful in their arguments to protect this established neighbourhood and support the wishes of the many residents who opposed this major rezoning application Replying to the suggestion that the area was in transition Councillor called it a stable long term neighbourhood and said that an increased number of townhouses will change the character of the neighbourhood When the developer argued that it was his right to suggest changes to the Official Plan Councillor Elliott countered It is the right of the people to object to a change which will alter their neighbourhood forever and that People have a right to ob ject to unacceptable density Even though town staff and consultants recommended that the project could be done Council fulfilled its mandate by deciding whether or not it should be done Rick Bonnette summed it up well with This is what our zoning and Official Plan arefortoprotect As residents of Halton Hills members of are glad to see councillors upholding our bylaws and Official Plan and listening to what the people have to say As Norm Elliott said You have to listen to the neighbours Yours truly Gail Rutherford President The last word Editor note The following letter was released to the Hills Herald for publication I have decided to address this my last letter to you directly as Im getting rather tired of the third person communication we have been engaged in the last few weeks It seems that we agree on some things to do with womens libera tion pornography exploitation of women male accountability for violence against women to name only three but are not in agreement on abortion I have come down on the prochoice side which is also prolife in a very profound sense and you on the prolife side From our battle of wits in the newspaper much can be said on both sides too much probably I You name one of the causes of women being forced into becom ing babyfactories as womens liberation I get the distinct im pression that the hard line fundamentalists and other reac tionary elements in society would dearly like to legislate the womens movement out of ex istence It wont happen Guiseppl Those of us who seek freedom for ourselves and our sisters know that our liberation while not yet achieved is inevitable We know that the womens movement which is happening all over the world even in macho Islamic countries has the potential to br ing healing to our ecologically- distressed world now so ravaged by the males who want to exert power over it to control dominate and destroy it We know that power over is not go ing to last as one by one world wide women discover the power within themselves You cant stop it nor can I Its too deep too pervasive too convinc ing for any individual or group Of individuals to quench It arises from the depths of the collective human unconscious and through that to the Cosmos itself Thank you for providing my family and myself our dally dose of humour last Wednesday even ing We havent laughed so hard in a long time I refer of course to your advice that I should seek out a pastor to dialogue on the merits of Christianity You see I happen to be married to one Yours sincerely Joan Davison Georgetown 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