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the HERALD Wednesday August 1991 Environment Legislation needed to protect groundwater By BARBARA ALL Involve Me and I II Understand in Ontario there is no cohesive integrated approach towards protecting improving or even maintaining the quality of our groundwater In a forceful article in a publication called Hazardous Materials Management Jim Bishop argues that legislation is needed now to protect ground water before it is degraded fur ther Canadians are surprisingly ig norant about this vital resource and because we cant see it there is no thought to protecting it from contamination To paraphrase my neighbor people have been peeing in the well and are prised that the water tastes bad Some residents dont even know that Halton Hills drinks well water Town wells have been con laminated in Elmira Newcastle New Brunswick and Ville Mer near Montreal In the later case after millions of dollars and several years of attempted clean up the water is not drinkable And in fact no contaminated aquifer can be returned to its original slate so protection is the key Bishop points out in his article that groundwater is the greatest source of clean fresh water on earth Relying on groundwater are 26 per cent of Canadians for domestic purposes 82 per cent of Canadas rural population and per cent of Canadas municipalities Since water is essential to all life and groundwater accounts for most of the worlds freshwater resources it is fair to say that protection of ground water quality is tantamount to preservation of life Surface water has more protec tion Section of the federal Fisheries Act prohibits the deposit of deleterious substances in water frequented by fish In the government review of Reclamation Systems proposal to bring garbage from all of Ontario to the Acton Quarry there are more concerns raised about the health of fish than the people in Halton Hills Groundwater contamination is a problem world wide In an cle from Whole Earth magazine they tell of groundwater being contaminated by salt Farmers in South Australia cleared native forests which raised the water table bringing salts to the face One of their slogans to raise public consciousness is IN VOLVE ME AND ILL UNDERS TAND I hope you will become involv ed to protect our valuable resource that we take for granted Take action to request the Ontario government legislate groundwater protection Fax phone see last Wednesday paper for numbers or write to Say I saw it in The Herald J Main Slreet South Downtown Georgetown 8731470 Community Service Bulletins Passive Reducing Salon CALIFORNIA COLOUR ANALYSIS BRING A FRIEND Buy 1 at Get 1 lor Price Prices Do Not Include GST ji More At dull 8734907 ir En Georgetown Simon CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT Phone 416877 Mam Street South Georgetown Ontario 0109 CANNING SUPPLIES AND ACCESSORIES AVAILABLE MASON JARS 1L GEORGETOWN LOCATION ONLY GEORGETOWN If profit or in a lion service club or charily or church group and like us to publish minium t service announce it of i mi 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