Weather for Oakville, ON Thurs Fri Sat Sun 29° 18° 27° 20° 24° 17° 24° 16° Parkinson SuperWalk Saturday Page 3 Oakville Transit route changes Page 4 www.insidehalton.com MECHANICAL SERVICES AUTO AUTO AU TOPR PRO PR O OA OAKV OAKV KVIL ILLE E 2 2 Wyecroft Road, Oakv 221 kvill ille e autoprooakville.mechanicnet.com 905-469-2442 2 dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Thursday, September 8, 2016 | 56 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Labour Day weekend fun Town council joins objections to Great Lakes water diversion by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff Josh Harrison, 5, dashes through the spray on Saturday morning (Sept. 3) at Coronation Park as local residents took advantage of the last long weekend of summer and before students headed back to school this week. | Nikki Wesley/Metroland Oakville Town council voted recently to add its voice to those objecting to water being diverted from the Great Lakes to the city of Waukesha, Wis. The council vote follows a June 21 decision in which a panel representing governors from eight Great Lakes states voted unanimously to allow Waukesha to draw roughly 30 million litres a day from Lake Michigan. The small Wisconsin city of around 72,000 people brought forward the proposal because its own groundwater wells are contaminated with radium. Town council and other Great Lakes stakeholders argue the decision is contrary to the 2005 Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, which ban new water diversions from the basin except in communities located in counties straddling the water division line between the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin and other basins. Waukesha argued it was one of these communities straddling that basin line, but see Halton on p.5 SAUNDERS, SAXTON & WINTER ~ A Legacy of Excellence ~ Wendy Saunders Kim Saxton Ruth Anne Winter Sales Representative Sales Representative Broker 136 Church Street, Suite 1A - Oakville, ON | 905.845.1223 sswteam.ca | sswteam @ johnstonanddaniel.com 4141 Derry Road - $2,299,000 3500 Lakeshore Rd W, West Suite 812 ~ $1,149,000