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March 22 » _ _William Duckworth, (Cons., Dov» ercourt), an old Grand Valley boy, was critical of the dam proposal, I pointing out that Waldemar was at least twenty miles from the marsh, He couldn't see how a dam at Wal-- demar could conserve water in the marsh, There was no idea of flooding the marsh, said Mr. Smith. The marsh, engineers reported, was one of the best--drained areas in the Province and it had been found after the snn nmemme. l omm '-:al';llwha:imbeen grug that the land * orthless, ree planti Measure Provides for $2,-- other conservation works, tggr:rnr: * * ural water retention barrier 000,000 Expenditure in was planned for the marsh, he sai;: Next Two Years New Commission. it iife ies eaierramags prgfir. tC}t;mpl:)ell explained that the ect has been under way in vary-- GETS SECOND READ|NG ing degrees since 1912. First direct action by the Government was Fed | ::?qntmt.ls& when the Henry Ad-- * L uf nistration appointed an Investi-- ederal, Provincial and Mu-- gatory Commission. The bill, he nicipal Governments to said, mereiy «Sarried out in large * & | sure the Commission's findings Dmde Cosfs |set up a new Commission to agd: }:nu;gster thehproject. gave it power o k 0 finance the works, make assess-- Enabling legislation for Ontario's 'ments against the municipalitiii. first large scale water conservation |make expropriation of lands and to and flood control project, centred g't',':::_i:'"':s a direfii?gt ibOdy in o s A | ers essential to its opera-- trnibm:rg?'wasmg'it-:naggc(;:\sd "r';g;t tion. Government contributions, he ing yesterday in the Legislature. fil;;:::lé:::uld be made in separate Hon. Coli belli, ist i A Public CWo?'k.?.ams':atleld Mtir'::t "n?: The Grand River Valley, he said, project called for the expenditure x&i\s"on; oi 06 most highly indus, of $2,000,000 within the space of alized areas in the' Prov_ince. and the next two fiscal years and em-- included manufacturing cities like phasized that there was urgency in Kitfihener, Galt and Brantford, as getting the plan under way. ;'e tas t;)mps like Fergus, Elora, The cost of the undertaking is to rést?n. t gns and Hespeler. be borne in a three--way split by 0005 maie dexgendltures of $7704 the Federal and Ontario Govern-- ir_equ"rcie V Bme °f. these ments, each bearing 37% per cent, munkmpa tlgsbfor. sewage disposal and an assessment on the interested io nmke s.'c:).u le sa\;1ed tllxrough the municipalities for the balance in -go__nser\_a l,o_n plan, he claimed. proportion to the benefits de-- rived. Major works, he stated, involved the erection of two dams, one at Waldemar on the upper Grand : River, west of Orangeville, and one at Hollen, on the Conestoga Kiver, a little hamlet about five miles southwest of Drayton, the nearest incorporated village. Need for Conservation. Mr. Campbell and J. A. Smith (Lib., Waterloo North) both empha-- sized that flood control, while an \essential part of the project, was considered secondary to the need & of conservation. The conservation feature, they emphasized, came under two divi-- sions, one to provide a means of isecuring a sufficient flow of water !to aerate and purify sewage during the dry seasons and the other to .oftset an increasingly acute short-- age of water in both surface and artesian wells. Mr. Smith, formerly Mayor of Kitchener, a city which depended largely on artesian wells for its domestic supply, declared that en-- gineers were of opinion that the y conservation of water in the upper tributaries, because of seepage through the rocks, would materially increase the deep water reserves In the entire area. He stated that the conservation ; of water in the Luther Marsh, some 'twelve miles above Grand Valley, which Saturday suffered one of the * worst floods in its history, was an integral part of the scheme. It was planned, he said, by means of dams, to feed the water down during drought periods and in sufficient ~ ¢f quantities to provide adequate sewage aeration. He claimed also that the need of conservation was even more important than that of | sewage disposal.