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Please recycle OYER r :m, UŒJ IN CASH TO BE CARVED UP EVERY THURSDAY Clarington calls for inquiry BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer CLARINGTON - The Municipality Municipality has called for an inquiry into why information on the dumping of paper mill waste and its potential impact on water has not been forthcoming from Ontario's Environment Ministry. But a ministry spokesman says information information gathered by the MOE has been released in a timely manner. Still, Clarington's request is good news for a concerned citizens' group, which says it just wants answers on whether dumping of the remains from the paper recycling process is affecting affecting water quality in the area of the Os- hawa Skeet and Gun Club. "It's been very difficult to get any answers, so very difficult to get any attention to this concern," says Deb Vice, co-chairman of Protect the Ridges, noting she's "extremely grateful" grateful" for Claringlon's support. "It's an immense relief personally and to our group that the responsibility responsibility for the health of our community has been shared," says Ms. Vice. The motion, brought forward by Clarington Councillor Jane Rowe, calls not only for a moratorium on the dumping of the paper sludge, but "demands "demands in the strongest terms a public inquiry into the Ministry of the Environment, Environment, specifically the York/Durham Ministry of Environment Environment Offices, and their lack of response response to this longstanding water safety issue." Answers on the matter are long past due, says Conn. Rowe. "The Ministry of Environment has been stalling on this for three years; we've been through four ministers," says the councillor, noting she feels it's the Ministry's job to provide the information. "They should be answering the questions, they should be reassuring the public," says Conn. Rowe. "Why, in an era where we had Walkerton, why are we not being well-served by the very same people whose job it is to reassure us we're safe?" According to numbers recently released released by GlobalTox International Consultants Inc., the company commissioned commissioned by the Province to do studies studies on vvliat effect, if any, the product was having on the water system, chemicals, found in water samples taken from a freshly dug well near the gun club far exceed provincial legal limits. However, Ministry spokesman John Steel says it is not believed the berms were responsible for the contamination contamination in groundwater monitoring wells, which arc not used to provide drinking water and were drilled only for monitoring purposes. No contamination contamination was found in samples of three drinking water wells sampled within four kilometres of the berms. 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