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Farmers present petition against CRRRC
project set up in their area. Ron Versteeg, a local dairy farmer, presented council April 2 with a 238- signature petition collected over a month-long period from farm families of all sorts throughout the township. The petition represents the municipality’s agricultural
sector’s opposition to a proposal by Ottawa- based Taggert-Miller to set up a commercial and industrial recycling plant on the site of a former quarry near Russell village. “The location is the highest elevation in the township,” Versteeg told council, adding that means that any leachate escaping from the proposed recycling plant
petition with comments to the Ministry of Environment about their concerns while the Taggart-Miller proposal is still at the pre-environmental assessment stage for the ministry. “More response from more people will have value with the Ministry of Environment,” said St. Pierre. Two agricultural petitions have been drawn up, one for owners of agricultural land in Russell Township and one for residents of Ontario, to protest rezoning and permanent loss of almost 400 acres of Class One farmland. Petitions can be signed at the Embrun Co-op feed mill and at Barry’s Home Hardware in Russell. Other potential impacts include groundwater contamination. Proponents plan to fill in a 32-acre quarry lake and groundwater recharge area to surround it with landfill cells, leachate pond and contaminated soil. With loss of good water to dairy, other livestock and specialty crops, many farms could not operate. In other rural Ontario locations where a leachate plume has contaminated groundwater neighbouring lands became part of an unpopulated contamination attenuation zone (CAZ). Other concerns include air pollution, negative impact on agri-tourism due to the dominating presence and odours of the landfill, and moving machinery with increased trucking on township roads.
G REGG C HAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
EMBRUN | The men and women who work the land in Russell Township do not want to see a proposed recycling plant
would flow downhill into the local water table through any faults in the old quarry site and create a risk of contamination to both neighbouring farms and those whose wells are linked to the underground aquifer. “Farming is a pretty important industry in this township,” Versteeg said. “A lot of businesses here depend in part or all on the farmers.” Mayor Jean-Paul St. Pierre expressed sympathy for the farm community and urged Versteeg and other farmers to follow up their
Written with Candice Vetter
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