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Environment minister says Chemical dangers exist at wells By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner Chemical Petro Waste CPW Disposal Ltd of Barrie has been asked by the ministry of environment to hire hydrogeological consultant to further study the possibility of chemical contamination of private wells near the com panys Snow Valley Road waste transfer station in Vespra Township This was announced to Vespra Township council Mon day night in the form of letter from provincial environment minister Harry Parrott In his letter Parrott said the posSIbility of contamination of private wells as result of chemical spill which occurred at the station in June 1978 was continuing concern to his ministry monitoring program being carried out by the ministry in dicates the contamination is migrating north through the water table Parrott said but the rate and the extent of the migration cannot be determin ed with data currently available As result the minister said CPW has been asked to hire hydrogeological consultant ac ceptable to the ministry to con duct further work to determine the rate of migration and the likelihood of contamination of private wells ACCURATE ESTIMATE This additional information will allow for more accurate estimate of the possibility of well contamination Parrott said He assured council in his let ter that he personally was ex tremely concerned about the problem and intend to take all steps necessary should the spill result in contamination of private wells Jim Stewart manager of CPW told The Examiner Mon day the company has not yet chosen consultant but is in the process of receiving quotations for the cost of the operation Stewart said company of ficials will meet with represen tatives of the ministry Thurs day to evaluate the situation and lay out the groundwork for the testing The consensus quite frank ly is that there is no problem but we want to know exactly where we stand he said The issue of possible private well contamination among homes near the site arose last July whenmesidents on Snow Valley Road were notified of the spill and its potential hazard in letter from Dr David Korn Simcoe County medical officer of health Residents were told that the spill of about 35000 gallons of waste had occurred when the plastic liner ruptured in lagoon used for storage They were also assured by Dr Korn however that tests conducted by ministry officials showed no signs of con taminaton at that time Ian Gray district officer with the ministrys industrial abate ment section central region Radio operator walkout has little effect here Canada will create an annoyance in the Bar rie area which could be awkward under ce tain conditions says Dori Fish manager of Barries airport on Anne Street help weather information and flightplanning services at 113 airports across the country walked off the job today Midland or Orillia where local airports are situated but no weather information for other centres was coming in this morning said Fish ONCE AN HOUR across the teletype for stations across North America Fish said here would probably have to phone number of By DENNIS LANTHIER Of The Examiner strike of airport radio operators across said Fish Airport operators who provide navigational The strike does not really effect Barrie Fish That information usually comes once an hour It means pilots wanting to fly anywhere from airports to get updated weather information The situation said Fish is not as bad in the Barrie area because it is relatively close to the American border weather information But pilots flying to more remote areas such as further north in Ontario would have more difficnlty getting flight information he said N0 LOCAL MEMBERS There are no members locally of the Union of Canadian Transport employees though said which provides good Air traffic into the area is not expected to decrease as result of the strike he said Those operators are asking for two year contract with 15 per cent wage increase Cur rent salaries range between $13328 and $15500 Supervisors receive $21600 The union is part of the Public Servrce Alliance of Canada Making their own plans Tim Jackson and Greg Jackson ii have their own idea of what the new Orillia campus of Georgian College should look like The two studying plans participated in ceremony laying the cornerstone of the campus building this Serve Examiner Photo By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Of The Examiner HONEY HARBOUR This year they wore plastic tags Next year rattlesnakes in Georgian Bay Islands national park may carry radio transmitters the parks chief warden said Monday Al Gibbs said radio transmitters would help park staff determine Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake populations in the park 80 km north of Barrie Although transmitters are expensive they are realistic possibility for the Parks Canada research program he said Gibbs said the surgicallyinserted devices would probably not be used for several years because of the expense Park staff must operate on the cheap until they gather enough information to merit expanding the program he said An environmental consultant hired by Parks Lanada said the transmitters are an important part of the research Hamid Parsons of BUFO Inc consulting firm hired to design rattlesnake study program said researchers are prepang cost estimates for using transmitters TRANSMITTERS COSTH Its definitely going to happen said Parsons Vie just dont know if it will be next year or three years from now Parks Canada list the Massasauga as an endangered species BUFO was hired to design program aimed at stu past weekend The theme of the day was Georgian Builds To Rattlesnake tagging gt Choir members rehe rsi gt said then that shortly after the spill the ministry had drilled in terceptor wells and he thought most of the waste had been pumped out MONITORING Gray said Monday the ministry has been monitoring test holes around the site once week and have been testing private wells on monthly basis since the residents were notified He said migration of the chemicals through the water table has not occurred as far as 700 feet from the site so there is still long way to go before it reaches private wells There is currently no im mediate danger of contamina tion Gray said but the poten tial is difficult to estimate which is why we have asked for hydrogeologist We feel we have taken it as far as we should and the com pany should take it from this it Dave Wittick conducts the Eastview Concert choir during an evening practice Monday The choir which does lot of pop music is practicing for commencement exercises on Nov l0 and also for the Annuai Christmas concerts to be held on Dec pomt Gray said He said however the and ministry will ensure alternate aminer Photos theoxaminor Toads Oct 16 1979 Eastview singing up storm as The Eastyiew Concert Choir and the Parents Association are sponsoring the singing group Up With People at the Central Collegiate Auditorium on Nov The chair was in vocal mood Monday night during rehearsalsEx water supplies are made available to the residents should contamination occur The township had identified connection of the residences to the municipal water supply as the feasible alternative said clerk Dennis Wilson at cost of about $160000 Whether CPW will have to foot the bill is still uncertain and Stewart told The Examiner such cost may be included in legal action the company has brought against the makers of the ruptured plastic liner The liner failure was not our problem he said and the company is not admitting liability French ready for hearing to resume By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner Lecole secondaire de la Huronie is scheduled to become permanent fixture Nov this year spokesman said today secretary will be hired by the end of this week and an advertisement for principal will appear during the next few days said Claudette Paquin media officer Raymond Desrochers co ordinator of the school told The Examiner that Toronto lawyer Pierre Genest has completed all he has to do and that an in junction hearing at the Supreme Court in Toronto will continue once date is set BREACHED RYLAW The Town of Penetangui shene maintains the operators of the school have breached bylaw that does not allow for in stitutional land use on the site of the school It is housed in the towns French activities centre converted post office building Friday at Lafontaine village about 10 km from the town students from among the 59 attending the school will perform and all proceeds will go to the maintenance of the school Paquin said Tuesday Oct 23 she said representatives of the school will attend rally at Queens Park Toronto protesting cut backs in many services by the government Willow Creek blasting effort encounters problem in Vespra Ongoing efforts to free Willow Creek from buildup of silt over the past 10 or 15 years have become temporarily bogg ed down Vespra Township council was told Monday Glenn Price resources manager of the Nottawasaaa Hou Car blaze confined Barrie irefi 7285483 Threeday canoe trip group of grade 11 students at Central Collegiate In stitute are leaving Thursday Algonquin Park as part of science They will return Sunday committee has been charged needed Many Georgian nursing grads work in Ontario partially completed survey of Georgian College graduates of the nursing program shows that 44 have found work 33 of them in Ontario Out of 100 registered nurses dying the snakes habits so Parks Canada can manage and protect the species This summer wardens tagged more than 50 rattlesnakes in the park Gibbs said that figure is double the number tag ged last year By marking snakes with colored plastic discs wardens can trace their movements in the park Each time snake is captured wardens map its point of capture and pomt of release Gibbs said the snakes may have greater range than he anticipated Three snakes were recaptured several kilometres from where they were earlier released MORE APTLRES NEEDED More captures are needed before conclusions may be drawn said Gibbs Parsons said he hopes in about two weeks to have an esimatc of the Massasauga population on Beausoleil Island The figure is based on tagging information fed into com uter Equipping rattlesnakes with transmitters will help wardens locate breeding areas and wintering dens he said These areas once determined can be protected from man Were trying to keep the snakes on the island and the peo pic on the island said Parsons But we want to keep the people away from the snakes downtown turned out by the school this year some 54 have been can vassed and 10 of those are not working Seven of the 44 found to be working have gone to the US while four have taken jobs in other provinces The survey also shows that the job situation for new nurses is better this year than it has been in past years TOO MANY GRADS In 1975 the provinces nurs ing schools were turning out more graduates then Ontarios hospitals could absorb That led during the following few years to many Canadian trained people going to the south of the border where there was nursing staff shortage However the need in Ontario is expanding the survey shows spokesman for Georgians placement office said the graduates not yet contacted will be during the next few weeks Real estate firm chosen Barrie eneral committee recommen edMonday the firm of Strachan Ltd be retain ed to give evidence as real estate appraisers for Barries improvement pro ject town EI country Electronics equipment stolen Electronic equipment and tools were reported stolen from ghton Rust Centre said city police today The theft is believed to have occurred Monday from the business at 168 John St in Barrie ghters responded to fire in car parked on Glenwood Drive Monday morning Fire was confined to the engine compartment of the car owned by Rodney Wolfe of 25 Oren Blvd Learning disabilities supper Association for children with Learning Disabilities is hav ing members get aquainted pot luck supper at the Municipal Bldg Owen St tonight at 700 pm Guest speakers Mr Charles Harvie from the board of education For further information phone 7269454 or Media relations examined The Simcoe County Board of Educations press and media relations committee will stage its first meeting November at the Education Centre Ferris Lane Barrie Established during the board meeting of October 10 the on media attendance at board committee meetings The Examiner requested that the media be allowed to be present at all committee meetings having been told on several occasions that they were closed Board policy and the provinces Education Act call for open committee meetings however and some trustees questioned whether the committee to study the matter was The committee is being chaired by Joe Whelan trustee representing Roman Catholics in the south end of the coun ty Elmvale area trustee Wendy MacKenzie and Orillia trustee Bill Brown will also sit with the committee Valley Conservation Authority told council in progress report on the project that contractors had encountered problems earlier this month in attempts to blast channel through the siltblocked section of the creek west of County Road 28 for threeday canoe trip at course in environmental with examining board policy DESTROYED HOMES fire started Sept 14 1812 by the Russians after the French occupation destroyed 30800 houses in Moscow Price said the blasting was intended to create an outlet 10 feet wide and five feet deep but while the first 1000 feet blasted satisfactorily the second 900 feet did not open up as well As result he said the resulting channel created in that section was only five feet wide and twoandahalf feet deep REDUCED LEVEL The result of the new outlet however has been to reduce the water level in the channel Price said and the townships engineers anticipate the area will soon be accessible to dredg ing machinery which can widen the channel as soon as it dries up sufficiently Price told The Examiner later that about 3500 feet of Willow Creek west of the county road needs to be cleared from silt and the project has been underway since August The silt problem which has been compounding over several years creates an annual flooding problem in the spring for farmers in the area he said as well as during heavy sum mer rains The constant infill of silt reduced the flow of the creek so much that farmers and the township were forced to build several drains to divert the GLENN PRICE since August flood water from farmland Price said The purpose of the project he said is to reestablish Willow Creek along its original path and take the burden off the manmade water courses and the municipal drains INSPECTION TRIP Price also told council an in spection trip along the creek to the Nottawasaga River reveal ed that beaver dams had been further complicating the pro blem of flow in the creek These had been successfully removed by hand he said but because the animals will start rebuilding almost immediate ly and because the flow of silt from the creeks source is im possible to stop maintenance should be carried out on the creek every three to five years If we treat these as maintenance problems we will be protecting the investment we have already made he told council The project which is two thirds funded by the ministry of natural resources and onethird by the township has cost about $11557 so far Rescue squad lnnisfil officials to meet soon By NANCY FIGUEROA Of The Examiner joint meeting will be held shortly between the lnnisfil police and fire departments and the Simcoe Rescue Squad The meeting an information session will enable all groups to see the equipment each group has said Chris Chap man squad spokesman The groups are anxious to be able to work together in emergencies to the best of their abilities and knowing the equipment each group has will aid them in doing so he said In August Fire Chief Doug Rose called for strong ground rules for the squads operation in the township Chapman said however that discussions between the departments have led to greater understanding of the way the squad operates Concern had been expressed that the squad was in the township when they were not reuired To avoid any misunderstandings the squad is now contacting the police and fire departments whenever the squad vehicle is in the township Sometimes the vehicle is in the township only because it is being manned an oncall squad member from lnnisfil From now on however the police and fire departments will be told whenever an In nisfil squad member has the vehicle on call Theyll know why were down there said Chapman Hines choice for authority Steve Hines will likely be Barries representative on the new South Simcoe and Barrie Housing Authority General committee recom mended the action at meeting Monday The duties of the new authori ty are to select tenants review tenants income approve the annual operating budget and be responsible for the local ad ministrative office Quite reward Bus and street patroilers at Portage View School received an award for their efforts Monday Here left to right bus patrollers Glenys Gushue Tracey Biorgan Donna Wicklum and Sandy Mills all grade students enjoy pizza supplied by school teachers as special treat Some 250 of the schools 500 students commute by bus Examiner Photo