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Its summer time in Barrie The portion of Wellington Street West currently under reconstruction should be open to through traffic in about two weeks says Neil Fox city public works superintendent Fox also says work should be started on the new Lakeshore Drive extension about July 25 with the partiallycompleted road to be open to traffic within two weeks after work begins Wellington Street and Lakeshore Drive are two of this years four major road con struction or reconstruction pro jects in Barrie Others are reconstruction or reconstruc tion projects in Barrie Others are reconstruction of Essa Road from Bradford Street to Cumberland Street already underway and Bayfield Drive from Baldwin Lane to Little Avenue still on the drawing board Wellington Street West from the Medical Arts building to Donald Street has been closed to through traffic since last week but Fox said this week local traffic to apartment buildings and Barrie Plaza has been maintained He said installation of underground services and gravel base should be com pleted in two weeks allowing the road to be reopened with paving to be complete by mid August The project includes short stretch of Donald Street from Wellington to Anne and Fox said that stretch will probably be closed for few days next week The controversial extension of Lakeshore Drive from Bayfield Street to Mulcastcr lhe Essa Road reconstruction project looks like disaster site from this angle but city officials say they hope to keep the arterial route open to at least one lane Industry stays away from public hearing By SHEILA MCGOVERN Examiner Staff Reporter COLLINGWOOD The In ternational Joint Commission IJC held its public hearing on pollution in Lakes Huron and Superior here this week and was again without representa tion from industries Maxwell Cohen Canadian chairman of the sixvman CanadianAmerican commis sion said he was somewhat disappointed in the lack of representation by industry particularly since industry will bear the brunt of stricter en vironmental controls recom mended by the IJ Cohen former dean of law at McGill University said it is possible industry doesnt feel comfortable at public hearings on pollution because it is on the receiving end of criticism The Canadian chairman said he would like to hear industry debate the cost of environmen tal controls The Collingwood hearing was the fifth of six hearings scheduled on both sides of the border to discuss the Upper Lakes Reference Group report The final hearing was held in Saginaw Mich ESTABLISHED IN 1909 The OJC was established by the Canadian and govern ments in 1909 It includes three Canadian and three American members each with chair man Cohen chairs meetings in Canada and Henry Smith III former New York con gressman chairs meetings on the American side The commission did an earlier study of the lower lakes Ontario and Erie which resulted in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement in 1972 It then appointed the Upper Lakes Reference Group to study Lakes Huron and Superior Smith said the study has taken four years and cost the two governments $14 million Between 200 and 300 people were involved in preparing the report The reference group found Lakes Huron and Superior to be in good condition but there are many areas usually harbors where there is heavy pollu tion It also found the lakes are subject to an extremely high amount of atmospheric fallout much higher than the lower lakes because the upper lakes receive more rain THROUGH RAIN Dr Keith Rodgers chairman of the Canadian study group said as much as 40 per cent of meta contaminants and 20 per cent of the phosphorous con taminants enter the lakes through rain and snowfall The only instance of cross boundary pollution occurs as result of discharges by Algoma Steel at Sault Ste Marie The reference group found high levels of nutrients organics bacteria and metals at pointson both lakes Phosphorous enrichment in Lake Huron on the Canadian side was found at the GoderichMaitland river basin Penetang Bay Midland Bay and Collingwood Harbor Canadian areas on Lake Huron contributing to bacteria inputs were identified as Sault Ste Marie Blind River Spanish River guishene Goderich Metals found were nickel in the Serpent and Soanish rivers zinc cadium and lead at Coll ingwood zinc at Pene tanguishene zinc lead and mercury at Midland zinc at Parry Sound Harbor lead at Goderich Tobermory and Owen Sound at Nottawasaga Bay Owen Sound and IJC reaction cool to councillors idea COLLINGWOOI Staff Small Canadian communities should not face the same en vironmental restrictions as large cities according to Ray Mickevicus Wasaga Beach town councillor Mickevicus was one of five witnesses to appear before the International Joint Commission IJC here at public hearing on pollution in Lakes Iluron and Superior He urgued that environmen tal controls should be based on the amount of pollution emitted from an area and that across the board controls could limit the growth of Small towns like Wasaga Beach However his argument the liveliest of the afternoon did not sit well with either the Canadian or the American members of the IJC American Charles Ross countered that protecting the lakes is an individual not group responsibility and all regula tions must be applied equally Commissioner Keith Henry of Vancouver said both sides must make the same effort and that it is incorrect to assume it is cheaper for Detroit to clean its sewage than it is for town the size of Collingwood FARMER APPEARS Mary Graham farmer from Clarksburg north of Coll ingwood was the witnesstoappear Mrs Graham objected to the amount of blame placed on farmers for pollution She said farmers spray their crops and use pesticides but the need for the chemicals is increased because of improper use of lands surrounding farms Ed Murray of Collingwood representing the Great Lakes Tomorrow group stressed the importance of public education on pollution and presented an outline of course for children John Poste also of Coll ingwood expressed his concern over contamination in the Great Lakes and also stressed public education John Gorman Midland planner was the final witness Gorman said the Town of Midland is currently preparing its official plan for develop ment and he personally was concerned whether industry should be located along the waterfront Members of the commission indicated the types of pollution controls and industry has is more important than its loca tion However Henry indicated muncipalities such as Win couver that have allowed second development along waterfront are now trying to reclaim that land Penetan Iron and zinc from St Marys River by Sault Ste Marie is contaminating both sides of the lake Toxic organics such as PCBs DDT and aldrin were found and the study group recom mended the environmental and health effects of the compounds be fully examined before any new compounds are produced distributed or used The group was greatly con cerned by the discovery of asbestos fibres particularly in Lake Superior It recommends industry stop discharging elements containg asbestos which has been linked to cancer and that governments intensify their research There was some radioactive and thermal pollution of the lakes cited but neither were listed as serious by the group The group also recommends regulation against vessels discharging their wastes direct ly into the waters and review of the short and long term ef fects of dredging harbors Cohen said he expects the IJC have its final report four to five months after the hearings end He and Smith indicated governments have introduced about twothirds of the commis sions recommendations However Cohen admitted the recommendations are not always introduced as quickly as some people would like PM replies to Stevens OTTAWA Sinclair Stevens tPCYorkSimooe received little satisfaction in the House of Commons this week as he pressed Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau for action to alleviate unemploy ment Stevens noting that employment in the manufac turing industry is no higher now then when wage and price controls were imposed in 1975 asked the prime minister if those controls had in fact detrimental ef fect on job creation The prime minister told Stevens there was over capacity in many of the manufacturing sectors and that was probably the first reason why there was not great rush to increase invest ment We were hopeful that the last budget would create climate wherein the private sector would want to take up this tax room but thus far progress has been slight the prime minister said How slow is slow Stevens asked The prime minister said finance minister Donald Macdonald had made it repeatedly clear that the ef fects of the budget would be slow and recovery of the Canadian economy with respect to both unedmploy ment anf inflation would be slow NOT UNANIMOUS motion by Stevens call mg for job creation and lessening of unemployment by new budget containing income tax cuts for low and middle income earners and cut in federal sales tax was not debated since it did not receive unanimous consent for introduction of traffic throughout the work which is to be completed by Oct 15 Lndergrounrl work should be done by the end of next month Examiner Photo moon ORANGE Squi and road crews are at work Street will get underway when city crew can be spared from the Wellington jobprobably about July 25and gravel should be complete in week or week and half after that he said with surface treating ta lighterduty form of paving to be finished by midto late August portion of the new road at Bayfield will receive full fledged paving Fox said Essa Road the only project of the four to be contracted out has been under reconstruction by Bob Garner Construction Ltd since June 27 Peter Lee city design engineer says ex cavation is complete and underground services are being installed Undergroud work and gravel base should be com pleted in August Lee says with paving by midSeptember and full completion Oct 15 Kerry Columbus operations engineeer says traffic on the stretch will be slowed by con struction and reduced at times to one lane but the city hopes to avoid actually closing the stretch off One possible exception is the lowanCumberland block which may have to be closed for few days in about three weeks to avoid traffic hazard while underground services are in stalled If that happens Colum bus says traffic will be diverted to William Street Lee says two to three weeks of design work remain to be done on the Bayvicw project Fox says he will schedule the project after design is com pleted the examiner Saturday July 16 1971 Its only mud flat now but next month there should be gravel road connecting Bayfield Street to Muttaster Street along the Lakeshore Surface treatment of the roada lighter IllI form of pavingwill follow the end of the summer Examiner Photo LIMITED 425 WEST STREET ORILLIA SERVING SIMCOE COUNTY AND Hey Kids CAVALIER BEVERAGES 3256I7l the examiner 50 ymg horn and simcoe county 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