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Vol. 118 No. 46 Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1984 40 pages Council can't decide if development OK Scugog Township council was unable to reach a decision on the fate of a 22 lot sub- division proposal for Gerrow"s Beach on Scugog Island. At a special meeting October 10, councillors tried no less than six different resolutions and all of them went down to defeat. With the council chambers packed with Gerrow's Beach pro- perty owners, several of whom had voiced strong opposition to the pro- posal, acting Mayor Lawrence Malcolm summed up the quandry when he said, "Obvious- ly we (council) are not prepared to deal with this item." After the six resolu- tions went down to defeat, council did manage to agree to table the item, but even the tabling motion carried by just a 3-2 margin, a further indic- ation of the differences in opinion councillors have on this application. The application, by Ambleside Develop- Three injured as van slams truck Three Durham Region Works Depart- ment employees were seriously injured when the truck they were riding in collided with a van at the intersection of Highway 12 and Regional Road 8, Wed- nesday afternoon. Whitby OPP report a blue GMC van owned by Daheim Nursing Home --- Py, Sad A collision between a Durham Region Works truck and a van owned by Daheim Nursing Home in Uxbridge sent four men fo hospital last Wednesday afternoon. Whitby of Uxbridge, driven by Manfred Hammer, 50, of Pefferlaw, was head- ed west through the intersection when it slammed into the side of the southbound Region- al truck. The truck, driven by Malcolm Armstrong, 43, of Sunderland, was on its way to pick up a load of sod at an outlet just A I = § i / ~ Co" fo -. south of the accident scene. Mr. Hammer, Mr. Armstrong and his pass- engers, David Hump- hrey, 43, and Ted John- ston, 63, (both of Sun- derland) were all taken by ambulance to Port Perry Community Memorial Hospital where, with the excep- (Turn to page 9) ey \ i : 4 ow ! i "ro Truck-van collision OPP say the accident, which occurred at the corner of Highway 12 and Regional Road 8, caused $23,000 worth of damage. See story for details. ments, calls for 22 lots along the east side of Gerrow's Beach Road. Council was faced with three options at the special meeting October 10; deny the application outright; deem it pre- mature at this time; or give approval in prin- ciple to all or part of the 22 lots. Approval in principle would have given the developers the green light to proceed with extensive soil, drainage and hydrology testing. If these tests indicated the proposal is viable, council still would have to give final approval to change the zoning from the present rural to shoreline residential. After a long discuss- ion October 10, which included comments and statements from sever- al ratepayers, Ward 2 councillor Jack Cottrell presented a resolution calling for approval in (Turn to page 3) / Beautiful buggies \J Two of the Sadler grandchildren (that's Leslie MacKenzie, 10, (left) and Jennifer Scott, 11, (right) with their friend Sarah Katchell) were happy to hop into the driver's seat of an antique Queen Phaeton buggy, worth some $3,000. The glamorous carriage was just one of the many rigs auctioned off at the Sadler fa rm last Saturday. Cat-tails have a taste for sewage An experiment using the common cat-tail to treat Port Perry sewage is proving successful, says a representative with the provincial Min- istry of the Environ- ment. Steve Black, a man- ager with the Ministry of the Environment Water Resources Branch, told the Star last week that the pro- ject at the Port Perry sewage cell lagoons north of the community will continue to be mon- itored intensely for the next year, but so far the results are encouraging. If the project works, it could mean increased residential, industrial and commercial devel- opment in Port Perry. Further development in this community has been somewhat re- stricted because of the capacity of the existing five cell lagoon system used to treat sewage. The project, which was undertaken by the Min- istry of the Environ- ment and Limnos Ltd, a Toronto based private consulting firm, began about a year ago, using two of the lagoon cells. One was used for pre- treatment of raw sew- age, and the other was turned into an artificial marsh in which cat-tails were planted in about four inches of water. The exprriment was put into operation this spring with the dis- charge of sewage into the artificial marsh. "It looks like it is working very well" said Mr. Black. He went on to say that the Port Perry project was undertaken to con- firm the design and operations on a full scale basis of a pilot project set up at Lis- towel, Ontario. If monitoring and test- ing over the next year or so confirm the initial successful results of the project, it could have long range implications for several reasons. Other communities and industries could adapt the artificial marsh system as an effective way to treat sewage, the treated sewage which is even- tually discharged into the Nonquon River is actually "cleaner" and of higher quality than the discharge from the present lagoon system: and since one cell turned into a marsh is doing the work of five existing cells, the amount of land area needed for a natural sewage treatment sys- tem can be greatly reduced. And for Port Perry, it could mean that more land can be developed for industry and housing on full municipal services. The present cell sys- tem has capacity for a population of about 7000 people. Present and committed development within the town have pushed that capacity to just about the maxi- mum. While Mr. Black did (Turn to page 3)