The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

t j mmms plaques local kinsmen celebrate md plan santa claus parade seepage 9 3 vvql 102 no 44 a metroland community newspaper wednesday november 1 1989 m images 50 cents petition demands swift lake cleanup tracy kibble staff reporter more than 330 musselmans lake and ballantrae residents signed their names to a petition instigated by lake musselman club asking the town of whitchurchstouffville to protect the lake club advisor ken jobe a long time lake resident said if there had have been more time the club would have had 600 names supporting its cause the petition asks town council to cooperate with the triparty study by the ministry of the en vironment the lake simcoe and region conservation authority and the york region board of health to establish a policy that would protect the natural en vironment of the community and eliminate pollution but mayor fran sainsbury said the expert triparty group headed by ron brooks from the ministry is addressing the con cerns and the town and the residents have to be patient until the final study results are documented before further ac- tion can be taken i realize this redtape process gets everybody down but the research document is not ready yet i am asking advocacy groups and concerned property owners to wait for the docu ment she said in a telephone in terview with thetribune these experts are taking the trouble at great expense to ad dress concerns and were doing everything we can at this point she said y the lake musselman club a group advocating the save our lake project has put together a series of documents outlining its concerns and has delivered the petition to local media and the town office the club has been dedicating its time and effort to one cause the preservation and protection from pollution of musselmans lake the club fears a communal water system will increase the problem of lake pollution and stated in a letter dated oct 25 to the mayor that the introduction of this water system is premature it is too costly and should not be installed until after a sewage system is constructed council stymied on wellcapping bylaw tracy kibble staff reporter an advocacy group against the towns communal water system proposal for the musselmans lake ballantrae areas said council cannot legally force residents to cap their own private wells the musselman lake en vironmental advisory corpora tion wrote a lengthy letter to council last week regarding the groups concerns including ex orbitant shared costs for hook up and the ministry of the en vironments mandatory hookup stipulation for funding legal council has advised us that no party can legally suggest or enforce mandatory capping of wells drilled or dug wells are private property and protected as such therefore such a pro posal should be removed as a consideration for individual jibokf4hejettef3tetefltrr i mayor fran sainsbury told the tribune the involvement of solicitors gives cause for the town to refer to its own solicitors to check out and verify legalities w capping of wells is a solution to prevent cross- contamination to the municipal water source from private systems that may already con taminated she said gordon ullman the corpora tions solicitor also stated that according to the municipal act a public vote is in order to fairly register community opinion and decision town council is waiting until the triparty expert team from the three government agencies has completed the summerlong water quality and quantity study results to be announced in a public meeting in early december and further deci- 5hniswilltirenbeatorete m i