EARLY
WARNING to Middlesex Centre Residents!!!!
STOP any further development of a
potential zoning change and future gravel pit in the Bear creek/Hedley/Ilderton Road Area!!!
Gravel Grades
were taken Nov 2009 in this Agricultural (A1) zoned area.
March 2010 Update – Great News!
The large London aggregate company has passed on this
property – this was the company that had taken grades in Nov 2009!! The land owner is still trying to peddle this
land to any company who will stop by and listen to him.
A promise to ALL potential pit
operators
The Environment Protection Act
specifies all air, water, noise (ie
all pollutants) readings can be taken from a maximum distance of 30m
from a residence. 30 metres from a residence directly east (read prevailing
westerly wind) of the property in question…is on the property in question. All readings would be monitored on a
continual basis and every infraction will be logged and reported. All EPA limits will be enforced at all times. The ambient noise is very low.
PDF Document of the
region and where the grades and minimum set backs and issues (~160k)
What to
fear…
Why they
shouldn’t
·
Large
Resource of Gravel already available at Nairn/Ilderton Road www.prodrain.on.ca/lobo/
·
Very
difficult to operate aggregate operation within the specified EPA limits with
nearby residences
For
further information, questions, complaints, letters of support please contact:
·
Email
- info@nogravelpit.org
·
Visit www.gravelwatch.org
– great site for additional information
What to
do…
·
Call
your
MAYOR
Mr. Al Edmondson
14484 Eight Mile Road
RR 1
519 660-0559
Email: wa.edmondson@sympatico.ca
DEPUTY MAYOR
Mr. Albert Bannister
16016 Nine Mile Road
RR 3
519 461-1119 or Fax 519 461-1706
Councillor Ward 1
Mr. Ken Filson
13292 Ilderton Drive
519 666-2770
Email: k.filson@sympatico.ca
Councillor Ward 2
Mr. John Brennan
13082 Medway Road
RR 1
519 666-0549
Councillor Ward 3
Mr. Clare Bloomfield
12543 Ilderton Road RR 2
519 666-0978 or Fax 519 666-0261
Councillor Ward 4
Mr. Brian Ritchie
22862
519 657-2084
Councillor Ward 5
Mr. Frank Berze
28
519 652-1369
Email: fberze@rogers.com
These comments describe the background
information required and procedures to be followed to complain effectively and
prevent excess noise from being emitted by industrial sites such as gravel pits
and quarries. The same information and procedures are generally applicable if
excess noise is being produced by other industries. The comments below are
mainly concerned with excess noise being produced in rural areas, but similar
advice applies to urban situations. Every attempt has been made to ensure that
the information given and the procedures suggested are correct. Please inform
Gravel Watch Ontario if any of these comments need to be revised. To obtain
expert advice, contact a consultant or professional engineer specializing in
acoustics and, if necessary, an environmental lawyer.
To control noise, you need to complain.
The good news is that
if you have a genuine complaint about excessive noise from an aggregate
operation the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the Ministry of the
Environment (MOE) will apply the law and force the aggregate operator to reduce
the noise levels to the legal limit. Several members of Gravel Watch Ontario
have gone through the complaint process and the offending aggregate operators
did in fact reduce the noise to the legal limit.
To complain effectively you need to:
Step 1: Check out the noise. Know how to determine if the
noise from the aggregate operation is exceeding the Ontario Noise Guideline
limits and record the information required to make a complaint. For details see
Measuring and recording the information needed to make a
complaint.
Step 2: Who to complaint to. Identify
who needs to be contacted to officially register the complaint. For details see
Persons or groups to be included when registering a
complaint.
Step 3: How to complain. Write
and mail the letter of complaint to each person/group identified in Step 2. It
is important to realize that the process of making the aggregate operator keep
the noise to within the legal limits is complaint-driven.
Step 4: Follow up. Follow up
the letters of complaint by contacting the appropriate MNR/MOE officials at
regular intervals. See also the MNR/MOE protocol for handling
complaints.
Be prepared to repeat steps 1 to 4 on each occasion
that the noise exceeds the legal limit. If past experience suggests (or the
operator tells you) that the excess noise will continue for several days, make
daily measurements (several times a day if possible) and after accumulating a
number of violations send the next letter of complaint. The additional
complaints are actually a very important part of the process of ensuring that
the MNR/MOE takes your initial complaint seriously. Clearly, if the aggregate
operator doesn’t seem to care that you have complained to him and to the
MNR/MOE, and he continues to break the law it increases the likelihood that the
process will move more quickly. The above procedure may seem like a lot of
work, and it is. However, if you don’t make up your mind to be persistent until
you get results you will be plagued with unreasonable (and illegal) amounts of
noise for as long as the pit or quarry operates.