***Mon, Oct 2, 2006 -  6:30pm - Presentation of the Final Draft of the WSMP to City Council [Posted 14-Sept-06]

On Monday, Oct 2 at 6:30pm, the Final Draft of the Water Supply Master Plan (the same one being presented to the Planning, Environment and Transportation Committee on Sept 25), will be presented to City Council for final approval.

If you wish to address council (five minute limit), you must register with Lois Giles, City Clerk. The deadline to register is Friday Sept 29. (Email: lois.giles@guelph.ca   Phone: 519-822-1260).

You can check for last minute changes prior to the meeting either on this site or by calling Lois Giles. You can also sign up for our email list to be notified of possible last minute changes.

***Mon, Sept 25, 2006, 9:30am - Presentation of the Final Draft of the WSMP to the PET Committee [Posted 14-Sept-06]
 
On Monday Sept 25th 930 am, the final draft of the Water Supply Master Plan (WSMP) will be presented to the Planning, Environment and Transportation (PET) Committee for their approval. Location: City Hall. If you can attend, either to observe or to give a brief (max five minutes) presentation of your opinions, this would greatly assist transparency.

To simply observe, there is no need to register.

If you wish to address the committee (five minute limit), you must register with Lois Giles, City Clerk. The deadline to register is Friday Sept 22. (Email: lois.giles@guelph.ca   Phone: 519-822-1260).

You can check for last minute changes prior to the meeting either on this site or by calling Lois Giles. You can also sign up for our email list to be notified of possible last minute changes.

*** Posted to Stop the Pipeline on 14-Sept-2006:

Stop the Pipeline's Response to the Environmental Services Report

Stop the pipeline has read the Environmental Services Report to the Planning, Environment and Transportation (PET) Committee on the Water Supply Master Plan - Short Term Implementation Plan.  [We found this report as the agenda to the Sept 25, 2006 meeting, on the city's PET Agendas and Minutes web page.]

The first paragraph states that the Water Supply Master Plan (WSMP), which is coming soon, be approved in principle, excluding a Lake Erie Pipeline. But we were taught in public school to read the details... and on page 5 under New Great Lakes Surface Water Supply, we see that the Lake Erie pipeline "may only be considered in the long-term under:

#1. some of the high demand scenarios (e.g. Places to Grow)
#2. or if the local groundwater options are limited....
#3. or if the local surface water options are limited..."

The WSMP includes the Lake Erie pipeline "as a security-of-supply option in the event that sufficient supplies are not available from existing or new local sources."

So, what it means to say is that the pipeline is still part of the plan and a big part of the plan for Guelph... but, perhaps, they do not want it to be part of the plan until November 14th... the day after the election (?)