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LETTER: Quarry water use can potentially lower aquifer levels

Mandatory monitoring of aquifer levels should be made public, says letter writer
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The following letter was submitted in response to a previous letter entitled: LETTER: We should not take our clean water for granted

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Editor,

The water the quarries use to wash their gravel is normally treated in sediment ponds to remove the fine suspended material washed from the gravel and returned to the watershed it was taken from.

As I see it, the major issue of concern is the lowering of the water table impacting local wells withdrawing their water from the aquifer the quarry operator is lowering. 

Monitoring of the aquifer is required by the quarry operator and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forest reviews the monitoring reports annually so there are controls, and this information needs to be made available to the public.

George Powell
Blue Mountain Watershed Trust
Collingwood, ON