I don't know why anyone would bring such uninformed comment to this site. Since you do not own property or a business in Sauble Beach or Hepworth it smacks of outside influence.

It is kind of like Jaymore telling us Sauble folk in the Sun Times we are short sighted because we don't want the monster water and sewer system. I hear only 4 hands were raised at the school today in response to the question, "Who would support Water&Sewer no matter what the cost?" It is obviously too late for you to jump in now.

This year Henderson Paddon completed an addendum to the water and sewer environmental assessment to design and locate the Sauble Beach and Hepworth wastewater treatment plant. That is the only location that has ever been selected for a treatment plant, large or small. It has really been no secret since 2001. It could be built to the scale required. You should also know that alternatives were evaluated that could be suitable for a small communal waste treatment system. You should also know that work was focused on the large system not a small one. It would be a speculation to suggest a location for a small system at this time so in asking Gwen Gilbert for that information you look like you were prompted to be a troublemaking mouthpiece. But you are not needed.

We already have our own resident water and sewer mouthpiece who actually LIVES here at Sauble Beach.
http://bubbiebubinson.blogspot.com/

By the way the location selected is on the south side of the Sauble River just a little east of the D Line. If it was ever built residents would nose it out when the wind blows in the right direction.

The design dumps treated wastewater from lagoons directly into the Sauble River. In round numbers it is to be rated for about 12,000 cu metres/day and at the same time recorded late summer flow over the Sauble Falls can be well less than 1 cu metre/sec of water. That is 60,000 cu metres/day. It does not make any sense. There are already signs that the Sauble River is carrying too high a nutrient load and you can see algae growth along the beach shore if the conditions are right. Ninety percent of the organic and nutrient load on the beach comes from the Sauble River. The nutrient load carried in the river needs to be reduced not added to. Also if there ever was a beach closing from E. coli colony counts it would be the river you would blame. Beach drain counts are known and have been stable at background levels for decades. As well there is an inspection program coming which is aimed at groundwater protection.

The Chamber of Commerce types have never understood that spending $80 million would never make a significant impact on beach water quality. The whole pipeline thing was always motivated by the dream of higher profit for members of the business community.

There is a wastewater treatment plant in Tara on the Sauble and that will be the last one ever located directly on the Sauble River. The developers have found a gold mine there because of the excess capacity of that plant. The lessons will not be lost on us here at Sauble

Unfortunately for the business community they can only control about 500 votes. That is why you see two new candidates in Hepworth. It is all about the strategy of getting control of Council.

Thanks, Dodge, for the seasoned and serious, and timely response, and sharing some really good solid-reference data with the rest of us Peninsulars; this is the real reason I wanted to create this open community journal, to set records straight by telling our story, not some revisionist abbreviation.

Thanks also for showing us how, on a community journal, there is no such thing as a bad question or a trouble trolling post, because no matter what it is, no matter what someone may innocently or maliciously assert, it can always serve as the springboard for informative and vital discussion.

One might, were one moved so to do so and of the mind it might do any good, compare this state of affairs to now two successive issues of a certain community print-bulletin which has twice run two-page 'fair and balanced' candidate Q&A transcripts, curiously omitting not one, but all candidates with development-contrarian views. Were it a blog, were it and its website part of an open and inclusive READ/WRITE Internet, I would wager there'd be at least a few comments tagged on that post! :)

There were more than one at the Sauble
School last Saturday. It seems to me that some
of the Sauble residents need to attend a few
of the Council Meetings and "Cow" meetings
every other week to learn just HOW skewed is the
reasoning of not only the Mayor, but John Close
Mark WunderLICK,AND others when it comes to
financial stewardship of our money. Thank God
for both Gwen Gilbert and Pat Varley for trying
to reason with the others, and fighing for
fiscal responsibility as well as a Code of Ethics

Uhm Gary aren't we East of the D line and South of the Sauble river???
And I think I had better step back, I realy don't want to disagree with anyone unless I think I am right , but I have been through the unfortunate process of talking to an "Anti" and felt there was some validity in a plan to get water and sewers here and found the term "loud minority" term was quite true in this case anyway. When I see the term "Mouthpiece" in describing people who disagree I think I will sit in this one out a relax and enjoy my machine here
So carry on and good luck in your cause