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The Walker Landfill proposal is garnering some attention outside of Oxford County's borders.
London-Fanshawe NDP MP Irene Mathyssen is raising concern with the Walker landfill proposal in Beachville.
Mathyssen says the potential for contamination is "extremely significant", in placing a landfill on fractured bedrock in the Beachville Quarry. "I don't think that we understand how vitally important groundwater is, how vulnerable it is to things like leachate. If this (proposed site) is indeed fractured bedrock, and that seems to be the general consensus, then there is a danger. There is a danger to the river and to the communities that are down river from that site."
Mathyssen says there are numerous communities, large and small built along the Thames River, including London and Chatham that could be impacted by contamination from upstream.
She tells Heart FM that she's written Environment Minister Jim Bradley, making this request. "I do hope to hear from him, and I hope he will ask for a "Karst" study. That was essentially the mechanism that people in Kirkland Lake used, they insisted on hydrogeological studies in regards to the Adam's Mine. Those studies revealed it was not a good site in terms of a dump that there would be terrible impact on groundwater in the area."
Mathyssen, along with MP Charlie Angus, will bring that Kirkland Lake experience to Beachville later this month.
They'll attend a Town Hall Meeting on October 19th at the Colombo Club from Noon - 4PM.

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