I don't have a personal problem with these four individuals. I do have a major problem with the fact that Betty Konc from the Wainfleet Water and Sewer Committee was intentionally left off the list.

This woman has done the most research and put in more time and energy into this situation than anyone else in Wainfleet, The Niagara Region and beyond. She has attended information seminars all over the province on water solutions. She has talked to professionals in the field. She has surveyed and conducted her own studies as to whether the situation the Municipal and Regional government are trying to convince us exists, truly does exist.

She has dedicated over four years of her life to this cause. She is truly a representative in the highest sense of the lakeshore residents that are affected by this project.

So why was her application disregarded. Is she too much of a threat? Does she know too much? Is she over qualified?

This is discrimination in the highest degree. Why have this committee in the first place, it's obvious you have your minds already made up on a decision.

We, the residents, have said all along, you have your own agenda. TAXBASE. Sell Wainfleet to the highest bidder.

If you truly believed there was a major water problem in Wainfleet you would not allow building to continue during a Boil Water Advisory. Instead you are allowing developers to ravage the property on the Lakeshore. High intensity housing in an area that supposedly has such water problems. That makes perfect sense. NOT!

During a recent 72-hour water pressure test last week at the proposed Lakewood Properties site on Lakeshore Road, for which the Ministry of Environment issued the permit, the residents to the west of the property on both sides of Lakeshore Road lost over 12 feet of water out of their wells. This is dangerously low and took the water well below check valves causing our pumps to run without using water in the house. This test could have cost all of us our wells, our pumps could have blown as well as other components of our water systems.

No one would listen to our pleas to stop the test. Our municipal office, the MOE, Jagger Hims (the company monitoring the test). To say you all left us high and dry? You certainly did. You made our lives beyond stressful for those 72 hours as we waited for our wells to return. Sleepless nights listening to the warning bell go off in our well. The warning bell that the testers installed for "Our Protection." What a joke.

Who is responsible? Everyone involved replied, Not us!

My husband and I volunteered, at the request of the OMB, to have the monitor put in our well, for our protection. The complete disregard for our well and the wells around us, the garbage left behind by the workers, the perennial plants that were trampled over surrounding my well and the treatment by the testers during the hours as we helplessly watched our wells being sucked dry. You can live without gold, you need water to survive.

But if our wells went permanently dry - guess we would need your expensive water and sewer then wouldn't we? Or was that the point?

Lee Bott

Wainfleet Lakeshore