The Coalition for the West Credit River is asking you to submit your comments directly to the Impact Assessment Registry to support the Coalition’s Designation Request and to express your feelings about the 7 million liters per day of sewage effluent from the Town of Erin’s Wastewater Treatment Plant Project being discharged into the West Credit River ecosystem. Your comments will demonstrate to the Impact Assessment Agency and Minister Wilkinson that the Coalition’s Designation Request has strong support from the public. 

To make it easy for you we have prepared the submission below with maximum flexibility.  The letter has some core text that can be sent out as is, or you can choose from some key issues you might want to copy and paste into your letter. You may also choose to express your own feelings about the Town of Erin’s wastewater management plans.  Take action now – the deadline for comments is 26 May 2021. 

Your letter will go directly to the Impact Assessment Agency, to Minister Wilkinson, Minister McKenna, Minister Jordan, to your local MP and MPP, and other key provincial Ministers and MPPs. 

Thank you for taking strong action to protect West Credit River Brook Trout, Redside Dace, and other sensitive species at risk!!

You can copy & paste some or all of these key issues into your letter, and/or customize it to your preference.

  • The Environmental Study Report failed to require effluent temperature limits and design objectives in spite of representatives from all three provincial regulatory agencies expressing the need.
  • Sewage effluent will create an oxygen depleted and toxic plume that will likely extend several hundred meters downstream into Brook Trout nursery habitat.
  • In fact, the Environmental Study Report reported that Brook Trout redds were extremely abundant in the study reach and the study area provides habitat for this critical life state.
  • Brook Trout habitat immediately downstream of the sewage discharge location will be made uninhabitable.
  • The scope of the ESR was narrow, with inadequate consideration of the expanded population growth and the toll it will take on the West Credit River’s aquatic ecosystem.