As I was not told my issue would be discussed at the council meeting and was not invited to attend the meeting to defend my case this is the letter that I sent. I requested that the Clerk give this letter to the council members at the meeting.
June 13, 2010
TO THE CLERK AND THE MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH PERTH
RE: JUNE 14, 2010 COUNCIL MEETING AND REQUEST FOR REFUND
I have read the report by Fran Hale with regards to my request for the return of the $3500.00 for connection to Municipal water. A few corrections need to be made and I submit the following.
1. The well has always been the property of the Municipality of North Perth and previously by Elma Township. It had been used for many years as a water supply for many homes and for firefighting. Many of these wells in Atwood were decommissioned and this one was left for the homes that were connected to it. The lid of the well was a road grader blade installed by a town employee. The Municipality of North Perth decommissioned this well when all the homes were connected to a new potable water supply offered by the Municipality.
2.The previous owners lawyer did not tell us the well was on someone elses property but informed us that it was owned by the Municipality of North Perth. A new well agreement could not be reached between the home owners and the Municipality. The former CAO never had any discussion with us on this issue, but the former clerk Kris Snell and Terry Seiler were involved in trying to find a solution to the problem and connecting to another well was offered by the Municipality. An offer was made to us to purchase the well for $1.00 which we refused. We were told they could not locate the documents from Elma Township. Whether the Municipality ignored the care and control of the well is irrelevant.
3.I have been requesting my money back for this well since 2006 and most recently in a letter to the Municipality dated Monday April 26, 2010 when council again took no action. The well was owned by the Municipality and when the water became contaminated it was their responsibilty to bring us a potable water source at their own expense not mine.
Sincerely
Sherrie McTaggart
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Just wondering who paid the plumber to make repairs on the well, when there was problems?
This comment is posted but does not appear on the site and I am not sure why. But to answer your question I am not sure who paid the plumber to make repairs. Each property on the well had their own relic pump that pulled water from the well. When my pump went I had to pay the plumber to fix it. The well had 4 homes on it and had for many years before me
Sherrie
Before we purchased the property so I was told Elma Township tested and had care and control of the well. North Perth even knowing at the time of my purchase in 2005 that there might be a question about ownership did nothing and did nothing for 5 years............
sherrie
I'm still trying to figure out what kind of a well. Most drilled wells, to the best of my knowledge, have a single submersible pump at the bottom which pumps water up for use at a sinle residence or building. When we lived in West Montrose we had a water source which also served four families. It was actually a "spring box" and was no more than four feet long by three feet wide and barely three feet deep. This was the joy of having a very high water table. Each house also had their own pump in their basement. Also you had mentioned that it became contaminated with bacteria. Generally deep drilled wells are much less likely than shallow wells to be so contaminated. The well known exception of course is Walkerton where the ground surface sloped towards the well and polluted water actually entered the casing of the well from the top. This was bad design from start to finish on that well. At this point I'm guessing your well, prior to decommissioning was a "dug" well (probably by backhoe). Also you mentioned it took a lot of stone dust to fill it up for decommissioniong. Drilled wells usually have no more than a six inch diameter , hence it wouldn't take that much stone dust to fill it whereas a "dug" well usually has concrete tile a minimum of four feet in diameter and dug wells can be anywhere from a few feet down to thirty or fourty feet deep. This would take a large volume of stone dust to fill it.
I think it was a dug well because it had been here for such along time and the lid was a road grader blade
Sherrie
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