Hydrogeologist Denhoed Sees No Scientific Merit In Sector-Specific Water Taking Moratorium
by Mike Robinson.
Harden Environmental Services’ senior hydrologist Stan Denhoed is offering a number of comments on behalf of Puslinch Township to the province in regards to the proposed Ontario Regulation “Taking Groundwater to Produce Bottled Water.”
In his report, Denhoed offered three main points:
– he supported the need for increased understanding of regional groundwater flow systems and therefore agreed with the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change initiative to study aquifer systems in Ontario on a regional or aquifer basin wide scale;
– at the same time, Denhoed argued there is no scientific merit in a sector-specific moratorium …
