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FALL RIVER:<\/strong> The developer of the Carr Farm development, Vision 7 Developments, is responsible for any impacts caused from it, N.S. Environment and Climate Change said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At a Councillors Community meeting held earlier this week put on by Councillor Cathy Deagle Gammon at the Waverley Legion, a few concerned residents asked a question about the Sewage Treatment Plant and who is responsible should it fail and who is responsible if that failure leads to an impact on Lake Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While Deagle Gammon could not answer that herself since it is a provincial issue, she took the question and sent it to MLA Brian Wong for an answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Laker News also sent the same question, although split it up into three separate questions, to NSECC for a reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”72″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tracy Barron, communications with NSECC, sent the answers from the department on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first question was \u201cIf the system fails, will the province or developer be responsible for the health of Lake Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe receiving water study that was completed concluded that given the high-level of treatment, the proposed discharge will not have any measurable impact on Lake Thomas or drinking water,\u201d said Barron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The receiving water study can be found online, starting on page 93: <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another question was \u201cShould the STP (with treated effluent) approved by NSECC for the Carr Farm development on the Fall River Rd fail who will be responsible?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also asked: \u201cWho will compensate those residents who take their drinking water from the lake should the system fail?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barron answered those as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe approval holder is responsible for ensuring adherence to all environmental requirements, and they are also responsible to assess and remediate any impacts resulting from a treatment failure or non-compliance with their approval,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs a regulator, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change has a variety of possible enforcement actions it can take to address non-compliance issues, if warranted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barron said any reported or identified violations are investigated, and enforcement action can include issuing warnings, Summary Offence Tickets, or prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said for any questions about the proposed facility residents have, those should be directed to the approval holder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”95″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”150″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”169″] [adrotate banner=”95″] FALL RIVER: The developer of the Carr Farm development, Vision 7 Developments, is responsible for any impacts caused from it, N.S. Environment and Climate Change said. At a Councillors Community meeting held earlier this week put on by Councillor Cathy Deagle Gammon at the Waverley Legion, a few concerned residents asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[210,2,48,4084,4293,4294],"class_list":["post-31784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-carr-farm-development","tag-fall-river","tag-n-s","tag-nsecc","tag-responsibility","tag-sewage-treatment-plant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}