Ontario's rural residents are getting wise to the risks in their community. Last month, residents of Hillsburgh, just outside of Guelph, successfully battled against a local businessmen's proposal to dump 600,000 litres of waste from his portable-toilet business on four hectares of his family farm. His property slopes downward into the residential homes, the headwaters of the Grand and Credit Rivers and the springs used by bottled-water manufacturer Aberfoyle Springs.
Aberfoyle Springs recently purchased the farm. President Bob Elliott said he bought the property to " protect" his business.
Not everybody can afford such protection. This week, Ms. Scheuneman watched a car park alongside a cornfield that had been sprayed with sewage sludge.
A 10-year-old boy got out and trounced through the cornfield.
"It occurred to me they must not be from around
here," she said. "They wouldn't know it's not safe."
TOMORROW
Mark MacKinnon visits a reserve where many are claiming that the drinking water is making them sick.
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