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Vol. 4, Issue 35
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
Study coming to see if
Petrolia’s water plant
can supply greenhouse
First Petrolia Scout members Gavin Brophy and Nathan Gubbels help stack an assortment of cast-o cellphones, computers, and other assorted electronics at the Scout’s E waste event Saturday. The E Waste collec on is a fundraiser for the Scouts who plan to go to summer camp in Quebec this summer. It was also a test run for the waste-for-pro t collec on as several other groups were watching to see if the troop could make money from the event.
Broad says the greenhouse operation will need between 2,600 and 5,200 gallons of water per day. Broad says Petrolia has a permit to take enough water from Lake Huron to supply the need however the question is whether the Bright’s Grove plant can process it.
A long ght won - Petrolia’s CEE future secured with funding from province
Heather Wright
gure the layout of CEEH to allow for a better environment for work- ing. That will include redesigning and expanding the emergency department.
reinvestment in Petrolia for nearly 40 years and Lapaine sees this grant as a sign the province “be- lieves in rural health care.”
we would work from inside the tent instead of screaming from outside the tent,” Orcutt told The Independent. She and task force member Mary Pat Gleeson regu- larly attended meetings of the Erie St. Clair LHIN to make sure they knew exactly what the planning body was doing. And they worked with Bluewater Health to try to improve a rocky relationship. Eventually, the town and the hos- pital group began working togeth- er, most recently on a project to create a health hub recognizing the needs of the aging population. It started with Charlotte’s Taskforce.
The Independent
Roseanne Orcutt is elated.
The Petrolia woman sat quietly as the head of Bluewater Health declared the future of Petrolia’s Charlotte Eleanor Engelhart Hospital is secure. “I think this is a wonderful sign for the future,” she says.
It was designed to see 7,000 pa- tients per year. Lapaine says now about 20,000 are served there.
He added the redevelopment of the rural hospital and the fact the town of Petrolia is working on a health hub concept for the com- munity could be a model for other rural communities in Ontario.
Mike Lapaine, the president and chief operating of cer of Blue- water Health, announced on April 26 the province has given $7.5 million for planning and the re- development of the rural hospital.
Lapaine says residents won’t notice changes right away. The hospital is working on a long-term plan for health care looking at the aging demographic in the area and then redesigning CEEH for those needs.
Orcutt was one of the original 10 members of Charlotte’s Task Force. It was a citizen group formed 10 years ago when there was a very real possibility the hospital would lose its emergency department.
Mike Lapaine, president CEO of Bluewater Health, announces an $7.5 million provincial
grant to con nue planning and redeveloping CEE Hospital.
Heather Wright Photo
Bluewater Health wants to recon-
He says it will take years to com- plete the project.
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Dawn-Euphemia is setting aside $5,000 for a study to see if Petrolia’s water plant can produce enough water for a planned $100 million greenhouse project.
Greenhill Produce from Thamesville bought 100 acres
of land in Edys Mills and plans to build over 40 acres of greenhouses in four stages. It chose the land because of easy access to natural gas and the availability of water.
And while a pipeline runs down Oil Heritage Road, right past the proposed operation, there is some question whether the local municipalities will be able to supply enough water for the greenhouses.
Mayor Al Broad told council Monday that he met with Petrolia Mayor John McCharles and the town’s CAO, Manny Baron, as well as Enniskillen Mayor Kevin Marriott on the issue. Petrolia owns the Bright’s Grove plant which supplies water to Enniskillen which resells the water to Dawn-Euphemia.
“The only way to get concrete numbers is to get a study done by Petrolia’s engineer,” says Broad. “We need to know how much water we can get at the end of the day.”
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