Phase II Highway 5 extension to Wakefield

Perhaps two of the things I love most about living in Wakefield is our backyard access to Browns Lake and the Spring on Valley Drive. As a freshwater ecologist, I think it's most probable (but never proven?) that the Valle Verde aquifer (above) is fed by the Brown/Carmen Lake watershed and this is the source of Wakefield's spring on Valley drive. I would think that protecting this critical resource is a trump issue above even our local access to Brown's lake since many if not most of Wakefield residents rely on this spring for their potable water needs.  While I applaud the efforts that many have made, it may be too late for anyone to do anything to save this aquifer and the Valley Drive spring that Lorne Shouldice secured for us so many years ago. It seems to me that any credible environmental impact assessment should have included public consultation that no doubt would have payed special attention to the protection of wetlands and aquifer as a critical resource that local residents and community depend on. The price of so called progress keeps going up and up.