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A FINE DAY FOR A FESTIVAL IN WELLESLEY
The Village of Wellesley was teeming with visitors to the Apple Butter and Cheese Festival last Saturday. There was food, festivities and the finals of the Wellesley Idol competition, which saw Anastasia Bilodeau crowned this year’s winner. Top right, Idol competitors Christian Economides who finished third, Anastasia Bilodeau and Taylor Kelly who followed in second. [FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER]
Township welcomes move as region simplifies water treatment process in Maryhill Two systems can now be shared
FAISAL ALI A CHANGEOVER IN HOW Maryhill’s drinking water is handled should pay dividends to Woolwich in the form of improved efficiency, as two distinct well systems will have inoperability. The Region of Waterloo last week changed its treatment process of Maryhill’s drinking water, simplifying its methods of disinfecting the village’s potable water.
The move was welcomed by the township. “It’s a great initiative. It’s better for the residents. It’s better for the township. It’s just a great little project that the region’s decided to undertake,” said Jared Puppe, a project supervisor with the Woolwich engineering department. “We’ve been certainly asking them to do this for a number of years, so we’re quite happy that they’re doing it this year.” Currently, the town has
two drinking water systems. The Maryhill distribution system situated in the south of the town around Isley, and the Maryhill Heights distribution system in the north. The systems each draw water from two distinct wells and provide water separately to 180 and 147 people, respectively. The systems used two different methods to disinfect the drinking water, which prevented the two water supplies from being mixed with each other without the
potential for problems. Both systems use chlorine to disinfect the water they draw up, but the Isley system has the added precaution of adding ammonia sulfate to the water – a process called chloramination – to keep the quantity of chlorine particles up in the water supply. “We had metallic distribution system out in the Isley area, the metallic tends to eat up the chlorine quickWATER | 7