Sir: Thank you, Bruce Corcoran, for outlining Rotary Club of Chatham Sunrise’s Clean Water for Living project in the Sept. 8 Chatham Voice.
The Voice does a great job of highlighting local issues and projects and I commend you and your staff for this community support.
I need to correct one statement. The downspout feeding my rain barrel in summer is connected in the winter to the storm drain, not the sewer system. If I said “sewer” during our time together I was incorrect.
Storms with brief but heavy rainfall appear to be increasing. The sudden surge in water from these storms can exceed water treatment capacity causing sewage spills (or releases in the case in cities further upstream on the Thames).
In recent years, our municipality has made progress in separating storm and sewer systems; but this important task can be an expensive process. One of the points I have been making in the Clean Water for Living presentations is that we must support our councillors when they undertake water infrastructure projects.
In addition as home and business owners we should do our part by diverting rainwater from the sewer system.
Again, thank you for letting the residents of Chatham-Kent know about Rotary Sunrise’s Clean Water for Living project.
John Lawrence
Chatham
