Electricity charges to rise

Pull out the Pocketbook:
In the Feb 27,2008  TFP issue- Editor’s Corner- Marie Williams-Gagnon writes “Families in rural comunities will see their Hyrdo One delivery charges jump as high as 35% over the next 4 years, depending where they live.”

“Pull out the pocket book.” This is an understatment. I am afraid that energy charges and increases are [...]

Off Road Biking in Skunks Misery

Fred Knight says….Frednuary 10, 2008 at 5:08 am Edit
I have found so much pleasure in Skunks Misery on all of my visits. The area is so peaceful and quiet and I love taking a nice relaxing ride through the area on my off road bike. I do not ride there because I want to destroy [...]

All-terrain vehicles: not-so-silent killers

Boys and their toys a deadly combination, doctor says
Katie Rook, National Post
Published: Tuesday July 22, 2008
A University of Alberta researcher is calling for a national injury-reduction strategy as the number of people being killed or injured on ever-popular all-terrain vehicles in the province soars.
The public now accepts as inevitable serious collisions involving young men on [...]

Leaking electricity costs money

Standby power, also called vampire power, phantom load, or leaking electricity, refers to the electric power consumed by electronic appliances while they are switched off or in a standby mode. A very common “electricity vampire” is a power adapter which has no power-off switch. While this consumption of power may be used to provide useful functions for appliances such as remote controls and digital clocks to the user, most [...]

Wardsville’s Napier-Reid Extended Aeration Treatment Plant

The effluent from the Wardsville sewage collection system flows to an Extended Aeration Treatment Plant. This plant is composed of the following major components:
 
Aeration Basin
The effluent enters a large concrete basin that has air diffusers at the bottom to continually supply air to the tank. Present in the tank are microorganisms that use the air [...]

How we operate the sewage system

Let’s save taxes by operating the sewage system responsibly.
 
Your clarifier Tank is an integral part of your communities sewage treatment system and should be treated accordingly. The following is a list of Do’s and Don’ts that apply to any sewage collection system treatment plant. The best practice is not to dispose of anything, with the [...]

Letter to LFP re: Thames River (part one)

Hello Paul
Kudos to you and Randy for having the balls to do a series of articles on the lowly Thames River, la Tranche  or Askunessippi,
 
My earliest memories of the Thames is dip netting for pickerel with my Dad in the early 60”s. It was a wonderful day with huge dip net set up and camp fire with hot dog [...]

Wardsville Sewer System

The Wardsville area has been serviced with a Small Bore Sewers™ (SBS™) sewage collection system. This system was chosen because of its cost effectiveness to replace the failed septic systems in the village. The collection system consists of four components on each property. 
 
 
1.       Household Outlet – 100mm (4inch) ABS pipe from face of the house to the [...]

Earth Day at Wardsville Golf Club a Success

Wardsville is looking to the future and it may be green.  Forty people attended Wardsville’s Earth Day event April 22nd to hear Union Gas, the Municipality of Southwest Middlesex, and Richard Ashburn, a green energy expert, explain the current infrastructure and how it might evolve.
Janneke Newitt of Southwest Middlesex explained Wardsville’s sewage collection system, chosen [...]

Living gently on earth is boring but necessary

The boring thing about reducing one’s footprint on the planet is that it requires behaviour change.  Like dieting and exercising, it takes willpower and discipline to turn off lights, grow a garden, cook food from scratch, cut down on air travel, and “flush responsibly”.
 
The learning event coming to Wardsville Golf Course on Earth Day will [...]