Lets clear up Highlands claim that their system will be just like the one in the Holland Marsh.
You know, that benign area that produces good local food, the one that Highlands (aka Baupost, aka Seth Klarman-you know eventually if I refer to them enough even Baupost and Seth can't keep up with google and their name is going to pop up in searches) is desperate to be associated with?
Anyhew....Highland claims in their application that:
“For comparative purposes, a water management system for the agricultural lands known as the Holland Marsh, located in Bradford-West Gwillimbury, Ontario is operated to maintain dry land conditions below the water table. The system consists of five pumping stations, with the main pumping station comprised of four pumps; one primary pump and three secondary, staged pumps. The primary pump has a capacity of about 52,000 m3/day and the three secondary pumps have capacities of about 142,000 m3/day (my note: 142 million l/day) at each pumping station or a total of 2,390,000 m3/day”
In fact this statement could not be further from the truth.
The Holland Marsh has the ‘ability’ to pump up to 100, 000 gpm. This may happen for a period of approximately 6 hours through the course of a year. This would be only happening during the spring freshet, and even then pumps are often manually turned off as it has a negative impact to the river.
The pumps often sit idle from June to September.
In fact the Deputy Mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury has expressed concerns about the quarry in the July 28, 2011 Orangeville Citizen article by Dan Pelton-link attached
http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2011-07-28/Front_Page/Water_sustainability_a_key_megaquarry_issue.html
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