Alfred Loeffelmann's presentation to the Lamont County Municipal Planning Commission

My name is Alfred Loeffelmann, resident of Bruderheim for 42 years plus. 

If Hazco's Storage facility should become a reality, we in Bruderheim would be very concerned about health issues, the extra noise levels from the sulphur trains, possible derailments and accidents.  The last derailment our fire department was called to at the CN crossing on Highway 45 in town luckily was a rail car loaded with B.C. lumber that skidded down the tracks and surrounding area.  Imagine had it been a Hazco sulphur car and the sulphur had caught fire.

Hazco tells us the sulphur trucks will go down highway #15.  A lot of them will, but a lot of them will go from point A to B or as the crow flies right through the town of Bruderheim, past the school we just recently worked so diligently to keep from closing;  then down highway 45 to RR 202, which is not equipped to handle that kind of truck traffic and would be wrecked shortly.

A word to the Town of Lamont, your health care center, our health care center, the best for miles around; can you imagine a windy day from the NW, the sulphur smell hanging in the air?  Heaven help those poor patients with breathing problems, or for that matter anyone down-wind from Hazco's Storage facility.

In closing, members of the MPC on behalf of myself, my family and many, many residents of this County; I beg you, please do not allow Hazco's storage facility a foot through the door in the County, we will surely all regret it. 

Thank you.

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Posted April 15, 2006
2006 10 16 (reformated)