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(Letter to the Editor of The Citizen, published on February 8) Search for truth February 8, 2008 Re: Sweet vindication for crusading engineer, Feb. 5. Hats off to Ted Cooper. He selflessly committed himself to the greater public good in his fight against the ill-conceived plans to fill and develop the Carp River floodplain. It is greatly appreciated that Citizen reporter Patrick Dare and columnist Randall Denley brought Ted Cooper’s

On March 31, 2011 Part II Order requesters received the Minister’s reply.  All requests were denied but three conditions were imposed on the City: 1: The City and KWOG shall implement all commitments made in their letter of October 15, 2009: + Additional Stormwater Management (SWM) Runoff Volume Controls and Widening of Planned Restoration Corridor; + Municipal Planning Controls Regarding Floodplain Management; + SWM Model Validation and Contingency Plan; +

July 5, 2008 Erwin reported to the Coalition and the GA Board on June 25: I attended Planning and Environment Committee yesterday from 9:30 till past 4:00. The bulk of the time (from 11 to 4) was taken up by the matter of Terms of Reference (ToR) for the so-called Third Party Independent Review of the Carp River/Kanata West fiasco. Before the item came on, file manager Rob MacKay distributed

June 20, 2008 Staff’s report (including all of the comments received) and recommended Terms were posted to the City’s web site earlier this week: http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2008/06-24/ACS2008-PTE-ECO-0018.htm Also in the report is a letter from the Ministry of Environment which sets out the questions this independent review should cover. Having been received on June 13, staff said the letter had come in too late and they’ll come back with amendments if need be! Similarly,

June 9, 2008 Here are some of the comments that were sent to staff today for their consideration: – Especially remarkable is the input from Darlene Conway, water resources engineer at the City, who, on her own time, produced an excellent alternative Terms of Reference. She also has a cover note which highlights some of the main differences with the draft found on the City’s web site. (For Darlene’s witness

On 29 May, the draft Terms of Reference for a 3rd-party review of the studies supporting development in Kanata West (including building on the flood plain) became available on the City’s web site, at http://ottawa.ca/carpriver, along with a number of FAQs . Staff wants your comments by June 9 and the Terms will go to Planning Committee on June 24. You can e-mail your comments to staff to carpriver (at)

April 21, 2009 The long-awaited “Third Party Review” by Greenland International Consulting Ltd. was released on April 9, 2009. It is available on the City web site and consists of two large pdf files, 126 pages in all. Comments to staff were due by 9 a.m. on April 20. Here are some comments that were sent in. They are addressed to Carol Christensen, Manager – Environmental Sustainability at the City.

On January 18, 2010, as a private citizen, City of Ottawa water resources engineer Darlene Conway wrote to the Ontario Minister of the Environment and various MOE and other Provincial officials to document her concerns about the so-called “model of record” that is being employed in the ongoing infrastructure planning for development in and around Kanata West. That model is one outcome of the Third Party Review that was a response

There was a follow-up story by Patrick Dare in The Ottawa Citizen of February 8 [earlier web version no longer online; it had two informative sentences that were deleted in the print version]. It reports that Ted Cooper wrote to the Ministry of Natural Resources last fall, requesting an investigation into a possible conflict of interest involving a Ministry official who reviewed and advised on consulting engineering work done for

For years, Ted Cooper has put his job on the line trying to stop the City of Ottawa from permitting buildings on flood-prone land along the Carp River. Finally, the city listened. Patrick Dare in The Ottawa Citizen of Tuesday, February 05, 2008: The City of Ottawa is promising a full, independent investigation after it was discovered that the planning study for the proposed huge development of Kanata West didn’t