Dear Editor,
To anyone taking a quick tour of Quyon, it soon becomes evident that there is a wall of sand and stone running down a street just like the Great Wall of China.
It was feverishly erected at a great expense to protect the town of Quyon from impending rising flood waters from the Quyon and Ottawa Rivers.
What is to become of this great wall? Is it going to be moved tight to the banks of the Ottawa and Quyon Rivers to prevent future flooding or how are they going to dispose of this material?
To remove this without a plan to protect Quyon in future years is insanity. The dike/berm was built in 2017 and here we are again in 2019 building a bigger dike/berm and we are still in the same situation.
This year, as in 2017, there is going to be a parade of cottagers and residences that will not be rebuilding which is going to result in less municipal taxes coming to the municipality.
With a municipal council that does not appear to believe in adjusting budgets in hard times and an ever shrinking tax base, who is going to be filling in for the 2020 year shortfall of revenue?
Businesses cannot stand another 67 per cent tax increase.
Ask your councillor what they plan to do about it!
Melvin Maxsom
Pontiac, Que.
