Threatened by a rubbish dump illegal

Anne Caroline Desplanques

Saturday, 17 February, 2018 01:00

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An elderly couple fears for his life since he complained of a dumping ground of illegal carcasses of cars that encircles literally his residence in Sainte-Julie on the South Shore of Montreal.

“One time, we’re going to get off,” breath Réal Croteau, 76 years of age, his sad eyes riveted to a screen where it looks for the images of surveillance cameras he has installed all around his house to protect neighbours, ” he said.

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Réal Croteau

Resident

One of the cameras is pointed at the garage, the glass was shattered by a bullet.

Mr. Croteau is certain : the neighbors have pulled into his window, as they then pulled into one of his mini van that he ceases to denounce their cemetery of cars illegal.

The case dates to the summer of 2010. This year, he went to the Town of Sainte-Julie to claim that it does away with the pile of car wrecks and waste that surrounded his house.

Since then, he said, suffer the insults and repeated threats from its neighbors, three brothers.

The City of Sainte-Julie has never authorized the installation of a garage, or in any business of recycling of automotive parts in the agricultural sector.

Environmental disaster

However, a garbage dump is growing since the 1990s and prints its brand toxic in the environment.

“When I bought here in 1987, there were three or four cars hanging around. Now look at that, ” says Réal Croteau.

Dozens of carcasses, barrels, and tires lying around everywhere.

“It is an environmental disaster “, laments Marcel Perry, body, PurNat, which works for the elimination of dumps, and illegal in Canada.

Mr. Perry has found deposits of oil and gas to the surface of the creeks that meander around a bit.

“It is downright contaminated “, he says.

Connected recently to the aqueduct, Mr. Croteau and his wife fear they will have, for years, drank the contaminated water from their wells.

Before the courts

Entered the folder since now eight years old, the municipal authorities claim to be “as proactive as possible” to address the problem, says Mélanie Brisson, a spokesperson for the City of Sainte-Julie.

In 2015, the City condemned one of the residents, Sylvain Gemme, to pay a fine of $ 1000, but on the ground nothing has changed.

The City will apply shortly to the superior Court to get a judge to order the end of unlawful activity and the immediate cleanup of the premises.

The attempts of the Newspaper to get in touch with the neighbors remained without result. As to the repeated complaints of Mr. Croteau to the police in connection with the threats he is subjected to, they have not given rise to any charges.