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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1988-03-16, Page 10PAGE 10. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 198«. Grey council angry over carcasses in dump Two roaming hounds take an interest in the charred carcass of a calf which was dumped at the Grey Township landfill site early this month. Grey Township council is angry over the dumping, which is not only a violation of landfill site regulations, but contrary to Ontario’s Dead Animal Disposal Act. The carcasses of a chunk hog and of several iambs were also dumped off. Ethel Compiled by Mrs. Margaret McMahon. Phone 887-9250 Tour of Australia in slides at Wl meeting When Dr. Carolyn Wybenga was finished telling about her travelogue of Australia a lot of ladies present at the Ethel Wo men’s Institute meeting were ready to pack their travelling bags. Dr. Wybenga also showed slides which helped to whet everyone’s appetitetovisitthe “land down under”. An enthusiastic question and answer session followed her talk. Dr. Wybenga was thanked by Barbara Grube on behalf of the ladies present. A discussion on pancake day which is being held at the Maple Keys Sugar Bush on Sunday, March 20 was held. Members were asked to notify the president about being able to help cook the pancakes and sausages being served from 10:30 to 3 p.m. Fruit bread and cheese were served by the convenor Jean Fraser and her helpers with a social time following. On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Allan Huisser held a bridal shower for her niece Sherri Hiusser. Sherri received many useful gifts from friends, relatives and neighbours. She thanked everyone for the shower gifts. Ethel Wl hosts euchre Jean Fraser and Barbara Grube hosted the Ethel Women’s Insti tute Euchre part on Monday evening with 15 tables of cards being played. The lucky folks were: high lady, Thelma Keffer; high man, Lloyd Smith; low lady, Ruth Martin; low man, Stan Hewitt; most lone hands, Dorothy Dilworth and Allan Stratford-Huron Presbyterial March 22 On Tuesday, March 22, the Annual meeting of the Stratford- Huron Presbyterial will be held in St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Stratford. Registration and coffee will be at 9:30 and sessions start at 10 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Theme of the meeting is “I was a stranger and you invited me in ’’. The guest speaker is Lorna Van Mossel, a Grey Township reeve Leona Armstrong and her council are angry, and they say they are going to start getting tough with people who do not abide by the regulations in using the township landfill site just east of Walton. They are especially angry over one of more incidents which took place during the first week in March, in which several livestock carcasses were dumped in the wodd and wood products trench at the site, where several of them were partially burned before being discovered by councillor Fred Uhler on Saturday, March 5. “We were so mad that day that we felt like just closing the gates permanently right then and there,’’ councillor Graeme Mac Donald told a press conference called by Mrs. Armstrong on March9. “Itcosts $40,000 a year to run this dump, and if people are going to abuse it, they’ll be finding out how they like trucking stuff 40 miles or so to a site chosen by the county.” The carcasses dumped were of several small lambs, a calf, and a half-grown chunk hog. Evidence indicated that the lambs and the calf may have been in plastic bags when they were dumped, and since the carcasses were at three different locations around the rim of the trench, itis possible that they were dumped at different times. All but the hog were partially burned. Council admits that there is little they can do about the incidents after the fact, but say they are going to have to find ways of policing the site more strictly, or they could risk the premature closing of the dump under the Ministry of the Environment’s tough new regulations. Grey Township is one of the few municipalities in Huron County still operating a fully-approved landfill site under MOE regula tions, a fact which was termed “a luxury” on a notice handed out to all site users about two years ago when the ministry began getting tough in enforcing regulations put in place to protect the environment a number of years earlier. Under ministry regulations, re- Kennedy; nearest birthday to March 17, Marjorie McCourt, Adrian Verstoep; lucky tallies, Ralph Keffer, Grace Stewart, Isabel Bremner and Anne Mac- Murchy, George Pearson, Ross Stephenson, Dorothy Hamilton, Anne Cooper, Dorothy Cox, and Jim Smith. The next euchre party will be held March 21 by the Ethel Hall Board. Citizenship Court Judge from Waterloo. This year’s Synodical project is “2nd Mile” to assist in Mission work in Guayana. Items or cheques to help in this project could be brought to the meeting. Those attending are reminded to bring a brown bag lunch and beverage will be provided. Ar rangements have been made for parking at the Canadian Legion parking lot. fuse must be segregated into domestic (general) garbage, which must be compacted and covered with soil as soon as possible after dumping; metal and tires, which are kept separate for future recycling; and wood and wood products, or “clean burnable’’ refuse, the only type of waste which can be legally burned at a landfill site. The disposal of animai carcasses is governed by the provincial Dead Animal Disposal Act, which states that an animal carcass must be disposed of in one of only two ways: by burying it under at least twofeetof earth, or by having it removed by a licensed collector. Corporal Greg King of the Wing ham Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police told The Citizen that although this Act was seldom invoked, contravention of the section dealing with disposal is punishable, upon a first convic tion, of up to $500 in fines, and up to $5,000 in fines or six months’ imprisonmentforeach subsequent conviction. Spokesmen for both Atwood Pet Food Supplies Ltd. at RR 2, Atwood, which handles dead stock removal in Grey Township, and for Huron Dead Stock at RR 4, Clinton, which services the townships of Morris, McKillop, Hullett, East and West Wawanosh, Goderich, Colborne and Ashfield, said that they could think of no reason why a farmer would dump dead livestock anywhere, since both companies pick up small carcasses (except for chickens) free of charge anywhere within their areas, usually within a few hours of getting a call. “We have our cards out all over our area - that’s all we can do, ” said Sue Anne Smith, the dispatcher for Huron Dead Stock. “I have no idea why someone wouldn’t call us in. ” The Grey Township landfill site is used by residents of McKillop Twp., as well as by some residents of Morris. Grey Twp. administers the site, but collects 45 per cent of the costs of operation from McKil lop, and 10 per cent from Morris, which has a second site serving the north end of the township. Reeve Armstrong makes it clear that council does not blame the two landfill site attendants, who are on duty during the entire time the Grey site is open, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays, for the recent incident. She agrees with council lor MacDonald, who said that it is impossiblefor two men to watch every item that is dumped at each ofthefour dumping sites, espe cially if refuse, such as the animal carcasses, come in plastic garbage bags. “Actually, we’re not supposed to even let plastic bags into the ‘clean burnable’ pit,” Mrs. Arm strong said. “But the only alterna tive is to have loose papers blowing all over the township. “Butwe may have toget a lot more heavy-handed than we’ve been in the past. We’ve been using the honour system, but if that’s not good enough for some people, we may have to go to the card system, so that all access (to the dump) is strictly controlled. “Of course, that (system) is going to cost the ratepayers more over the long run, ’ ’ she concluded. 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