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The Huron Expositor • July 29, 2009 Page 7
Waste management agreement raises concerns
Dan Schwab •
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The Waste Management Inter-
municipal Agreement that would
have Central Huron, South Huron
and Huron East using the landfill
in Exeter is too short on details
and should not be endorsed at this
time, Huron East council decided
at its last meeting July 21.
Clerk -Administrator Jack
McLachlan and Deputy -Mayor
Bernie MacLellan met with Scott
Tousaw, director of Huron County
Planning and Development three
weeks ago and expressed some con-
cerns that Ow agreement needed to
be discued further before Huron
East would agree to sign.
Tousaw took the concerns back
to South Huron council, but they
weren't prepared to make any
changes to the agreement, MacLel-
lan said.
"We've been paying all the en-
gineering costs to have the land-
fill expanded and in the original
memorandum that was ysigned by
all the parties included South Hu-
ron, everything was supposed to be
ready to have us using it as of right
now," MacLellan said. "They still
don't have their paperwork done,
so they've certainly fallen short on
their part."
MacLellan said he was not com-
fortable signing an agreement if
Huron East was not given a final
price of how much it would be pay-
ing per tonne once the garbage be-
gan being shipped into the Exeter
site.
"Part of signing this document
is, that we couldn't ask for any of
our Money back if we decided not
to use the landfill," he added. "At
this point, I'm not willing to sign a
document that ties our hands that
anything we've spent towards en-
gineering costs for them, we can't
use."
The agreement has 65,000 tonnes
of available landfill space reserved
for each of the three municipali-
ties currently using the Mid -Hu-
ron Landfill, which is scheduled to
close in 2011.
It also states that if one munici-
pality decides not to participate,
then there would be more capac-
ity left for the oth'r two munici-
palities, to a maximum of 65,000
tonnes.
"If Goderich decides to pull out,
still the three parties paid all this
money and they're not willing to
set that entire tonnage aside for
the other two partied to use, which
to me, does not make good busi-
ness," MacLellan said. "If we pay
for all the engineering costs, we
should have use of that."
Coun. Joe Steffler called the
.
agreement "ambiguous at best."
"We're signing our life away with
this," he said.
MacLellan said he didn't suggest
Huron East drop put of agreement
talks completely, but that another
meeting is scheduled for August
and that the municipality express
its concerns again at that time.
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