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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1992-05-27, Page 3$200.000 study. no results Six proposed sites for county Iandf 111 rejsdi By lirad•Orsees 9'-A staff QMH as though the Hoon °aunty Waste Manasment Master 'Plan, which has been in the works since No- vember, 1990, is going to have to be put on hold. The county has been gathering information since 1989 in an at- tempt to solve their .growing waste management -problem aid-hepeful- ly map out a method to have one county landfill site by the year 1997. -However, the six candidate sites for the new landfill have all been rejected. On May 12, the consultant firm of Gore and Storrie indicated all the sites were not suitable for a _landfill. Four of the sites were in Grey Township, one in Goderich Township and the sixth was locat- ed in Howick Township. "We • completed our field work and the consultants recommended they be rejected," said Master Plan co-ordinator Jo -Anne Richter. Originally there had been 41 can- didate landfill areas of 60 acres or larger. After several screening ac- tivities, the county had the six pro- posed sites. "whey are going to recheck the f41) sites. I •don't see any reason why we'll put any of them in: said Richter. . In keeping with the Ontario Min- istry of the Bnvtmnmeat, who paid for part of the Master Plan, the work program for the study was 'token down into four stases. • They wee Stage 1, Data Collec- tion; Stage 2A, 1dendfioa Inn of Potential And Mamm Stage 2B, Analysis of Alternatives and Stage 3A, Master Pian Poondadon which had not yet teen completed. The Master Plant cost the county more than $200,000 and examined ali forms of iag-die-soanty's garbage but was aimed mainly at finding a new site. "We haven't wasted any money because we've folios/6d all the steps," said Richter. In October 1991, the Master Plan released a document which listed the six sites. A month latera letter was received from the Western Foundry Company Limited indicat- ing they wished to use the new site when it became available. The required disposal capacity for the new landfill incorporating Western Foundry's waste after di- version was estimated to be larger TUBE W *In'litat aadl bis et the Ooderich site. 1n •lialutIty, -"-due liteetiitg Com- lailatralbaltaautlhatiate-frovn planningp On-site soil sampling was taken and speeielists at Oore and Storrie confirmed that all five remaining sites were largelyoomposed of.CLI class 1 to 4 farmland. This elimi- nated the sites because the soil is *WY' . On -aha trilling was also conduct- ed to determine hydrogeotogical criteria. There bad to be a thickness of a► least 15 metres of • unconsolidated materials overlying bedrock and the absence • of significant granular zones. The only site which passed the capacity test and the hydrogeology test was one of the sites in - Grey Township. However, it . was too highly organic. Richter said the rejections will set the county back from its , pre- detetmined year of 1997 to open the site. "It's going to add time to the pro- cess because we have to repeat parts of Stage 2," said Richter. Tittles 0.3v0oate, May 27, 1992 AfacMaughten Park was bustling with activities for children Sunday as Child Flnd hosted their Child Fair.. DurIrs6f the day, prizes were also awarded to colouring contest winners follotWrrg e contest spons+ered by the - organiz8tlon.-Dyer 900-entiantS tookepett: Here, wolurtteere =$bib Grant (left), and Julianne Varney (right), present prizes to the following winners In their respec- tive categories: Denise •Camochan (age 3-5), Tim Meldinger (age 6-7), and Barry Parsons((ge 8-10). Hay Township takes up 4.7 percent ZURICH - Hay Township coun- cil has presented its 1992 budget and ratepayers can expect about a 4.7 percent increase over last year's township taxes. The total budget is $1.02 million, but after grant revenues are sub- tracted, taxes will collect $455,370. Last year's increase was four per- cent, but included a substantial pro- ject to pave Goshen Road North. This year, explained clerk Janisse Zimmerman, the only major expen- diture council facesis the purchase of a new plow truck, expected to cost. about $90,000. Although a grant is expected to help with the purchase, the whole amount must be budgetted by council. Otherwise, Zimmerman attribut- ed the tax increase to rising costs on all fronts. "It's just general inflation from everything," she said. No more budget "scare tactics" says police chairman Continued from front page other town departments for doing a "great job" on keeping their respec- tive budget close to, or below the zero -percent mark. "We told them [police board] what we're giving them, so it's up to them to appeal it if they want," said •Fuller. However, Sharon Wurm, chair- man of the police services board, takes a different view. Warm says that the way she understands the process, the police will be spending according to the board's budget and it will.ibe,up to council to appeal it toShe province. "We will be wo king with the S565,000 budget, plus the $6,000 for the police services board," said Wurm. The chairman said she felt the budget was "fair for the job being done" and that the board had even "nickeled and dimed" to bring it down to the 14 percent proposal. Council's plan to slash $40,000 off the wages, $3,000 off the build- ing and property budget, another 53,500 off the clothing and dry- cleaning allowance, and $4,700 off the board's expenses itself, is not 'realistic said Wurm. Wurm said she hopes this ongo- ing battle over the cost of policing will be resolved this year, one way or the other. "If there's a better way of doing policing in this town...then let's look at it...no more scare tactics," she said. Councillor Ben Hoogenboom said he was still upset with the high raises the police board was offering the chief and secretary. He said they are "not realistic" in this eco- nomic conomic situation. He said he hoped some agreement could be reached with the board soon. "We're doing some negotiating there..I don't want to elaborate on it any more than that," said Hoo- genboom. The largest part of the town bud- get is the public works depamnent, which shows a drop in capital ex- penditures of 14 percent this year, mainly because the expensive sani- tary sewer installations in the southwest corner of town were completed last year. However, the town will be paying off $100,000 this year of the $300,000 it bor- rowed to complete the projects. Town council actually slashed their opaating budget by 5935 from last year's 574,935. Council- lor stipends will total $45,000 of that total, according to the budget. But the bottom line for taxpayers is - the increases they will see on their tax bills, increases due to higher county taxes, education lev- ies, and the reassessment shift. Under the new assessments, a house valued at $83,000 will pay $1,49056 in taxes this year, up 5178.17 from last year. !► larger home worth $163,000 on the 1988 market will be paying 5351.99 more this year, up to 52,927.24. The Exeter taxpayer's burden: how it slices up own of Exeter $1.28 million Exeter budget $3.2 million (grants and revenues Included) Huron County $569,445 Collected from Exeter taxpayers Total $3.6 million Exeter ... now you can bank by car and stay with your valuables. Now there's no need to park your car, unbuckle your kids, and walk to the bank, with our new Drive Thru Banking. You can simply drive up to a Personal Touch Banking' Machine, and get cash fast, from the comfort and security of your car. Royal Bank machines accept any card bearing the INTERAC*, VISA* or PLUS SYSTEM* symbol. 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