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Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Exeter could get
Win am's trash
• By Craig Bradford
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER — The sweet
smell .of Wingham's
garbage may come to
Exeter.
" Last month Wingham
town council .distussed
that. possibility along
with ,county consul-
tants, engineers and
planners,
An application Ns an
. extension of the life of
Wingliam's •current
landfill, located/in East
Wawanosh. Townith.lp,
.has. been turned down'
by •the Ministry ofthe
Environment;
The certificate of
.apprOval for the
WinghtiM; landffliruns
..out at the of
.December • and
.Wingham's engineer,
ArtClark of Winghain's
Maitland
Services, recommended
.Wingham use up the
remaining space in its
dump for the next cou-
ple of years and negoti-
ate with Exeter to send
Wingham's garbage to
Exeter's dtunp.
Thays welcome news
to Exet4r officials since
new: tiistomers, for
Exeter's landfill are
exactly what is needed
to make the landfill
more economically
viable. On 'top of
Wingham, both Stephen
guid Usborne townships
have sent Exeter letters
expressing -their inter-
est in shipping their
waste to the Exeter site.
Exetees-Thighly suc-
cessful waste diversion
program -that includes
Blue Boxes and com-
posting, along with
decreasing commercial
business and height-
ened operational costs
have created a revenue
deficit at the landfill.
Exeter- chief adminis-
trative officer Rick
Hundey detailed the
landfill's dilemma in
February. In May,
Exeter council decided
to shuffle commercial
operators fees to try
and increase commer-
cial business at the
dUmp. .
in' an interview with
the Times -Advocate.
Hundey said Exeter was
identified by Huron
.County In .an ongoing
. colinty-wide waste
management plan as a
potential site for other
. Huron .municipalities to
send their waste when
their;• dumps become
.
..:Hundey has met with
cotintrengineering con-
' iimitant: Steve Janes,
county planner Gary
Davidson and Exeter
engineer, Steve Burns of
Goderlch's B.M. Ross
AssoOites to dlicuss
agreements 'between
Huron municipalities to
make it possible for
• waste -from outside
Exeter. to .be. shipped to
thedump.
He said other munici-
palities would pay for
their waste to be
• shipped to Exeter and
then pay. the Exeter
landfill a tipping fee.
• Hundey said' •the
Exeter landfill "definite-
ly" bas the space to
accept garbage from
other mtmicipalities. He
said lithe dump contin-
ued to accept waste
from Exeter alone, the
site would have caliaci-
ty to accept garbage for
a minimum of 50 years.
Hundey addednew
waste management
technologies may be
developed to change
how landfill sites -giro
operated and- . even
make certain, current
practices obsolete.
Hundey said Exeter
officials will discuss the
matter -mOte. with
Wingham Officials in
the 'future -and the
Exeter dump won't be
accepting garbage from
outside municipalities
for some time. •
with files from the
•Wingham Advance-
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ADVOCATE STAFF
ZURICH --- The - latest
snag. for the Municipality
Of Bluewater amalgama-
tion, committee is -what
to do with profits from
the •Bayfield Harbour
and Marina. •
At la Wednesday's
amalgamation- , meeting
in Zurich, the group of
five went through its lat-
est draft proposal for
amalgamation, to be-
come official on Jan. 1,
:2001. During discussion
..of the proposal, Bayfield
'Reeve Doug Grant said
- he disagrees .with a par-
agraph in the. document
stating "15 per cent , of
annual revenues 2gener.-
,ated by 'the, harbOor aOti
-marina shall , be -, jiaid
into a reserve • which
shall be used only for
works, • .1n2prevements
and. operations related
to the harbour and ma-
rina."
Grant, said all. profits
from the marina ' and
harbour should go back
to a reserve -fund in Bay-
field and all surplus
money used to promote with a speciOc answer on new ,Municipality. of
tourism in the village. how much the village Bluewater. The reserve
Grant said tourism is the spends on tourism an- is intended to cover the
only industry In Bayfield nually. » new municipality's tax
and, inless..-it is pro- "A lot," was all Grant arrears so.the municipal-
- tected, the vMage's high would say, adding that Ity does not have to bor-
assessment •. will de- he couldn't provide a row money before it col -
crease, harming the new dollar figure. lects taxes. It also
Municipa4ty Of. Blue- Zurich Reeve Dwayne protects the new mu -
water. • LaPorte questioned nicipality from any
emer-
Bayfleld Diane Grant's • insistence on gency cost i 'there may
Denomme agreed, saying protecting Bayfield's be. •
.Bayfield has 1O farming tourism, explaining to The committee de-
ar industry and needs its Grant that Highway 21 cided on a reserve of
tourism. will always. 40 through $400,000, which will be
"This is of major Bayfield and people will split up ainong;16)..live
. portance to us," Grant always have to-, drive municipalities
said; adding that 'Bap. through it. lowing way: flay Twp.
field has 'to protect its Grant'. countered that will pay 35.89 per cent;
.:marina now because af- unless .tourism.- .pro- Stanley Twp„ 28.64 per
.ter :amalgamation. it will tected, people won't stop cent; Bayfield,..15.55 ,per
...only have one vote on in Bayfield. cent Hensall, 11.38 per
Council because Ot its The matter was never cent and Zurich, 8.53
small population. resolved and, at Hay per cent. -* •
Hay. Township clerk- Township -Reeve 'Jim The committee -Wilt
treasurer Janisse .Zim- Love's suggeslion," .Bay- meet again on Aug. 20' at»
•merman agreed • with field will -Investigate the - Stanley TOwnShip
'Grant, but told him .ahe what » other amal- Complex at 7:30 p.m.
.hoped the new town gamating Municipalities, There, it wl.Il"'coMe to a
council will recognize such as Grand Bend and decision on- the -Bayfield
-the marina'sImportance, Southampton, are doing Marina issue and discuss
While .Grant was to protect tlieir.marinas, the committee's ' next
speaking -of how im- In other notes from steps in the anialgama-
.portant the Ocimet. igio.of last Wednesday's meet- tion process
tourism* to the viltage, 14, the cominittee de -
he couldn't provide cided to create a work-
sall Cour!. Steve Towle ing.jund reserve for the
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