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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1973-01-18, Page 12Cc:ncern expressed over proposed dump in many area of recycled. Wait. Mana,gement exposed the Recycling is the answer to the of the gra city and problem according to Mr. Love. dapoeai whenthey talked He reminded the residents "that SOMO concerned residents in duringthe Har�'� last Wednesday. war a great deal of re - y. The cycling was carried out because italbeting was pranned by the, De- we needed the resources." rail Dumps Today committee to He is also worried about the r 'ePR, Metro Toronto and long term of Metro's contract. He of Environment officials claims that "the 15 -year term Inovi.de information about the would indicate the city is post- P� Minto Township land polling the decision to change the i, sits, system of garbage disposal for at Only one official from the least that long." Ministry of the Environment and 'Present garbage disposal the MPP for the riding appeared technology is locked in mediaeval art the meeting. Neither CP or times and we are now proposing Metro sent representatives. to move into the late eighteenth The DDT committee had a full century," according to Dr. Nor - panel of experts on hand and resi- man Pearson, professional plan - dents got a goodinsight into some ner and professor of political • of the problems that can be ex- science at the University of West- pected. ern Ontario. He predicts that the The problem of finding a land rail haul rnethodjs n picot project fill site for the city of Toronto is a of CP and if successful will be symptom dam "effluent society" used all ever the country. according to conservationist and He warned that once garbage is lawyer" Thomas Beckett. He en- land filled, those living in the couraged the people to try to stop area will see . the symptoms of a land fill anywhere in the province problem before they even know because. it is "part of a bad con- that one is developing. He told the servation story. Trying to just audience that the chemical have it moved out of the area changes in a land fill site are would be a waste of your time," "unpredictable and biologically he them., told d also sees expansionbaffling." He said land fill only of such postpones the day when recycling a land fill site as a very real prob- will regain valuable resources. lem. "You can bet your bottom He predicted that the garbage dollar others wit$ conte to use the will be minedein the future, re- site if you are good at, your busi- . cycled and reused. nese," he assured the farmers. He chastised the Canadian He repeatedly asked DDT to people for. not developing new persuade Toronto to find ways to technology of their own. "When reduce the amount of garbage we moved to this country we were produced and ending the use of pioneers," he geld. "New wc Land fill as a nuethou, of garbage must let other -nations prove that disposal..He. questioned the logic a new idea really works before in a wealthly country like Canada we will invest in it ourselves." not being able to afford. , return- • Member Grilled able packages when the poorer John Root, MPP for Welling - ones like Mexico can. He asked ton-Dufferin, was under criticism the committee to fight for recyc- during the question period. Bob lin•g; not just stopping the CPR in McEachern, a Palmerston Mto, , teacher, asked him whyt was Roy Hillis, health inspector forore i I the the Wellington-Dufferin=Guelph township to organizes top figpeoleht the ,r.Health . Unit,' told ;the audience proposal TALKING OVER GARBAGE -Heaps of imitation garbage set the stage for a speciai information meeting at the Minto- -,Clifford Central School last Wednesday. Speakers dealt with some of the problems inherent in the lend fi!l proposal in Minto. `I ownship. Member of People or Planes Committee in Pickering Township, C. Muirhead; meeting chairman, Some facts about land fill o Bet's• Mr. -Root replied that there was �`°` . lions.. Re foresees • id planning concepts • . Garfield Hughes; University of Western Ontario, Prof. N. Pearson; Pollution Probe worker, Peter Love; health !n- spaciur, Roy Hurls; Judge M. Genest and DDT committee member Peter Failis were some of the speakers at the meeting. Staff Photo. isturb some c.ounci.IIors a problem in no application in ' front of Chet �iatdixlg � ugn good fill in the mans late t -What try as as that morning. -terms governing mobile homes in township, to properly handle The He did disclose that CPR has Huron ' site and predicts that other good asked for a meetingCounty's proposed Official farmland will be stripped of its' with the . Plan was part.of the reason that t;ministry on January 26. "What the matter was referred back to �d.�int oilier, to keep. the gar, age coweoed. ithey will talk about I. do not the planning board for more 7,'h+8 overof the vliater table also know," Mr. Root said. study. As well, members of coon - Mr. Root emphasized that he ty councildid not approve turps Mtn. Hillis., He -reminded would•not,sit on a' hearingin his of the. thin farmers that it is close to the. terms,in the plan concerning -,and surface all ars tris =fie oz diet 414 ti*.n. tom, Wel, ?ngtotr� ' } > ,y� ci nd it Dtlfferl has .i ?hernobttcr; `r'i 'd' `. , surface in the s rill . fever, Pet tree • down P g '' and I've never let it down." redas:. m s point mss .are Health hazards 'are the'prime He said that he would supportconcerned, it was pointed out by concern of the health. unit and�Yts "The members of council that accord - his constituents. ministry of in to the plan mobile homes lo- in$peetofrs. Mr Hillis said, „.�Weg have little fa itis`.' th , Ability of the environment was set up to cated in urban areas in the coun- .ha Ministry e ty deal with these, problems. That's ty (there are about 52 of these in - ,the of the En. iromnent what *e' re such a site They can't re doing now. All.letters eluding some in rural municipali- police cthe ones int the count et go to the ministry. I will re= ties) must be• located in mobile . now.,, Y port on the meeting tonight. I home parks. In a strictly agricul- fte warned that Orangeville is know how you feel." aural area, ; of course, mobile present- , O . Councillor Mrs. Doug Leiper homes are y trying to get a- land fill asked if any of the members of is ofhe m providing home site in the�Township of West'the occupants of the mobile home site inax. "Thenship of made the Environmental Hearing are in agriculturally related There May how the Board of which Mr. Root is chair- fields. Y indicatepow- man and which will be holdin a Ors th+atwb_e are thinking{'' he pre- hearingon the proposalg � County Planning Director Gary dieted. � � if .CPR Davidson said that in his view it makes application, were from ' would be Municipal engineer and mem- , Toronto. She learned that theypossible to dispensed h' of the People or.Planes com- were not.l. ,with the section which demands mittee in Pickering Townsln - that mobile homes be on "muni- , P, Also present was Wesley cipal water and 'sewerage" but Clark " Muirhead, slammed the Williamson, actin second - Ontario go�iernment hard by ac- waste managementbranch of the ,r of the mat until more detailed cusing them of having actions Ministry of, the Environment. He ' try plans are ion prepared, - mobile Words that are .diametrically said he d t ing local situations, the mobile ed scan' know the sites CP home park provision is "required opposed. . He claimed that the _ authorities are claimed ' Rail has in mod but, "if the for general guidance". `insensitive o orate • development in rural areas, said McKinley, "We're going . need tax policy to compensate The concept ' of preserving agr• cultural land goes far beyon Huron County. Perhaps' it woul be a good thing if the provincial government was asked to us . some of our'ideas in this. 'McK ley'..added; that -s.m • HI opinion it was ""discriminatiii against. the rural municipalities -when .it was legislated that de- velopment could only occur in. the urban areas. He felt the -UDIRA study might have some answers, but he urged council to "take it to government." Mr: `7javidson said that • since the Land Division Committee came into beingin August 1971, it' has rendered 330 final decisions on applications. "Of these 87 per cent or 286, were approved, 12 per cent or 39 were denied and one per cent were withdrawn,"reported Mr. Davidson. '"Much of the discus- sion, therefore, revolves around the denial of 39 applications. Of these about two-thirds involved site problems such as poor soils, access, flooding, etc. Only 11, to about three per cent; were denied • strictly on grounds of . location, r• that is, scattered development or d ribbon development-" d "While the severance proce- dur'e,,tends to be.the most visible, e thecsubdivlsion process is by far I the most active," ,continued . Mr. • � mi#444 —Mrs. •ftoliert Procter of Bel grave was a Tuesday afternoon guest of Mrs. Mel Bradburn. —Senior members of the United Church Sunday School en- joyed a winter skating party at the -arena . Tuesday afternoon after, school. Lunch was' served following the skating. BRIDGE RESULTS The Howell system was used, First, Mrs. J. Langridge and J. H. Crawford; tied for second, MO. B. Porter and F. Moffat; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Fisher; Mrs. F. Moffat and Mrs. F. For- gie. so is that "only b r table twofeet d Problems arise from serv- autil organized pretests can the not enough cover, there is n icing, assessment provisions and Ivlay sE:ewar theywlU get approval, M ��� aid people get what the pub- visual appearance," the constituents. �• Is ee an they ' large y want."lic hearing or not." said Mr. t� Davidson A veteran of the -fights Pickering with Ontario Hydr and their plans to place high sion wires through. the towns and with the proposed intern tional airport, in addition to ,p vate contractors scarring landscape with open gravel, pi Mr. Muirhead encouraged DDT to make their desires known the province and Metro. He s there are alternatives to land and the government has to look them — now. "None of us like playing role of protestor with its great e penditure in time and money," said, but forecast, at the sam time, that more protest grou would be forming in the futur Peter " r Love eo f P oll �l uti on Pr He said at properly located ties in d supervised land fill sites are and Exeter, have effective guid vironmentally acceptable. - lines regarding the location a Mr. Williamson's. statements .servicing of mobile homes." ntradict those of Dr. B. I. Dale, "Trailers are a big industry i head of the health unit. He has Huron County and you don't fo given top priority to the investi- get it," Reeve Jack McCutcheo a tion of the proposal and ser- of Brussels told council. ly doubts that the ministry "If it is legal to build thes old properly control the site if things then it must be legal to pu tablished. them someplace," stated Reev The question period was cut Ev. Mcllwain, Goderich Town ho rt by a telegram from David ship. ombie, newly -elected Toronto Reeve Anson McKinley way th ayor, who expressed his con- staunchest opponent of the stric n for the people of the town- land use policies which make i p. He said he would press for a difficult -to sever a building lot i view of the situation by Metro a rural area. `'If we're going t ncil. have a blanket on non -planned i ��'! rff rrr✓ .rrr .S :r:: . rr• • r % .%r.. .rr• : r{,.,i,,?; � .; rrr. rrr• ,/jr r'%r. �% r • r %'•'r: ::: :•i: :•?i. iii :•rr in an ° en ten- hip, co a- ri-° the g ts, ions to co aid es fill sho • Cr the M cer x- shi he re e con Ps ore obs "Only two municipals- to control bank erosion Huron County, Seafor' e an n r - n e t t e c e, t t • t Erosion along the Lake Hur shoreline in the past weeks h resulted in slides which have c into the bluffs at Goderich. 0 such slide recently took 60 feet earth and trees into Lake Hur Goderich Town Council may t to the Maitland Valley Consery ion Authority for direction how to stop the erosion. Reeve Deb. Shewfelt said ommlttee of council is study- be problem and a course of ion could be decided at.a conn meeting to be held today (Thur day). One stopgap measure, plant- ees and shrubbery»on the slope ft the bluffs, s is not working, ng, aid. The big slide near Bingha Park pulled down mature birc trees despite their large, soil abbing roots. "Another problem is that th Us are too steep for planting. still favor using brush and tre mbs to cover the slopes," Mr Shewfelt said. Another alternative is "cros tiling" which collects runof water at the top of the bluffs and directs it down plastic tiles to the lake. Town foreman Stan Meriam said the high lake level and heavy runoff from a wet fall and mild winter are major causes of ero- sion. "All the rain we've been having is just running. wild because the ground is partially frozen. The ground gets full of water and is just carried away," he said. Mr. Meriam said part of the - problem would be solved if the level of the lake. drops to normal. The on The high water, he said, eats as away at the bottom of the banks ut while surface runoff cuts into the ne top. o m'n hot on said. n cl n h m used to sit on h have since slid into the lake. - Two small slides occurred along the Bingham Drive bluffs e near the major washout and a 10- 1 foot section of land split away e from the end of Essex Drive. • "The big problem for home- owners is that it doesn't just S break away in small sections, but f in big chunks," the reeve said. of "We'll probably have to put a n• concrete wall right along the whole shoreline someday, • but a` that would cost a fortune," he Reeve Shewfelt said one solu- tion would be to pack old barges g with concrete, jam them against ac- the shoreline and fill in the area i with stone. s- In the meantime, Goderich is .losing acres of land as the banks g keep wearing away. s Referring to the Bingham Park g e slide area, Reeve Shewfelt said "old timers" have told him barns acres of land that n 0 and a member of the Ontario o- Waste Management, told the C farmers who to write to in ronto. He told them to put pres sure on Metro and environmen Government Task Force on Solid hargex service a �, • tr 0 s officials with phone calls and le ters. He criticized both parties for'not haying people at the meet- ing to answer the questions of the gathering. • Mr. Love predicted that in a 32 - car train coming to a site in the township there would be six car- loads filled with excess packag- ing materials. Non returnable bottles would fill two-thirds of a car Three cars would be full of nevmpapers. Twelve cars ould be 'filled with, food and veSttable waste that could be composted and relieve some of the problems that we are having with fertilize ell's. Seven of the ears would be •\ tilled with other paper products. Tlast two cars would represent Oho glassproducts tionted be tt. for A. -T subscribers hi As a service to' the public, -The Wingham Advance -Times is making available the services of Chargex for the payment of subscriptions or classified advertising by mail or phone. 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READ The Advance - Times `'*► vivelara0 Tro same period. the Planning Board recommended approval of subdi- visions creating. some 373 new lots, tivo subdivisions comprising 57 lots were recommended' for denial, nd subdivisions encom- passingi88lots are under active consideration." . "The main , fficlilties "in the Land Divi ' ()Hey: would a r Q be around the creation of non -farm- ing residents -in' rural , areas," said Mr. Davidson. "The Draft Plan reflects provincial policy in this area and no attempt was un- dertaken during the preparation of the plan to research this topic in an extensive manner`." biles swe»I1 inj Snowmobile mishaps, car accidents. and key,. in that order, ,plug siei aiding , working and skating, caused a continued flow of accident cat t Wing - ham. - ham• and' District Uostpiital last week wham l3 perms were lain- dully in�iurod. T l.$th day of January was an i/iAlUckY oae for three snowmo- bilers who wound up at thei Wept, tai, with one admitted as a patient: Harold Knox of Blyth was ad- mitted to aoapital via atnbulance with facial injuries when he was thrown from his machine a quar- ter mile south of Teeswater.and a couple miles west on a sideroad. He was released after treatment. Const, Jensen .of Walkerton OPP investigated. Skis C�.ugbt >obert Baechler of Lighthouse Street, Goderich, suffered a frac- tured right collarbone and frac. shoulder -. as a result of being thrown from his mpchine when one of the skis caught on some ice a half mile east of Whitechurch on a farm. The acci- dent was investigated by Const. Foulon of the . Wingham Detach- ment, OPP. . A fall from another snow vehi cle resulted in an injured shoul der for Sharon Burchill of Gorrie Monday. Wingham OPP investi- gated. Glenn Fisher of RR 2, Wing - ham, fell' while skating at Luck - list now arida resultinga lacers- ted cheek and mouth. Monday of, last . week ,Je tray Loekridde, 17, Wingham, » frac- tured his nose Dying hockey at Lstowei aro . A fractured ht thumb while sleight"iding last Tbuxaday was the fate of ,Z3 -year-old Per Rammaloo of Myth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre l ann'naloo. Mx .involved e') One of the six drivers involved in a multiple. accident fast Friday an Highway 4 at the 4th of Mor't'is was Dick kerod ,of Galt and Wingham, who suffered back in, juries. Another driver, Gordon Coleman, 41, f +t,; Walkerton re- ceived contusions to. his hands. Both were released after= treat- ment. The accident was investi- gated by Const. McKittrick, Wingham Detachment, OPP. Brian Ste. Marie, 9, of Wing - ham, was struck in the left eye while playing hockey in Wingham arena Friday and received a deep laceration. Young Paul Steffen, six -year- old -son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Steffen of Teeswater lacerated his face when he fell on some glass. 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