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
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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.
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—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
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Love eo
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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
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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.
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on said.
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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
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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 �,
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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
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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.
John Schipper of Wingham had
the misfortune to lacerate his
right hand on a hand saw.
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