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Times -Advocate, February 8, 1995
CQMMIINITY
One site left for landfill
Land owner is former warden Allan Gibson
By Fred Groves
T -A staff
GODERICH - After five years of
meetings, drilling holes and
scratching their heads in a bit of be-
wilderment, Huron County is much
closer to selecting a site for its new
landfill.
Thursday morning at
ruary session of
county council in
Goderich, Waste
Management co-
ordinator Craig Metz-
ger announced, "they
(consultants) are rec-
ommending three of
the four sites be
dropped. The one site
left is in Ashfield
Township."
The 86 -acre prop-
erty is owned by Ash-
field reeve and 1994 Huron County
warden Allan Gibson. So far, Metz-
ger said there has been no problems
with what seems to be a very large
conflict.
"He has to keep declaring a con-
flict of interest but other than that it
shouldn't be a problem," said Metz-
ger.
In 1989, the county began a study
which would eventually lead to a
new county wide mega dump
which will be able to solve all the
capacity problems the municipally -
owned landfills have had.
While all county municipalities
are striving to reduce the amount of
waste going to their landfills
the Feb -
through recycling, reuse and re-
duction, the landfills are over-
flowing.
When asked how much capacity
there is left in the municipal sites,
Metzger said, "it varies from zero
such as Tumberry (township) all
the way up to Stanley. Their last
one I saw was 30 years potential-
ly„
When the
study began,
several mu-
nicipalities
such as Ste-
phen and mid -
Huron in
Holmesville
had to scram-
ble to get ex-
tensions to
keep their
dumps open.
The extension stipulated that they
can stay open for five years or until
a county -wide site is available.
Reaching the point where they
have just one candidate site has tak-
en a long time. In the last year,
Metzger and the waste management
committee had come up with an-
other list of sites, this one had 11
possibilities.
"We eliminated seven of those 11
by walking the sites. We drilled the
four sites that were left and as a re-
sult of that, we eliminated three,"
said Metzger.
What happens now?
"The drilling we've done so far is
preliminary. We sunk five bore
"We had some
setbacks. Our first
go around at site
selection we
eliminated all the
sites. We had to go
back and redefine
our site criteria."
Snowy roads
result in only
minor
accidents
EXETER - Police patrols were
kept busy on the weekend with mi-
nor storm -related accidents and lo-
cal road closures.
Several vehicles were towed from
local highways after being aban-
doned by their owners. Police say
the vehicles were interfering with
snow plowing and had to be fe-
moved from the roadway.
There were four accidents investi-
gated on the weekend, but all were
considered minor in nature.
The OPP were also out patrolling
with snowmobiles on the weekend.
Exeter and other local towns were
patrolled by the detachments, as
well as local snowmobile trails.
Several charges were laid under
the Motorized Snow Vehicle Act,
but none of them were alcohol relate
ed, say police.
Trust fund
to donate
$900 to Park
BRINSLEY - Trustees from the
Brinsley Community Trust have ap-
proved a $900 donation to the Lieu-
ry Memorial Park Fund. The park
fund was established by the the
Township of McGillivray and the
McGillivray Athletic Committee to
help pay for improvements to the
park facilities.
The plans for the park include
building a lunch booth, adding a
pavilion and upgrading the wash-
room facilities.
In the past the trust has contrib-
uted to the McGillivray Township
History Book project, the renova-
tion of West McGillivray Town
Hall and the 150th Anniversary cel-
ebration of the township.
The new officers for the 1995
year were elected at the 12th annual
meeting of the trust. The new ap-
pointments are as follows: Charles
Corbett, president, Wes Hodgson,
secretary, Doug Lee, treasurer and
directors include Andrew Dixon
and Harvey Hodgins. Hodgson is
also the Township Reeve.
Dixon and Hodgins -are original
members of the trust which was
created to distribute the proceed of
the sale of the former Brinsley
school. The school was closed in
1983 and was purchased for use as
a community centre by the town-
ship. When numbers declined, it
was sold. Said Corbett, "According
to the constitution of the trust fund,
the proceeds are to go back into the
community.",
The trust is planning to +ghee
again sponsor the Brinsley com-
munity dinner in the spring, to be
held at the township hall.
•
holes on this particular parcel of 85
acres," said Metzger of the Ash-
field site. "We need to do more in-
tense drilling to see if it's suitable."
The Waste Management Master
Plan, which was initialized in 1989,
is now on its second co-ordinator
and it's second time for taking sites
and eliminating them through the
various methods of meeting or not
meeting criteria.
"We had some setbacks. Our first
go around at site selection we elim-
inated all the sites. We had to go
back and redefine our site criteria,"
explained Metzger.
Narrowing it down to the final
seven (which was the second go
around), Metzger and the com-
mittee looked for a better quality of
agricultural land and stricter regu-
lations on ground water protection.
Is the Gibson property the loca-
tion of the county landfill site?
"I hope so. I don't want to go
through it again, but we don't know
until we do more testing," said
Metzger.
If this is the site,then the next
step, following final testing which
will take up to a year, will be to
avoid having to go to an environ-
mental hearing.
Metzger said an environmental
hearing process will add another
year -and -a -half and it probably
won't be until early 1998, nearly
ten years since the study was
launched, that Huron County will
have one landfill site.
Grading in Lucan
The Lucan Karate School held a grading on January 22, promoting several students to
yellow and orange belts. In front, from left, are new yellow belts Natalie Laprise, Craig
Leyes, Chris Beach -Wallis, Melissa Laprise, and David Taylor. Standing, from left, are
sensei Leo Loucks, yellow belts Bonnie Laprise, Steve Fuller, Ron Leyes, and orange
belts Marianne Noyes, and Juanita Kop, and yellow belts John Taylor, Greg Challis, and
sensei Dan Bell.
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