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"A Family Tradition for 125 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, September 17, 1991 - 11 Ir nd | ter Landfill site search open house draws large crowd ) By Scott Anderson the area. operation by early 1996. rogeology, | d social public to participate in the ac- _ The recent landfill site selec- The open house at the Odd- Mr. Steele said the informa- frees 6Y. land use and sexta baal oo of the process, | tion open house in Scugog drew fellows Hall was part of IWA's tion and comments gathered "ppg 1WA ig the first agency which will be used to choose the an impressive crowd, says an selection process for three long- during the o n house will be 4, 4ocument the proposed land- landfill sites." Interim Waste Authority IWA) term landfill sites including reviewed and inserted in the gi) cite coarch DE ask Although a long list of sites spokesman. one in Durham Region. Along Draft Approach and Criteria g. ;uhlic comment before un- for Durham is to be released John Steele, IWA communi- list of sites will be identified in (DAC) document. The DAC doc- dertaking the site search," Erv sometime in mid- to late- cation co-ordinator, says the 80 November, a shorter list willbe ument contains approximately Meint re, INA general manag- November, Mr. Steele said they feople that attended the open made public in February, with 30 Pages of suggested criteria op said at a recent press confer- haven't been to any sites yet. ouse on Sept. 9 in Port Perry the final site named in August, dealing with areas such as agri. ence. "These documents repre- "All of Durham is on the table was the highest number of peo- 1992. The landfill siteistobein culture, biology, geology, hy- ple, next to Mississauga's 130 people. But when it came to compar: ing the two groups, Mr. Steele said he found gog's resi- dents were much more knowl- edgeable of the situation. He . credited the local media with keeping the readers well in- formed of the process, as well as Zero Garbage/Scugog, whom he said was doing a lot to keep the community informed. He said they have been work- ing closely with Zero Garbage over the past number of weeks, and has been impressed with the way they are getting in- volved. Mr. Steele said the public's biggest concern was whether there was a chance that the landfill site was coming to Scu- gog. He said many were curious as to how the selection process would be done. Conrad Gelot, IWA program advisor, co-ordinating the Dur- fan in scl, i oun people o! to generally. well informed, and realized they were "following common sense." He pointed to the fact that Durham has already been through this process with an earlier selection plan for the P1 site in Pickering which was bcc | SPRINTS ASTROVANS TRACKERS LUMINAS Mr. Gelot said a number of the people were wondering if SUPER SELECTION OVER 20 AVAILABLE SUPER SELECTION . SUPER SELECTION the IWA was intending to use i : 6 Yo choose from ing the site. ve mation | 1.9%0 financing" 1.9% financing" 1.900 foancing® "hk Cond, V6 Engine $ from sent an opportunity for the asofnow,"hesaid. ag no IAAI Ara Ps bl > il A el rr a 'yes'or 'no'," he said. One thing which Mr. Steele Wie $ 5 $ ok $ ) noticed that Se) the people of | Scugog apart from those i8- : sissauga was that the Scugog [ J I J 1 residents were more interes STOCK #91708 oo and concerned about the pro- al Sadie cess, while the Mississauga res- Shay Jers Were Jushresceing to the ught of alan . . Mr. Steele said the Missis- JAAS OD WHA awa BEEN BOND ST. b_| sauga people were driven by 35 monks 70% - 48 month 89%. Financing OAC on Q rome and were oppose a caries dnd cashbechs Seuigred gd \ \ . |B the other hand, not only ex- 505 Duar 1or RIBS Id GUAM, - f J al i sal \ 140 BOND ST. W. 725-6501 pressed their views on the land- fill situation but ais suggested alternatives such as incinera- tion and transporting the waste CHEVROLET « OLDSMOBILE tonorthernlocations. Mr. Gelot said he had to ex- lain that they were instructed y Natural Environment Min- ister Ruth Grier to carry out the landfill site selection process, and therefore incineration was out of the question. Both Mr. Steele and Mr. Ge- lot said they found the Scugog residents more concerne about Scugog, and were able to argue effectively why they didn't want the landfill site in 'Hospital Report August 30 - September 5, 1991 Admissions............................ 32 Births..........c.ooooiiiiinieinen. 10 Deaths............cooevvviviiiiiieennnee. 0 Emergencies........................ 271 'Operations................ccccoeeeennn. 9 Discharged............................30 Reémmining. 5... 44