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Resident irkiydat"gtiil&ht' garbage left on city street Ctii1tiittidé' Garbage left on Sunvicw Street in Waterloo. Two longtime Lincoln Road area residents say a former City of Waterloo landfill site was never located above the hill northeast of Moses Springer Park. William Ulfelman. 74, who still lives on Lincoln Road just above the hill, and Herb Quickfall, 70, who grew up on a farm that stretched south from the current Glenridge Plaza, both said in Interviews late last week the former land- fill site was never located on the wesl side of Lincoln Road between Marshall Street and Mayfield Avenue, Mcolleclioqs at. lump: IlIqdf,l,lll! sue conllnue In timer A former area resident, Con- nie Smith, said In a recent interview she remembered the former dump bong located above the hill northeast of Moses Springer Park where a number of homes are located today. A report prepared for the City of Waterloo Aug, 16 said an abandoned City of Waterloo landfill site in the park was pol- luling nearby laurel Creek and generating methane gas at Tim Gardner Chit-nub- Stall Ui!elman IS a life-long Waterloo resident who has lived at his current Lincoln Road house since 1952, while Quickfall lived on his hmily's farm from 1929 until 1960. The city didnt officially close the former landfill site until potentially dangerous levels When asked if the former dump had ever been located above the hill overlooking Moses Springer Park, Uffelman said no “ll never did," he said. "l played here as a kid, I know the area There's no way, no." When Uflclman was asked where he thought the former landfill site was located, he sad that was easy "From my recollection, it never even got anywhere close to Moses Springer Park. Fr -resident Herb Ouickfall " would be right about A 1hckorv btreet woman ty led up With large piles of unbagged garbage bong placed along my streets In areas domr nated by student housmg Pam butler sad last Wednes- day she was dnvmg along Sun- vlew Street last Tuesday where il (the Moses Springer pool and community centre) 15 now," he said "That was all part of t Everybody 1n town wondered why they were building that there when we all knew this had been a dump." As for Quickfall. he said the dump was never located above the hill northeast of Moses Springer Park. But he said it was never located in Moses Springer Park either. "From my recollection, it never even got anywhere close to Moses Springer Park," Quickfall said, "My mental pic- lure of " nght now is that the mam bulk of the dump IS right under Lincoln Road." Quicklall said he currently believed the bulk of the dump was located under Lincoln Road southeast of Moses Springer Park and southeast of the first few homes located on the hill immediately above the park. Lincoln Road originally veered south from the current YMCA to link up with Bridge- port Road East near the current Tien Hon Inn, thch makes It hard for people to accurately (Continued on page 2) Tim Gardner L hmrm If 51qu afternoon when she noticed a huge mound ol unbagged garbage sunng on the boulevard In front ol one house Beam Tuesday IS the areais garbage das and because collection ly m the morning butler delernnned that cuher uly workers had refused to pink up the garbage or that whoever had put out the garbage hadnl bothered io look First year Wilfrid laurier University students Diane Charlton (left) of Georgetown and laina Majnovic of Chatham were out prancing on the corner of Bridgeport Road East and Weber Street North Saturday during WLU's annual Shinerama campaign to raise money for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. First year WLU students raised approximately $62,000 this year to fight CF by shining everything from car windows to shoes. In ew." pin-o lnw when the areas normal garbage collection day ts When bullet got home, she Immediately called Waterloo?, bylaw erdorcemeru department and an ofhcer said the earliest anyone could come our and rake a look at the summon was Wednesdav morning When a my garbage truck stopped at the garbage pile on Wednesday (Continued on page 2) Miller went out to talk wnh the garbageman and a student who was helpmg throw the plle mm the truck "l sud ‘( an you pack all thrs Stull up? .uul he sud "Well I dont anl to, ' butler mud when asked what she sad lo the garbagenran "And I looked di ll VOLW