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wmnwoammm-mmmou-s ‘ , VISll kitchenerklacom @ 519-571-2828 Up in the air ‘ ' adl' ide ° With no de me for closure, the debate on wests dump continues -- The Waterloo Region landfill, originally If the biosolids master plan is approved -‘ ‘r - opened in 1972, now sits right next door to at council. there is a 30-day public consulta~ l l the City of Waterloo's urban development. tion period. and the final plan would require ‘ This is the third in a three-part series that environmental approvals before it could be ' ‘ examines the uneasy relationship between implemented. ’ o the landfill and the locals. But at this point. no one is sure how long , the dump will be open. or what will happen ~ » . ‘ r By (3mm plow [)an to our waste once it closes é ' Chronicle Stallr The region is still working from a waste » 4 ‘ management master plan that was created - Waterloo Regionlandfillhasbeen open 2h years ago, with five year updates ever _ Thfralmostwyeaisandthereaienoplans smce. ‘ todoseit Work on a new waste management mas- * . - ., Now, the Region of Waterloo is consider" ter Pl“! will start this summer. said Linda Q â€"~.. g ing adding biosolids to the site -â€" essentially Churchill, semor enVironmental engineer at ' «‘ treated P00P- "‘9 “marl“- . . . . . i ‘ The department of water services is cur- “Overall. the le‘SK’n W1" heed "Um" 3‘ ' fl , rently working on an update to the 2003 when: were going. “Willem. she 53m- = ‘9 V _ biosolids master plan. When it goes before "Where were gomg m 10 Ye???» mWPv I he council on lune 21. that plan will include a 25 yearsâ€" beyond the use cfmlsfacmty- '- "‘ \ up ‘ ‘ preferred option of tmcking biosolids from . Starting m 2012: the resign “"11 startfill- .1: * .-. v “ as all of the region's 13 wastewater treatment mg the 135‘ north-end “cell "‘ essentially & \"” A ' ‘1“ g; . _ . plants to one place, where it would be sub» the hole, With a liner of clay and stone, , . ‘ .. g r , ject to a heat drying process. where garbage is dumped. That cell Sits " " ‘ g, 3 , ., 1 x a" . ‘ “We started to look at me opportunity of right behind Waterloo Commons at Erb v \ ‘ ‘ having heat drying and . . . there would be a Street and Ira Needles Boulevard. " _‘ ’- ‘. g ‘1 benefit if we looked at a strategy of using 09”?"de on the volume ell-83mg? that ' ‘ ‘ , some of the hiogas that‘s available from the comes In. the cell could be used for two or The current tipping face. where garbage is dumped daily. is at the south end ofthe landfill. landfill." said Nancy Kodousek, director of three years. After that. them are four more There are still five cells to be filled with garbage. and the region is now investigating the p09 water services cells in the south end still to be filled. adja- sibility of processing all of the region's biosolids at the site. ‘30 that's where we saw there was an cent to the current site just behind the mmmm opportunity for wages: Boardwalk commercial development. “There haven’t been that many facilities down of the site. people who live, work and shop near the Recycling and the diverSion of yard waste like that built in Ontario. We can learn a lot “It will take us 10 years to shut it down. landfill may see biosolids processing as haw? extend“ the life Span 0f the ab Streel from what they've done.” But if we don't start now â€" do we really more stink, and less asan “opportunity.' landfill. Though no time frame has been set, think we're going to put up with this for If the Waterloo landfill site on Erb street “We're a victim of our own sum.” said eventually the Waterloo landfill site will be another30yeats?’ hesaid. becomes the chosen location, Kodousek waste management director ion Arsenault. naturalized. “it’s a nuisance industrial facility that said biosolids would be shipped there in During the 19805. about 500.000 t0"le ‘In 20 years, I envision that we would be doesn't belong next door to a residential trucks. Currently unused energy would be 9f garbage were landfilled each year. NOW. able to use the landfill as a green space for neighbourhood. It just doesn‘t.” used to heat dry the biomlids inside a closed It's about 215.000 tonnes annually- ln 2010. Waterloo residents to enjoy, similar to Westvale resident Anne Chllds said she building near the Tommont power plant. 3900 mime} 0‘ waste were diverted through McLennan Park in Kitchener." said Mayor doesn't have an agenda to close the landfill. But Kodousek said the department is the green hm ProSmm- . ‘ Brenda Hallomn. But by allowing development right up to the already trucking biosolids through the “We have one of the highest diversion But transitioning from steaming garbage edges, she feels the region has forfeited the region. rates In the prownce.” Churchill said. About pile to idyllic trails and recreational space right to operate it at that location. “Currently, we haul dewatered cake â€" $1 per cent 0f residential W519 is not 80mg would require careful planning and tough 'Theie needs to be a conversation about , j which is what we call it â€"â€" we have a practice ""0 landfill. ChOice& this that hasn't happened yet." she said. 1 of putting it in a sealed truck. and it goes to a The new W351? management master plan “What will be interesting will be, in 20 The process of creating a master plan landfill outside the region." 00“” 100k a} different ways of collecting years when that landfill has outlived it’s use- could kick-start that conversation. » The region also already dewaters garbage. setting has llmlts- partnenng With ful life, what do we do then?” said David “Asaregion, citizensneed to decide what ‘ biosolids at several sites. Other municipalities. or operating an incin~ Roewade. the region’s environmental sus- should be the approach to waste manage- I “That operation is ongoing, and from erator. tainability planner, ment for the next 25 years. Do we want to l lime to “me we have customer issues and The Region of Durham is expected to “There may be some very unpopular continue to landfill?” Churchill said l weaddress them," she said, start constructing a stale-of-the-art options.” “But it's not an easy decision. Nobody } “The single drying facility would be an incineator this {3“- . , ‘ Beechwood resident and member of the wants to deal with garbage. They want it } enclosed facility and would have odour con- _ "To me. thats an excmng pmlect because landfill liaison committee Henrik Noesgaard picked up from the curb, and they don’t 1 trol systems built into it.” "'5 very Innovative," Churchill said. thinks it's time to start planning the shut want to know what happens to it" j uâ€" l\* I. . 4"1‘ t~ ml "‘ l\ll Silkwll l l'\5tl\l \‘.t‘l \ll\ C" til u ‘ OMARHHR'» not ~ ~ \ ~ ~ l HEERS ' 4 “ K '\ p l , 1‘ \ ‘ ; - ~ \ DECORATING .' ‘ ‘ \ ‘ K 1‘1 ‘ “ \ â€"a DESIGN CENTRES â€"' , r. Z§l\l\vl x \ ~ \ \ ~ __________ ,1 - . M t seamngStmm.,wmnoo . 519) 772-1121 677 mm. W. lizoVictorh St. N.. ,, . . y _‘ r ; ‘ l .r k meme momma id‘lllllllllll \l‘"”(- t, ti 3 .\ ,_ lilix‘ t \, , t . \ (5‘fl573-53m (519)576-7578 tumult... _ t- it. www.mndocorltlngcom