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Quarry landfill proposal receives designation The proposal to build a landfill site in Acton quany by Reclamation Systems RSI has been officially designated under tbe Environmental Assess ment Act by the province Halton North MPP Walt Elliot said the designation wag ap proved by cabinet over two weeks ago Everythings been finalized said Mr Elliot Monday Now they know theres a fight on The designation means RSI has submitted all the necessary draft documents to formalize their ap plication he said RSI wants to place a landfill in the quarry capable of handling 20 million tonnes of waste over years The citizens group POWER Protect Our Water and En vironmental Resources has been fighting landfill site for almost two years POWER says putting a dump in the quarry would en danger the water supply of almost 100000 people In Halton Hills and Milton because toxic pro duced at the dump could leak Into tbe aquifer which runs underneath the site The dump would handle waste from surrounding municipalities possibly including Metro Toronto Tbe RSI proposal will be the first private application to go through the stringent regulations of the act Previously private proposals were designated under the less Environmental Protection Art Late last year members of the proposed Acton quarry landfill study group many of whom were POWER members walked out of public information hearings demanding the designation and intervener funding from the pro vince bo they could hire con sultants to study tbe technical aspects of the proposal The official designation has always been expected said Mr Elliot But the government couldnt designate the proposal until all the draft documents had been submit ted he said Ministry of Environment workers are now poring over the draft documents he said the public liaison officer for Eco Logic Laboratories the consulting firm handling the public consultation process for RSI said the designation makes no difference We had always expected that it would be designated under the EA Act she said Consultants are now preparing the second and possibly final draft documents she said Those documents will be approved by RSI then sent on to the within two weeks she said Once the second set of draft documents are submitted the public will get another chance to study them she said Logic wants to bold more public consultation hearings but firm hasnt yet decided on the format said Ms Daffern POWER cochairperson Ruth French said tbe group that the proposal might slip away from Environmental Assessment designation The group had requested in tervener funding earlier in tbe pro cess so they can hire consultants she said Normally intervener fun ding is provided by the province after a consolidated hearing board date is set to examine the proposal There has been no response yet from the province OPEN 10 10 DAILY Florists Tlie feeling ends EXTENDED VALENTINE HOURS FabruaryB 10 131 Frb Sun Feb it NORTHV1EW CENTRE 211 Guelph St Georgetown 8776901 FREE DISTRIBUTION FEBRUARY 11 1989 28 PAGES Pools issue remains at virtual standstill Kicking it up with heart Work That Body health club at the corner of Moun Road and Guelph Street held two to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation Wednesday Work That Body owner Laurie Burns said over 200 people took part in the two threehour sessions Organizers predicted they would raise over from the event A similar event held two years ago raised more than Herald photo Daycare expansion gets goahead Halton Region approved an amendment to its official plan Wednesday allowing a Georgetown resident to expand her daycare centre at Main St North The proposal provoked an exten sive debate at Hills council last summer Lucy cur rently operates a daycare centre for five children in the house However in order to expand the facility to handle children an amendment to Haltons official plan Is needed At a public meeting last sum one resident and the towns engineering department objected to the proposal citing traffic con cerns The engineering depart ment and the resident said cars stopping to drop off and pick up children would create a hazardous situation on a relatively busy sec tion of Main Street Mrs and several users of tbe centre argued that the ser vice is desperately needed In Hills and that the location could be made safe through changes on the property towns site plan committee has approved the proposal which ensures that all dropoffs and pick will be done on private proper ty said Haltons planning commis sioner Rash Mohammed Neither the towns engineering department nor the neighboring resident has formally objected to the official plan amendment be said l The original agreements bet ween the town of Halton Hills and the Halton Board of Education covering the two school pools in town have arbitration clauses which allow either party to ask to renegotiate the agreements Haltons superintendent of business services Jerry Jenkins says The Halton Board of Education is seeking cost sharing agreements with Hills Oakville and Burlington for the maintenance of the two school pools located each the municipalities The board says its costing them more than million a year for maintenance on the six school pools But Hills Mayor Rubs Miller said last week the agreements between the town and the board dictate the board must pay for the maintenance of the pools for the life of the pools town says the life of the pools is established at 20 years The Georgetown pool agreement runs out in 1996 McKenzieSmith pool In Acton was built in tbe early 1970s The arbitration clauses cant be used by the board to force the town s hand into a cost sharing agreement said Mr Jenkins The board had attempted to take the matter to arbitration but tbe town of Hills and the board could not agree on what issues should be arbitrated said Mr Jenkins So the board is seeking a court definition of the life of a pool he said The definition of a life of a pool was not established In the original agreement but rather In a leasing agreement said Mr Jenkins He could not comment on the leasing agreement because its contents will be decided in the courts Georgetown and area trustee Dick said Tuesday legal suits could be avoided if the town and tbe board could agree on the definition of life of a pool The board voted last week to in vestigate the feasibility of closing all school pools in Halton Follow Ing that vote Mayor Miller said the town could sue the board to keep the two pools In Halton Hills open Mr Howitt would not say if he would favor letting the issue go that far The board contends that Halton Hills residents use the pool to per cent of the time while tbe schools only use tbe pools 30 to per centof the time On that basis the town should help pay maintenance costs he said One pool in in Burl ington already has a cost sharing agreement with that city he said All were saying is we think the cost should be shared in such a way that Its reflecting the use he said Shopping plaza proposal A local developer wants to build a 20000 ft shopping plaza next to Georgetown Honda on Highway 7 Brazlln Investments has applied to amend the Halton Hills Official Plan to allow the shopping plaza current zoning on the land pro hibits large supermarkets and department stores and the official plan amendment will allow such uses as trust companies or finance companies business and profes sional offices convenience stores dry cleaners laundromats retail stores hardware shops and restaurants Town staff will report back to council with a recommendation on the application Students show pride flwPage CORNER OF ST HWY MOUNTAINYIEW RD GEORGETOWN 8772418 BANQUET HALL AVAILABLE Play safe hockey