Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), March 16, 1988, p. 6

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million capital budget forecast own will spend over IS million on capital In 1MB Budget Commlttot preliminary recommendations an fourth Una Lot for travel returfadng on vatic roads and MS repairs The Lot levies and Income from other would pay for ho remaining million In capital pro ject A large chunk of the Towns ex It a T million loan to the Halton Hydro Commitalon That will pay Tor Hydro a to Acton In Ibt coming year The committee to spend about million on transportation services on on lbs Tin department on recreation and cultural and about 70 on llbrary most expensive tranaporta Hon project the town wants to under take in 1HS Is 1344 reconstruction of the streets and storm drainage works to Road In the Glen Lea Subdivision That protect Is llstad thirteenth on the list of transportation priori tie The fire department first priori is to purchase a traffic signal con trol device that allows The fire department change the traffic lights to green from vehicles The department wants to Install tfai Included in projects for the coat of about Also on the list of possible capital alrs to the paper mill dam on for 1MB is tha blue box Georgetown and and prchSe of Willow of two new recycling trucks at total Support April Campaign piease give Signs of spring The municipality also expecting to pay out about for projects in Carol Man Carta and Donna models on band to fishtail at the Bridal Pins Fashion Show Satnr POWER meets day at the Terra Inn la the bore photo the model bathing mill from Day Blots In Georgetown E on authority pro Group still worried about dump process has a priority list which It hopes Will be approved by town council when It considers Ihe budget The biggest expense for the ad section is a 00O contribution to pay for the towns million Civic Centre expected to be completed by December Over It earmarked or repairs to the concrete bridge on Main street In Glen Williams number one priority on the transpor tation servlcea list Other transportation projects high up on the priority list include Avenue Trafalgar- Read and Maple Avenue and Guelph Street and Drive The pro jects would coat just under a year until 1S03 The fire department also wants to purchase a utility support vehicle at a coat of First on the list of recreation and cultural services Is in repairs to the roof and walls of Georgetown Memorial Arena In 1968 The town wants to spend a total of on repairs on the old arena spreading ding on a the Acton arena and DO ODD on repairs to the Cedarvale cot tage By MOODER Herald Staff People left Thursdays POWER meeting feeling their concerns about the proposed Acton dump had not been resolved said POWER presi dent Ruth French Over 100 people crowded into the Public School to have questions answered by two Ministry of the Environment representatives The citizens group bated In Limehouse has been objecting to the landfill site since It first heard of the proposal from Reclamation Systems to make an application to build a landflD site at the Acton quarry POWER members do not feel the Environmental assessment act Is be ing enforced with toe private com Region had to do research on alternate sites to rind the safest lite on which to build a dump Mrs French said These choose he on wh they can make the most money she said should look at the safest and go ahead rather than go with a te to make money she said POWER just wants the Ministry of Environment to address the money Issue Hal ion Region pumped in millions of dollars to do on study on several sites and the private propo nent should not set the easy way out Mrs French said Tim Sharp environmental plan her in the assessment branch of the Ministry said Ministry just to insure that the process is lor the proponent Systems and the pubic representatives do Understand the concerns of Region and Hal Ion Hills In general The proponent will have to look at ail reasonable alternative Bites and alternative ways of dealing with waste disposal Mr Sharp said But he added Reclamation Systems is limited in the Bites It can examine in that is unable to ex propria land They can only con aider landfill sites where the owner agrees to sell or lease the land Mr Sharp added that the sent must convince a committee thai the chosen Is environmen tally sound Every landfill site receives a of approval from the of the Environment A Georgetown man said he did not Understand the environmental Assessment process when the Region had to spend thousands of dollar and the proponent could cir cumvent the system The answer is not In circumven ting the system but to look alter natives was the reply Mr said the Ministry ex peels see Reclamation Systems bote quarry sites owned by the opany and snow definite proof Why it chose the one It did SAME DAY TAX RETURNS Si 8772217 to determine where to place Its land fill site While the basis for the Regions decision was which site was the most environmentally sound the propo nent site Is diminished by the number of business deals they can make she said George Nelson officer for the HaltonPeel district of the Ministry of the Environment tion Systems must satisfy the Judge of an independent board the board is not satisfied it is highly unlikely the proposal will go ahead he said The Georgetown resident was curious as to whether studies done by the Region rejecting quarry sites would be taken into consideration Mr Sharp assured the gentleman that those opposed to the landfill site will be able to tell why they tee the site should be rejected The must show why a original study was wrong and how they can improve the site Mr Nelson said the Ministry is concerned with water contamination caused by leaching the quality of water flowing In Black reek and the proximity of the dumps to the homes Concerns about the landfill site have been stated and it is up to Reclamation Systems Inc to ad dress these concerns he said Now it is up to the proponent to satisfy the board he said POWER for Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources The 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