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BEST AVAILABLE COPY OFFICE SUPPLIES LIVING BBS LIGHTING Hwy Georgetown FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY APRIL 18tli 1990 PAGES landf pro balks at fighting new dump Regional councillors refused to take a stand last Wednesday on proposal to nut a landfill in its quarry partly located in HiUs a landfill which would dwarf the proposed Reclamations Systems In corporated RSI landfill at the Acton quarry In a close vote that pitted coun ciUors from the north against coun cillors from the south the Region s planning and public works com voted four to three not to outright reject the landfill proposal for the southern part of the quarry Rita Landry a merrber of local environmental group Protect Our Water Environmental Resources POWER said in an interview last Friday that the councillors were thinking too much of the area they represent and not enough about the entire Region The quarry is bordered on the east by the First Line in Halton Hills and in the west by the Sixth Line in Milton and has a long term capacity of to million tonnes of garbage The proposed Acton quarry has an 18million tonne capacity The committee ultimately dead to acknowledge the aggregate company s proposal The decision will go before Regional council to day Wednesday where further action could happen A vote against the proposal would have killed the idea said Mike O Connor the manager of Aggregates after the committee meeting Hills council rejected the proposal when Mr 0 Connor and Bill Townsend the vicepresident of St Lawrence Cement Dufferin s parent com recently appeared before the council Halton Hills is already in a costly battle with S I over the Acton dump proposal The two men also appeared before Milton council earlier this year and were told Milton s staff would investigate the proposal s feasibility Halton landfill is scheduled to open in Milton on Highway 25 near Britannia Road in Mr O Connor said the quarry company would have liked the sup port of both town council but the Regions support is key Without it Mr 0 Connor said the company will drop the idea The Region s support is most important because garbage disposal is the Region s responsibility he said The company isn optimistic Halton Hill s council will change its position or that Milton will eventually support the proposal We acknowledge it hard for municipalities to accept a landfill in their area said Mr 0 Connor The company is unsure what the committees decision means so it hasn decided what to do next said Mr Townsend Mr told committee members the initial engineering studies show a safe landfill could be built in the proposed site The landfill will help solve the garbage crisis in Halton and the rest of the Greater Toronto area in an en vironmentally sound manner Mr Townsend said Pickup truck crashes A Georgetown man an seizure when pickup truck of and District Memorial Hospital He is being treated for injuries but Is listed In stable condition at press time The But Regional Chairman Peter said after the meeting the company should interpret the committee s decision as one of support The councillors who voted to file the proposal for information were uncomfortable making a decision when they didn have all the necessary information on the feasibility of the landfill he said But I would have preferred if the committee had voted no said the chairman Burlington Regional councillor Barry said he can t support either motion to support or reject the proposal until the committee has more information If the aggregate company decides to pursue the proposal it will have to submit it to the com provincial tal assessment Chairman said only when the company had gone Continued on Page J Willow Park move to be challenged atOMB Region has given several Acton residents tentative permis sion to try and prevent Hills from permitting so permanent mobile homes in the Nor Halton Trailer Park in Acton The Acton park is to be the new home for residents now living in Willow park That park to being expropriated by the Craft Valley Conservation Authority because of dangerous flooding hazards The Regions planning and public works committee supported a Regional staff recommendation that Christine Dvies and Trevor and Jane be allowed to ap peal the towns plan to the Ontario Municipal Board The recommen dation will go before Regional council today Wednesday Despite concerns in the past from several area residents that mobile homes will deplete and con taminate their water supply the town earlier this year approved the site for the homes Mrs and Mr Roza echoed earlier concerns and told committee members Wednesday the 30 new homes would indirectly contaminate their water supply