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Happy 40th Birthday "Gordie** Letter to the Edito Dear Sir/Madam: 3) A landfill will not be put The residents of Clarke 500 metres of a town, village or Township have just been treated to the spectable of Laidiaw Waste Management Systems' latest 'Open House' in pursuit of their proposed expansion of their landfill site northeast northeast of Newtonvillc. The May Î6th 'OperPHouse' iS the 4th in a ■ e- of eâ'dh evènts. Once again we were presented with glossy, superficial presentations presentations by a small army of consultants consultants and so-called experts. Perhaps they believe that if you say Something often enough, people will believe you. It was truly a triumph of style over substance: However, a more likely explanation for their performance is that they really don't care what we think of. their plans. Laidlaw is required'to hold such Open Houses as part of their pre-submission under the Environmental Environmental Assessment Act. In this case they are simply 'going through the motions' to satisfy the Act. To be fair, it must be difficult to be credible when you are trying to convince people that they_ won't be adversely effected by a site that has twice been rejected for expansion because of environmental concerns. The fact that it has a long and checkered history of problems doesn't help either. If there were serious environmental problems # with a 20 acre site, what rational person would believe that a 120 acre site is safe. There are some thing» that evenjmoney cannot change. A recent article in the 'Country Sun' described the search for a landfill site in Victoria County. In 1987 they formed the 'Victoria County Waste Management Technical Advisory Committee to assist the county in their search. That committee established absolute absolute criteria to guide them, name- !y: 1) A landfill site will not be placed within 500 metres of a recognized water course or lake. (The Laidlaw, Site is located on the brink of Graham Creek, an important ecological water system in the area.) 2) A landfill will not be put within 500 metres of Class I, II or III wetlands. (The Laidlaw Site is situated in 'Wetlands' described in the Town of Newcastle Zoning By- ' 'law'.') ■ ■ '■■■■■ built-up residential areas. (Although not that close, Newton- ville is just over the hill, and the Village of Newcastle is within smelling smelling range of a large scale dump,) 4) An area with natural recharge capabilities such as gravel and sand pits, will not be selected. (The. Laidlaw Site is located on an old sand and gravel pit, and the whole area is surrounded by pockets of sand and gravel.) In addition to this very specific criteria, the Committee also wants to avoid a site that needs to be 'engineered' by using a liner, preferring instead a site that can utilize natural soil properties to prevent prevent seepage. (Laidlaw's proposal relies heavily on liner technology that, in their view, will allow the site to be safely engineered.) Victoria County would also like to avoid using good agricultural land. (Laidlaw's site expansion will destroy hundreds of acre» of prime agricultural land.) Using Victoria County's criteria and restraints, the Laidlaw proposal proposal would not get past first base. The Town of Newcastle agrees it is not suitable, the Region of Durham agrees, but still our community continues continues to be harassed. We will soon , be forced to defend ourselves at the Ontario Municipal Board, the Environmental Environmental Assessment Board etc., etc.... But perhaps Laidlaw is not concerned concerned about the merits of their proposal if they believe that they can wear down their opposition by a protracted and costly battle. Wrong again, Laidlaw. Yours truly, David Scott President, Committee of Clarke Constituents HERITAGE '89 (Continued from page 1) depression and carnival glass, coca and coffee pots, bells and tools, collector collector dolls, tins, old photos of the Village, kitchen tools as well as a historical, display by St. Saviour's church. One can add to this a cpl- Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 24, 1989-3 Clarke Township Museum & Archives Bird House/Feedci' Design Competition Just a reminder that the bird house competition is coming up fast on Sunday June 4. Competition categories are: Preschool; 6-10 year olds;' 11-14 year olds; 15-17 year olds with First, Second and Third prizes in all age. groups; 18 and up.. .Special Adult Category...Curator's Award for Most Original (and functional) Design. One prize only. There is no fee to enter and all are welcome. Judging will be by a juried panel and contestants will be assigned competition numbers. Judge's decisions are final. All participants participants will receive a Certificate of Merit for entering. Bring your entry to the Museum at 12:30 on June 4 for registration. Judging will commence at 1:30 p.m. sharp! The Museum Will not accept entries prior to June 4th but, all entrants entrants must notify the museum of their planned participation by May 31 at 5:00 p.m. New Exhibit Opens... On Thursday, June 1st, 'In Repose' Victorian Funeral Customs & Practices will open for it's summer summer run at the Museum. Back by popular demand and bigger & better better than ever! The exhibit will be open to the public during regular Museum hours for June, July & August. (In November 'In Repose' will be travelling to the Peterborough Peterborough Museum & Archives for a two month stay arid in June, July & August of 1990, 'In Repose' will be on display at the Fort Erie Historical Museum (near Niagara Falls). Clarke Museum Bus Trip For ■ those people who) have already booked for the trip <jn May 25 to the Huronia Historic Parks (Saint Marie Among the Hurons & the Historic Naval & Military Establishments) Midland/Pen- tanguishene. There will be a second departure point in ORONO at 8:05 a.m. for those wishing to pick up the bus a bit closer to home. The bus will still leave from the Museum at Kirby at 8:00 a.m. and will stop on Church Street in front of the Clarke Library briefly at 8:05. If you plan to take the bus from Orono, please be on time!!! For those who haven't decided yet, there are still a few seats left. Cost is $22. - adults, $19, - seniors, call the Museum for details/bookings. details/bookings. Tanglefoot Concert As part of Heritage Week '89, the Museum in conjunction with the Port Granby-Newcastle Environment Environment Committee is sponsoring a special heritage concert with 'Tanglefoot' at Clarke High School, on June 1st at 7:00 p.m. Cost $7.00 per person. (This includes includes two separate shows!) Tickets are available at: Clarke Museum, Fitness Centre in Bowmanville and Reflections Gift Shop in Orono. Don't be disappointed, get your tickets NOW! „ lection of clocks dating back to the period Of wooden works, old newspapers arid more. Also included included in the hall will be a community quilt being started by the Orono Church ladies and one may add a stitch or two to the quilt which Will be raffled off. The Town Hall will also have demonstrations of canning,' rushing, basketing, and preservation preservation of artifacts. ' There is to -be autograph sighing of the local historical book "Out of the Mist". ■'■"■■■' Moving 1 outside the Kinsmeii have arranged fm an antique car display along,with 1 the bid. Orono Fire Truck. At 2:00 p.m. a walking lour to view heritage homes in Orprio gets under Way leaving from the steps of the Town Hall. And not to be forgotten is the Country Hoe-DÔwh with tickets at. $5.99 per couple now available at Reflections. Laidlaw Waste Systems Ltd. (Continued from page 1) In an information sheet available at the open house Laidlaw notes that 32 farmers within a two mile radius of the landfill expansion proposal proposal have'been interviewed. In the main most have objections with the largest objection being that of water quality. Laidlaw have noted that from tests of domestic wells in the area some have tested with no contamination contamination while others are contaminated. contaminated. They lay claim that the contamination is not from the existing existing dump site but rather from septic systems, agriculture run-off and road salt. They also point out that observation observation wells have been drilled in the area of the proposed expansion and will be used as an early warning system to monitor the leachate collecting collecting system. Much of the documentation for the expansion proposal has yet to be completed but the document will be available for public viewing. As to transportation routes to the expansion site all are from Highway 401 using either existing roads, a combination of new roads and existing existing roads and one.an entirely new road. Laidlaw has yet to make a final decision of the seven options -which were before the public at the open house. Regional council support Metro deal Durham Regional council on and other Regional areas north and Wednesday'voted to supporta deal east of Greater Toronto, with Metre) joining forces for atem- Council voted 21 to 10 in joining porary dump in Pickering with Metro and for the operating of Township in the Whitevaie area. the Pi site near Whitevale. The motion rescinded a ' form In the meantime Gary Herrema, resolution that Durham would go it chatçman .of Durham, is tP' see if the alone in seeking dump facilities. federal government would be in- Durham also voted to join the teresting in parting with some of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) long- federal lands north of Whitêvàle for term garbage solution. a possible dump. Over the past years the majority . Testing of the PI site is expected of waste from Durham has*§een,go- <-■; to get underway'in themear, future ing to the Brock West dump, a . and.it has been mentioned that the dump which.is owned and operated environmental act will tie shorten- . by Metro.' " ed. In the case of the riew temporary under the deal approved on dump' Durham will own and : Wednesday Durham will have sole operate the dump with Metro pay- use of the Brock West dump in mid ing a fee for tipping. Over the life 1990 which would then carry them of the temporary dump Durham is over into 1992 when the new site is expecting to gain some $190 million open. in revenue. The temporary dump is There is strong opposition from expected to operate from 1992 to those in the Pickering area over the 1996 when a long-term solution is PI plan and this opposition is ex- expected for the greater Toronto pected to carry on. area which would include Durham << Clarke Museum & Archives Hwy. 35/115 at Regional Road 9, Kirby Port GranbyNewcastle Environment Committee Presents TANGLEFOOT" in concert at CLARKE HI.GH SCHOOL Thursday, June 1st at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $7.00 per person and are available at • CLARKE MUSEUM (KIRBY) , FITNESS CENTRE (BOWMANVILLE) REFLECTIONS GIFT SHOP (ORONO) For Information Call: Mark Jackman 983-9243