Dump search eýould e logcstiy TRICIA McCOURT guides her horse Rosha over a fence in the beginner jumper category of the Durham Cup horse show held in Brooklin on Sunday. poo The province search. for a long-term'dumpl site ini Durham Region will not only be a costly repeat. exercise that will delay local waste management, but a ion mreagoizngproceas, syWbitby pliticans. <And theéoa representatives on regional council ob)ject to the 'big brother' approach taken by the prvice te find a long-term dump site. A Durham committeehad been, established to flnd both -interim and long-term sites, and a deal with Métro was -made for a short- terni site known as Pi, at Whi- tevale il>icken-g The site wouid have been ready by 1992 when the Brock West site in Pickering is schedu- led te close. The deal was scuttled, howe- ver, when the province said it would take over. And the Pro- vince has teld Durham te build a $10 million waste transfer station at Brock West for use until the long-term site ls open. In April,the province establ. ished the Interim Waste Auth- ority Ltd., composed of 19 staff froin the Ontario public service, tote begin the, seaÎch for three long»term- (20 year) landfll sites,, one hI each- of Durham, Peel and Metro/York Régions. The province' aims te begin Uin the sites'by January, 1996. As'part of the environinental process, the authorityr plans "front-end consultation," that is, commente frein groupe, indivi- duals and agencies early in the process. The authority says it is hoped that local and regonal councils will be among ths providing input. A public consultation meeting (ope n house) will be held on Wdesday, Sept. il at the Cen. tennial Building in Whitby. «I object te having bureaucrate froin Queen7s Park tell us what we are going te do in our niunici- pality,- says Whitby councillor Marcel Brunelle, a member of Durham's waste reduction coin- mittee. He said he believed that repre- sentatives froin Durham ýRegion would be part of the search committee established by the province. «We know absolutely nothing except what they tell us," says Brunelle. "It's too bad. This whole thing has been taken away froin Dur- hamn.» Both he and Wbitby mayor Bob Atersle.>y say the provincial initiative will mean more cost te the taxpayer. «You tallk about duplication," says Attersley about the process begun by the province. eW already went through it,» he says, adding that the pro- vinoe'ssearch ill be- "a bigger Clitical imse» and may go on ou onger thitn expected. The area required in Durham Region for a long-term site, sqae in shape, is 103 hectares (about 254 acres), about the seme size as Pil. For a.rectangu- lar site, th£- area requireientsis ^^ 1990,'& the-re ws tta o for 16.3 per'cent, werer diverted fo landfll through recycling, reduction and reuse. The only figure avilable'for the costof>te search p rocess for ail three sites was for the budget year froin April 1991, te A-1ri 1992, a cost of $17 million. That amount includes $1 million for the Durham site.- The saine amount, $17 million is the expected cost of the overal project for the next budgetyear. There was also no indication as te who would operate the Iong-term dumpsite. TD~FABLEON PG. 27 i ~ LU.~ W ~ :~K.4 [e] [e~ ~ m~ Rosha rises to the occasion 1, t