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TOWN OF NEWCASTLE
REPORT File # 6 -'213
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MEETING: THE GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
DATE: JUNE 2, 1986.
REPORT #: WD -48 -86 FILE #:
REFUSE BIN AT THE BOWMANVILLE WORKS YARD
RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is respectfully recommended:
1. That this report be received.
2. That placement of a refuse bin at the Bowmanville Works Yard not be
considered.
REPORT:
On April 7, 1986, the General Purpose and Administration Committee passed
Resolution #GPA- 336 -86, which requested "that the Director of Public Works
prepare a report on the feasibility of putting a garbage bin in the
Bowmanville Works Yard ".
While investigating the feasibility of such a service, the writer received
much negative input from Town staff that have been involved on two previous
occasions in Bowmanville, from Region of Durham staff who operate two
transfer stations at closed landfill sites (i.e. Ritson Road in Oshawa and
Cartwrights south of Blackstock), and from Town of Whitby staff who as
recently as 1981 closed a transfer station south of Brooklin due to the
operation being uncontrollable.
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In each instance, the recommendation was to not offer the service for three
basic reasons:
i) the service is presently available to some degree at the Darlington
landfill site;
ii) the maintenance problems are always horrendous at such facilities;
iii) the cost of the operation is high.
The cost of providing such a service is nearly impossible to predict since,
as word spreads of the availability of such a facility, cottagers, small
contractors, roofing contractors, etc., to name just a few, would start
visiting the site as they did at the Whitby operated facility just south of
Brooklin. The operation there began as a convenience to local taxpayers
with two bins and soon grew to seven or eight bins. Staff monitored licence
plate numbers several times prior to its closing and found a good percentage
of users were out- of- towners. It was also noted that once the operation is
started if bins are full, the refuse is thrown beside the bins and, if the
gate is closed, the refuse is thrown at the gate.
One further concern and possible abuse is the facility being used to dispose
of toxic wastes.
It is for all these reasons that it is recommended that the possibility of a
refuse bin being placed at the Bowmanville Works Yard not be entertained.
Unfortunately, for those responsible citizens, it appears that all have to
suffer because of the actions of the irresponsible.
Respectfully submitted,
J,r
Gordon J. Ough, P. Eng.,
Director of Public Works.
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May 28, 1986.
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