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Tony gives
talk on QC Landfill
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The
presentation was the main event of the meeting --- for some reason the Five
year Plan (read Budget) was put off until Monday at 6PM – presumably changes
were to be made tonight in the closed meeting – more later |
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I had not
expected a power point and took wrong camera |
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Good
presentation – here is the outline Intro – site history—Lifespan – phased development
plan --- env monitoring – Progressive closures --- improving operational
efficiencies and conclusions In
short it is going to be expensive – as some of previous phases not ‘capped’
and monitoring etc also let fall behind |
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I will
return to this again tomorrow |
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But
here is a good slide of the present dump site --- located about 150 feet
above sea level – and site has a couple of streams (light blue) that are
monitored for leachate – quick test is for ‘conductivity’ – the triangles are
where tests made |
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The Bad news
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This
is conductivity data going back to 1993 when Greg Fletcher and Don Wilson for
SQCRD and Tony (--) was just starting on his professional engineering career The
conductivity is peaking in summers (red line stream B1 and years 2000-2004) when
not as much water flow—(less rain) ---- but with a little bit of
investigative work the leachate ‘leaks’ were found |
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Things fall
apart |
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Monitoring
fallen off – plus site allowed to deteriorate – lots of litter --- and
turning into a mud hole Probably
the ‘biggest’ mistake was not capping the older phases of the land fill – and
now the 3rd phase is about to need capping too More
on this tomorrow |
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We see
Zellers broke down and bought the expensive form of shopping carts |
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As
I have said before the free carts given to shoppers by Zellers was being
abused and they were showing up all over town as people used them to haul
beer bottles etc to the bottle exchange --- Zellers was reluctant to change
as it was a very expensive affair to get all new carts and put on the coin ‘lock’
---- but looks like they saw no alternative – City owes them a thanks for
going the extra mile --- an expensive one for them at that |
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BC STV talk given at NWCC on
Thursday evening
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I
saw no media there – and not that big of a crowd --- by time photo taken
several had already left I
will write this up tomorrow What is BC-STV, and
why is it so much better than the current system? Andre Carrel has spoken and written extensively on democratic
issues.. You can learn more about
Andre Carrel at http://andrecarrel.com/cms/modules/news/ |
Created by LG on 27/3/2009
Last updated on Saturday, March 28, 2009