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“It is not a Dump; it is a Landfill”

City manager Gordon Cox says the words with feeling, as only a person who has spent much of last couple years trying to understand and ‘manipulate’ the garbage to maximize Prince Rupert’s investment

  Water still runs down hill, you see those roads running down the middle of the landfill?

They were blocking the drainage plus the water to the right was not getting into the drain that led to filtering and lagoon. The road had to go”

Gordon seems proud of making the land fill work. A final report will be given to Council soon

The leachate from the landfill takes the Pink path to the leachate pond --- until clear enough to go back into the environment	“Buying the property next to the original landfill (1) and starting up a “recycling” area (2) was the critical move. We are now able to divert more than 35% to the second site—things like sphagnum moss or concrete, things that take up space but only screw up the mechanics of the landfill where compaction and airspaces etc are critical”

	How long will the landfill last till it is full?
	Part of Gordon’s work has to extend Phase 1 well beyond what it was thought possible a few years ago. Part of it is the economy— you have an accurate indicator of the town’s economy, prosperity by what you see going into the dump (er--landfill). Things in Rupert have been slow so we got a couple more years out of Phase 1 Right now I figure 62+ years and that is for a population of 17,000.

Composed Monday, June 24, 2002

Last modified 6/24/02 10:37 PM