Kincardine waste management proposal outlined at open house
By Liz Dadson
 

Kincardine Town Council

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Local Eenvironmentalist Carol Blake (L) talks to engineer Jim Yardley about the waste management plan
 

A handful of people attended an open house Saturday morning into Kincardine's proposal to turn the Ward 2 landfill site at Armow into the main waste management centre.

Jim Yardley, engineer at Conestoga-Rovers and Associates, outlined the plan to close the Ward 1 site on Valentine Avenue in the former Kincardine by the end of next year and start trucking all the waste to Armow. To do this, Kincardine must have the Ward 2 site properly engineered to maximum capacity.

Yardley explained that this can be done by excavating the new portion of the Armow site, south of the current dump, rather than just heaping garbage on top of the ground. This would extend the lifespan of the site for more than 30 years, up from 10 years, based on a fill rate of 15,000 to 16,000 cubic metres/year. There will be six cells (or stages) in the newly-engineered site, plus a new entrance and weigh scale, just south of the current entrance. Each cell is expected to hold up to five years of garbage, with the first one expected to open in 2011.

A new design feature, said Yardley, is to open one cell at a time and use the excavated material as cover for the current landfill. "The idea is to cover as we go," said Yardley. "And once the cell is covered, we would plant trees on it and put down sod."

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Engineer Jim Yardley of Conestoga-Rovers and Associates, shows a cross-section of the plan for the Ward 2 site

The new plan also includes a proposal to uncap the current Ward 2 site and fill it to capacity before it is rehabilitated permanently, said Yardley.

A leachate collection system would be in place around the new site, with a pumping station so the liquid waste can be trucked to the Kincardine water treatment plant.

Yardley said some of the bush at the back of the site (west side) will have to be removed to allow for a perimeter road around the landfill, but the trees will be kept along the fence line to keep litter from blowing off the site.

Cost for the new landfill at Armow is estimated at $1.24 million, said Yardley. This includes entrance and scale, $260,000; public waste drop-off with recycling and stockpile area, $275,000; household hazardous waste depot, $85,000; reuse store, $50,000; initial cell and maintenance/storage area, $570,000.