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04 | 25 | 2015 VOLUME 20 | ISSUE 17
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Tourist attraction? Region offers tours of Waterloo landfill site on Saturday PAGES 8 & 9
The Waterloo Region landfill site hosts public tours today (April 25) in celebration of Earth Day. The Erb Street location is expected to be full by 2030 and the region is looking at different disposal and diversion options.
Keep focus on contaminants, says CPAC chair
While representatives of neither the company nor the Ministry of the Environment have been attending Chemtura Public Advisory Committee meetings, getting them back at the table is secondary to cleaning up the contaminants that continue to threaten ground and surface water, Dan Holt told councillors meeting April 21. “As we speak, and one
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Committee wants to maintain pressure on Chemtura, MoE to study newly identified problem area on Elmira site
Much of its time and energy focused on the cast of characters, Woolwich council would be better off concentrating on the core issues of contamination on the Chemtura property, says the chair of the environmental watchdog charged with monitoring the Elmira chemical producer.
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day before Earth Day, the Chemtura site is discharging hazardous chemicals to the natural environment via the east-side drainage ditch and into the Canagagigue Creek,” he said of concerns identified in a consultant’s report last fall. That report, he reminded them, prompted the previous group of councillors to pass a resolution calling for quick action from the MoE.
The township asked for a comprehensive analysis of the site’s pollutants within 60 days, with an action plan formulated within the following three months of the investigation. That was in October. Not only was no action taken, there was no response. That’s par for the course, said Holt, noting CPAC CPAC | 6
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