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Feature Article April 29

Feature Article April 29, 2004

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Transfer station proposal receives little support

Wilkinson dump debate all but finished

As a group of people who use the Wilkinson Road dump looked on, Central Frontenac Council considered a report from Public Works Manager Bill Nicol concerning the dump at Wilkinson Road. The report stated that the representative from Golder & Associates who attended the public meeting at the Piccadilly Hall earlier this month took back the comments from the meeting to the senior staff at the engineering firm. Further review confirmed the earlier determination that the site was not suitable as a waste disposal site and that attempts to increase the life of the site by expanding its license would be expensive and fruitless.

Golder & Associates also determined that a waste transfer station would cost $6,000 annually to operate. Bill Nicol then pointed out that the $6,000 covers only garbage and not recycling, which would cost about $3,000 per year to run. The capital expenditure for setting up a transfer station was pegged by Nicol at $23,000 for garbage and $20,000 for recycling.

A debate began on a motion to establish a transfer station. Of the seven members of Council in attendance, four expressed their intention to vote against a transfer station, with Councillor Logan Murray saying we are going to have to face the realities of waste management soon, and I think we will end up with only one dump in the township when all is said and done. Councillor Bill Snyder said he thought the matter should be tabled pending budgetary discussions.

Mayor MacDonald said he did not want to table the motion and give people false hope, but Snyder made the motion nonetheless and the matter will be finally determined at the next council meeting.

Adopt a highway The Sharbot Lake Bridge Club has become the third group to come forward and take on a stretch of Road 38 to clean twice a year, agreeing to take off the litter on both sides of the road between Shibley and Ducharme roads. They will join the Sharbot Lake Lions (Causeway south to Shibley) and the Sharbot Mishigama Algonquin First Nation (Causeway north to Hwy. 7)

10-year cost projection for repaving township roads A report by Public Works Manager Bill Nicol outlined the road maintenance, capital (equipment replacement), and construction costs that have taken place since 2001, and projected expenditures until 2010. The projection assumed Council will carry on with programs already underway, and make repairs and single surface coat about 20 km per year of the 120 km of paved township roads; crush and apply 50,000 tonnes of gravel per year to gravel roads; and continue replacing township vehicles as they reach the end of their projected life. The projections allow for 2% annual inflation, and allows for $250,000 per year of construction.

It calls for specific work to be done each year until 2010. Work to be done this year includes surface treating a section of Arden Road, a section of the Frontenac Road from Hwy. 7 to Mill road, the Mill road, the balance of the Crow Lake road, the paved section of the Second Depot Lake Road, and a portion of the Fifth Lake Road (double treatment).

Among other highlights in the projections over the next six years are: the completion of the repaving of the Fifth Lake road by the end of 2006, and work on the Henderson road beginning in 2007. The entire report, with all projected work listed until 2010, is now available on the township website at www.centralfrontenac.com.

Salt Containment Provincial regulations require that all municipalities have action plans in place by the beginning of 2005 to ensure that all salt stored for use on township roads will be contained within closed structures in the near future. Central Frontenac currently does not have structures in place, and the township has been putting money aside for salt containment in recent years. Public Works Manager Nicol put forward two options for salt containment for Councils consideration: Option A would entail upgrading all four township yards at a total cost of $1 million. The report says it will be very difficult to control drainage at the Arden and Wagner Road sites.

Option B would be to restrict winter control operations to two yards, Godfrey and Olden. This would save a half a million dollars in salt containment units, but there would be costs to expand the capacity of the Godfrey and Olden garages. The report will be considered by Council.

With the participation of the Government of Canada