Sludge Watch ==> Ontario Gov't needs to act to remove sludge berm

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

For years Harvey (Skip) Ambrose has been taking Atlantic Packaging paper 
sludge and trucking hundreds of truckloads of sludge on properties dotted 
around Ontario. He got around waste legislation by declaring that the 
decomposing mass was either a 'gun berm' or some kind of 'fertilizer' even 
though it has far to much E.coli to meet Canadian fertilizer requirements.

Then Abitibi Thorold wanted to get into the same waste disposal 
game...figuring they too could get cheap waste disposal by contracting with 
Lyle and David Brenzil of 'Empire Agri-Services' of Canfield Ontario.

When I met with the Abitibi Mill Manager I told him to stop sending out the 
sludge outside waste management permits.  I explained about the leachate, 
the water contamination, and the poor reputation of his hauler.  The Brenzil 
boys lost their waste hauling licence, so now they haul paper sludge but say 
it isn't waste anymore.  They say its an input into a 'product'.

Abitibi is now mired in a huge collapsing sludge berm that was said to be 
built as a soundberm to protect hothouse cucumbers from the sound of the 
railway trains.

Does this make sense to you?

Abitibi has now hire Terratec (yep, the sewage sludge hauler) to pump up the 
stinky leahate that is bubbling methane around the putrescing berm .  The 
Ministry of the Environment has issued an order.  About time, too.


Has the Liberal Government finally made a New Year's resolution to manage 
sludge under waste permits?  That's what the Expert Panel they created told 
them to do.

2007 is a good year to stop the sludge mountains.


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www.wellandtribune.ca

Thursday, January 25, 2007 -
Welland Tribune

Government should act now:
Desnoyers; Stormwater culvert by woodlawn road bridge will be repaired


Local News - The MOE ordered the following actions at 325 Church Street in 
Fenwick:

- regrading and building up of a containment berm along the railroad tracks 
at the east side of the property and the south side of the property to 
prevent surface water from migrating offsite;

- repairing the containment berm by adding and compacting clay;

- pumping water from the onsite collection pond to be disposed of at an 
approved treatment works;

- fill the collection pond with onsite clay to prevent surface water from 
leaving the site;

- raise a containment berm along the nearby railroad tracks;

- building a swale between the berm and the railroad tracks to allow water 
to flow from the east side of the site to flow to the main collection pond;

- reprofiling of an existing swale along the west side of the berm so water 
from it flows to the main collection pond;

- continuation of the withdrawal of surface water to discharge at an offsite 
location.