Sludge Watch ==> Guelph sludge continues to go to landfill now owned by Toronto

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

Guelph is landfilling its sludge but the landfill is now owned by Toronto.
Toronto...kicked out of the Republic Services landfill by the Depart of 
Environmental Quality of Michigan...has been trucking the stinky stuff to 
Southgate in Dufferin County where ...just 30 miles from Walkerton...they 
have been putting sewage wastes on the same dangerous crack karst topography 
that led to so many deaths in Walkerton.

And Toronto won't say what landfills its sludge is going to in the winter.  
They were trucking into Ohio last time I looked.  Why the secrecy? Could it 
be the class action lawsuit against Toronto sludge?  Or the stench and 
pathogen regrowth?

see:

http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-whm-enf-swp-96cfl.doc
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City OKs Landfill Deal

News
Nov 23, 2007


The city will be able to truck its solid waste to a St. Thomas landfill for 
at least a few more years in spite of the landfill's purchase by the City of 
Toronto.

A deal set to be signed in December, which got Guelph city council approval 
Monday, won't affect the price that Guelph has been paying to have Green 
Lane Landfill take its solid waste.

The city's contract with Green Lane, which started in 2003 after Guelph's 
Eastview landfill was closed, runs to 2008 with a series of five one-year 
options to follow at the city's sole discretion. The city keeps this right, 
but staff plan to negotiate with Toronto in coming months to see if a 
long-term deal can be reached without the need to exercise these one-year 
options, a staff report says.

The agreement set to be signed next month, after the wording is finalized, 
also gives Guelph an extension of its right to send its sewage sludge to the 
landfill in St. Thomas, but at "updated prices," the report says. Without 
this extension, which will last as long as the disposal deal for the city's 
solid waste, the city's right to send sewage sludge there would expire in 
mid-January.

The city is working on "beneficial reuse" of sewer sludge through land 
application, but the deal would provide a backup disposal site "as a 
contingency for times when land application is not feasible," the report 
says.

The higher price for disposal of sewage sludge at the landfill is expected 
to have a $425,000 impact on the city's 2008 user-pay budget, which might 
cause a 4.8 per cent increase in the city's wastewater rate. However, other 
funding options will also be considered, the report said.

Toronto is interested in generating revenue from the St. Thomas landfill 
while its waste continues to be disposed of in Michigan under the terms of 
an existing long-term agreement, it said.

http://www.guelphtribune.ca/news/article/107417