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SOURCE: Vancouver Sun
 

Jan 30/08: Delta Wants Say On Delta Landfill ...

Delta is telling Metro Vancouver not to assume the municipality will accept a new garbage deal for the Vancouver Landfill.

"The message is we have a contract that's legally binding and council has to concur with the proposal," said Delta chief administrative officer George Harvie.

Last Friday, the Metro Vancouver board voted in favour of a recommendation that would make the landfill in Delta's Burns Bog, in addition to one in Washington state, become the primary regional disposal sites until waste-to-energy incinerators can be built. If approved, an additional 350,000 tonnes of garbage would be added annually to the Vancouver Landfill.


Metro's plan came about after the regional district gave up trying to develop a landfill on a ranch it owned in Ashcroft. Natives there resisted the idea, which had been in the works more than a decade.

Because the regional district's other main landfill site in Cache Creek is about to reach capacity and close by 2010, it has left regional officials scrambling to find an alternative.

Delta Coun. George Hawksworth said he only learned about the new plan from what he read in the newspapers. He said the proper procedure would have been to consult Delta and the City of Vancouver, which operates the landfill, first.

He said Delta has no information, including how many more garbage trucks would be headed there as well as the other waste disposal options.

"I want assurances Delta is back in the picture," Hawksworth said. "Delta citizens should have some say in the matter."

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