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June 27, 1992
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NewsFLASH

@ WEATHER

Sunny with a risk of thunder
showers today and Sunday.

@ OUR PEOPLE

The Royal Canadian Legion
has more going for.it than beer,
pool and darts. Why, the local
branch has pride that extends
right into the community it calls
home.

@ WORK PLACE

Theére’s nothing like the sight |.

of a Blue Bird bus hitting the
streets. But before that bus
makes any stops, it makes
sure the men and women be-
hind the wheel have safety on

their minds:
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@ LOCAL SPORTS

Local fastball players and
biathletes will be in the city over
the weekend looking to win
their respective sports at Sun-

page 13

Farside 2
Norman 6
Letters 7
Our People 9
Work Place 12
Local Sports 13
Action Ads 16

investigating.

Can Solberg probably wished he'd stayed in bed after this single:
Bridge. Solberg’s lumber truck entered Highway 3 from Highway

-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon near the Kinnaird
3A, tipped over and slid into the far ditch. Local RCMP are

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News photo by Jonathan Green

RDCK waste plan gets dumped on

li Residents come out to criticize
district over solid waste plan

Neil Rachynski
NEWS REPORTER

Area residents feel they’re about to
get dumped. on.

So they did a little dumping of their
own Wednesday night, slamming the
Regional District of Central Kootenay.

Some 75 people turned out at the
Fireside Inn to berate the RDCK for its
Solid Waste Management Plan.

The question period was confronta-
tional and the discussion often heated,
lead by accusations that the RDCK was
hellbent on turning the Ootischenia
landfill into a central site for garbage
from more Kootenay area cities, such as
Nelson.

Under a provincial directive, the RD-
CK plans to reduce solid waste by 30 per
cent for 1995 and by 50 per cent for the

year 2000.

To do that, the RDCK has tabled five
plans — all of them involving Ootische-
nia. Furthermore, one plan calls for the
closure of seven landfill sites, with the
garbage to be redistributed between Oo-
tischenia, Nakusp, Creston and Salmo.

That plan has some residents and
RDCK director Ken Wyllie on edge,who
says Ootischenia can’t handle the in-
creased truck flow.

“No one from the Ministry of Trans-
portation and Highways has talked to
me about an alternative access road to
the Ootischenia dump,” Wyllie said.

The RDCK is trying to get a plan to-
gether that outlines how solid waste will
be managed in the area for the next 20
years.

Peter Shand of Stanley Associates
Engineering Ltd. — the consultants
hired by the RDCK — said the 20-year
plan didn’t include the expansion of the
Ootischenia landfill site.

That didn’t satisfy Wyllie, though.

He said it would be impossible for him
to support a plan that would see Ootis-
chenia become a central dumping site
for an entire district.

“What happens after 20 years of use?”
Wyllie asked. “I can’t say to my con-
stituents that (expanding the site) is not
a possibility.”

Shand said what makes the Ootis-
chenia site attractive is that it comes the
closest to the government’s new criteria,
such as the type of soils that are on the
site are not as permeable as those on
other landfills.

Despite the public hearing, some res-
idents believed that their criticism ofthe
RDCK’s Solid Waste Management Plan
has fallen on deaf ears.

Some people from the audience felt
the discussion wouldn't have much of an
impact on the RDCK’s final decision.

Lamented resident Doug McLean
“They will do what they want to.”

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