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Stoney Creek dump expansion eyes even bigger volume
(Stoney Creek News, Richard Leitner, Apr 27 2017)

The proposed expansion of the Taro industrial dump just got potentially bigger.

A city review of six new options put forward by owner Terrapure Environmental in February concludes three of them will increase the upper Stoney Creek site’s overall capacity to 12 million cubic metres by keeping an area for clean fill as is.

That’s up from 10 million in two original options last summer that sought to put waste in the clean-fill area, created when former owner Newalta Corp. got approval in 2013 to raise the site’s height by a third in return for shrinking its waste footprint.

Taro’s existing waste limit is 6.32 million cubic metres and the other three options are consistent with the original ones, earmarking the clean-fill area’s estimated two million cubic metres of capacity for waste.

Doug Conley, the area’s councillor, said Terrapure’s proposals to both keep the clean-fill area and boost the dump’s waste capacity came as “a complete surprise,” especially since the company has repeatedly insisted there’s no market for clean fill.

He said he’s worried the company will use the same argument to place waste in the clean-fill area by Green Mountain Road if it gets approval for an overall capacity of 12 million cubic metres.


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