BWG claims it’s owed $18M in dump compensation

By Elsie MacLaren WaterWatch
There was a motion put forth by Deputy Mayor Dennis Roughley at the December 1 Bradford West Gwillimbury council meeting stating that whereas in 1990 Simcoe County agreed to purchase and be responsible for County area Municipalities’ landfill sites and transfer stations and that BWG is a municipality that hasn’t been fully compensated, that the Simcoe County Waste Management strategy steering committee include in its deliberations a review and strategy to compensate BWG and other areas for the $18 million owing of the $27 million agreed to. This might explain White and Roughley’s pro-Dump Site 41 stance.
On Tuesday (December 9) there was a long presentation about a “Holland Marsh Agricultural Impact Study.” Councillors agreed that no use for the Holland Marsh in BWG should ever be put in place other than farming.