Site 41 could be transfer site, says Lawrence

By Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press January 17 2010
PERKINSFIELD – Tiny Township’s deputy mayor told the Site 41 community monitoring committee Thursday he is confident the mothballed property on the 2nd concessions will not become a landfill.
George Lawrence said, however, he “is not discounting the possibility it could become a transfer station, if the county transfer facility on Golf Link Rd. is deemed unusable.”
Lawrence told the committee that he had asked Mark Aitken, Simcoe County’s chief administrative officer, about the likelihood Site 41 might be used for an integrated waste management facility. He said Aitken indicated it wouldn’t make sense from a transportation standpoint, because population growth will be heaviest in the south end of the county.
In an interview afterward, Lawrence said it’s his “hope is that Site 41 goes back to farm land. That’s everybody’s desire, but we have to wait till the county’s waste management steering committee completes its work, there is input from the public and Stantec (the county’s waste strategy consultants) reports.”
He expressed a concern, though, about the county’s decision to call a special workshop for council on Jan. 28. “It’s very soon. The steering committee will have only held three meetings.”