A4 - Friday, April 6, 1984 - North Shore News Which is, of course, not too surprising. A dump 1s a dump 1s a dump. In 1982 the District of North Vancouver pleaded guilty to seven counts of violating its waste manage- ment permit. Conversion of the site into playing fields, begun in the early 1970s, ran briefly afoul of its own past when methane gas was releas- ed as tennis-nef posts were being tapped into the ground. That particular problem was ingeniously solved last August when the methane was used to heat water for ““..we really don’t take alternate energy too seriously. ”’ athlete’s showers in a nearby fieldhouse The Premier Street site has a couple of features going tor GET A START ON SUMMER! strictly personal by Bob Hunter weetening the dump HE PREMIER STREET LANDFILL site near Lynn Valley has been under attack on and off by neighbors along Lynn Creek because the place is infested with rats and flies. it which really can’t be knocked. North Shore residents get to use it for free, thanks to a commercial Salvaging contract which generates $1 million a year. No other landfill on = the Lower Mainland operates quite this way. However, it remains that there is a constant danger of Lynn Creek being polluted. Foul smetls, noise and eyesore go with the turf. By next September, Keith Henry, the chap who chaired the B.C. Unuhtes Commis- sion invesugation into the building of Hydro’s Site C dam, will hand the provincial government his report into sohd-waste disposal in the Lower Marnland Here’s an idea which could undoubtably be apphed anywhere, but might make particular sense for the North Shore. It has been tried un Charlottetown, Prince Ed- ward Istand, with spectacular results. It involves an energy-from- waste plant that has already saved $1 millon in onl bills that would have had to be paid to heat the city’s main hospital This is one of those all-too-rare cases of an in- novative alternate energy plan actually being carried out in Canada For a country that claims the North Pole in its back yard, we really don’t take alternate energy very serious ly We should And the Charlottetown project is par Deulanly worth examining “he NOW OPEN Municipal garbage is burn- ed in three large incinerators to heat water in a huge boiler. The steam created by the ~ boiler is then used to heat the hospital, while some of the water is used for washing dishes and sterilizing medical instruments. During the year it has been running, the plant has been so successful that municipal garbage supplies have been unable to keep up with de- mand. As a result, waste wood is also being used to generate steam. Garbage, you say? Honest- ly, I'm not wating your time. O YOU WA STOP SMOKING? 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