i 5 } i ! } i i i : | 2 % FROM PAGE A1 would add about $2 million a year to Dvistrict’s current annual garbage disposal bill of approximately $250,000. As for what that would mean to the District budget, he says: “We would be looking at somewhere around 10-15 per cent in- crease on the municipal portion of the property taxes.” Translated in terms of an “average” property, he puts the cost at about $50 per residence. Projections by District's Own engineering staff are for the Premier Street dump to be used for another 20 years. Bell is still awaiting a staff report on garbage disposal but seems to have come to several of his own con- clusions already. Among these are the fact that District should never have located a landfill next to Lynn Creek, that land- filling is outdated and en- vironmentally unacceptable, that there are few, if any, sites even available for more landfills in the Greater Vancouver area and that it is inevitable alternative methods of garbage disposal will cost more. Bell has in the past been a staunch defender of the landfill and its continued operation on the grounds that alternatives were economically inconceivable. Now he says his complete change of heart is due to the fact that he had never really even considered the alternatives prior to the time the landfill started becoming such a contentious issue last fall. He says he has since come to the conclusion that if landfills can be justified on any basis at all it is on costs. “Personally, I am prepared to see an increase in garbage disposal costs in order to find a more socially acceptable alternative to garbage disposal. | cannot tell you how much at this time.” PHASE OUT He goes on. “The option has to be given to the public but I am personally in favor of seeing the landfill phased out.” He acknowledges’ what has been stated already by government) environmental agencies - that the landfill could not close overnight and would have to wind down siowly over a penod of about five ycars BIONAIRE 1000 AIR CLEANERNONIZER IMPORTANT BENEFITS " Helps provide oe more com fortabie environment tor you and yous tamity Lessens tension and lathe Reduces stress and mritatillity Retreshes and cleans the att cContinueusly oof poten and polhiante HMelpa orermiwe state fOr S Tobacca snake Promotes a fealing of wat being ARKETING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES STF BOS. KAPILANO 100 100 SOUTH PARK ROYAL WEST VAN @C V7T1A2 (604) 922-7088 Meanwhile, he would like to see ‘Mount Bell’ lowered to a level just above that of the playing fields to the south on the area of reclaimed landfill. “Much of ‘Mount Bell’ would be bulldozed into the area further north which District only recently opened to expand the landfill, tapering the landfill contours down to the bottom of the cemetary hill rather than terracing up to the top of the hill. Even after any such time as alternative garbage disposal facilities were in- troduced, landfilling would still be inevitable on. a limited basis. for the disposal of residue left after incineration and for non- combustibles. Bell is hampered in giving accurate cost projections of switching to incineration because of the lack of in- formation available’ to District. FACT FINDING Recently he checked out incineration § facilities at Duncan with two members of his council, Aldermen Manilyn Baker and Ernie Crist. They found District would need facilities to handle seven to 10 times Duncan's volume of garbage, while even just the Duncan in- cinerator would cost “well over $2 million.” according to Bell. The mayor atso wonders whether such a facility would be adequate to sausfy pollution control standards of the lower mainiand area. This weekend Bell is travelling to Europe for a two-week study of tech- nologically advanced gar- bage facilities already in use in various countries. He will be among the delegates of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) party attending the world congress on_ solid waste and recycling in Berlin which is held every three years. Landfills throughout the GVRD are nearing com- pletion and garbage disposal is becoming a _ lower mainland wide crisis. But Bell considers North Vancouver a_ significantly separate situation, warranting its own delegation to the con- ference. For one thing, if GVRD municipalities decided to combine for incineration facilities, District) would need to know if it would be cheaper to participate and truck ali its garbage to the location of the facility or to set up its own incineration Operation. Bell says of the garbage junket: “I think it is a good expenditure of taxpayers’ money. I don't have any qualms about it and think it would be almost irresponsible to make a decision without the facts as it would be based = on emotion and neither side would feel it had had fair consideration.” Bell hopes that by the time they return the District representatives will be in a position to make an_in- formed recommendation to council. Among the GVRD ants to phase out landfill delegates will be District Engineer John Bremner and Manager Doug Welsh, as well as Mayor Jack Loucks of the neighboring North Van City municipality which also uses the Premier Street landfill for its garbage disposal. Bell will be joined by two fellow council members deliberately picked because of their widely contrasting philosophies and_ political views. He hopes that with Alderman Jim Ball representing the nmght wing and Alderman Ernie Crist of the left, council will be able to base its recommendations on a true cross-section of views before the question of financing incineration might be put to the public by referendum. oo) | Miss Honey Bran “I'm the little Miss Muffin who is as sweet and full of hospitality as you'd want — tasty and full flavoured bran, with the sweet honey baked right in. Imagine me, with a honey coating and butter melting in the middle; what could make a steaming cup of coffee taste any better? 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