There is evidence that leachate is migrating off-site from the Richmond Landfill Site and causing off-site groundwater impacts.

Due to the fractured limestone on which it is located, determining the extent of the leak, and containing the contamination, is extremely difficult.

Neighbours, including residents of: The Town of Greater Napanee, Tyendinaga Township, Deseronto, and the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, fear the impacts this will have on the aquifers that supply their drinking water.

In spite of this Waste Management is proposing to locate a new dump beside the old one that is four times its size (400,000 Tonnes/year). They have rebranded the dump as ‘The Beechwood Road Environmental Centre’.

Many volunteers have donated their time and expertise in this battle. We have a formidable legal team from the Canadian Environmental Law Association and we have retained the best technical experts to help us understand the complex scientific implications of this landfill.  This is an expensive fight.

With their help we have successfully appealed to the Environmental Review Tribunal to strengthen the scrutiny and management of the closed site.

You have the opportunity to help us. We are conducting a raffle to raise the money we need to pay for the experts.

To sell tickets please contact Cheryl Furlong at cherylfurlong07@aol.com

Click Here for details on where to Buy Your Ticket.

Mike Bossio

Chair, Concerned Citizens

CANCELLED

Citizens are encouraged to attend the Second Environmental Review Tribunal Preliminary Hearing at 10:00am on Tuesday Sept. 11, 2012 at the Strathcona Paper Centre, 16 McPherson Drive, in Greater Napanee Ontario. The Concerned Citizens have been granted leave to appeal certain conditions contained in the site licence for the massive Richmond Landfill. In granting leave the tribunal recently agreed with the citizens that the conditions appeared to be unreasonable and insufficiently protective of the environment.  This will be the second preliminary hearing by the Tribunal of this matter.

If you experience smells, noise, dust, water problems, or see anything that could impact the environment in any way please follow these steps:

(Note: When you call make sure you state clearly that this is a complaint and make a note of the date and time and name of the person you speak with. Give the details of the situation and ask them to respond to you in by phone, email (if you have it) and in writing about what action has been taken to resolve the problem.)

1) Call Waste Management: Contact Linda Cooper at (613) 388-1057 or email her at lcooper1@wm.com (if Linda is not available please ask who is handling complaints)

2) Call the Ontario Ministry of the Environment: (613) 549-4000 or 1 (800) 267-0974 and ask for Dave Arnott at extension 2693 (If Dave  is not available please ask who is handling complaints)

3) State and make a note of: The time, date and specific nature of the problem, who you talk to and their comments. Request that they get back to you verbally and in writing as soon as the problem is resolved with details on  the action taken. Make sure you are satisfied.

4) Inform Marilyn Whalen at: (613) 396-2696 or email at Marilyn_c1@hotmail.com. Please provide all of the details so that Marilyn can keep a log of complaints and their resolution.

5) Record the time, date and details of the resolution, when you get a response from WM or the MOE.

6) Inform Marilyn Whalen at: (613) 396-2696 or email at Marilyn_c1@hotmail.com about the resolution, and save a copy of the written reply.

‘The Tribunal finds that the landfill either is currently producing or could in the future produce significant harm to the environment’ (Environmental Review Tribunal’s reason for granting appeal to citizens, 2012)

We need to protect our land and water.

This is the right time to show your support.

First Public Hearing:
Monday, June 25, 10:00 a.m.
Selby Hall, 114 Pleasant Dr., Selby Ontario