The issue is the proposed truck parking lot on top of the former Bolender Park Landfill. Dr. Dan and I will be speaking as to why we feel that the parking lot is not in the public interest. The obvious reasons include its' impact on the quality of life of nearby subdivision residents who have lived there for up to half a century. These quality of life issues include noise, diesel fumes and lights after dark.
Other issues are in regards to the safety of nearby park users, trail walkers and again the residents themselves. This site has a fourty year plus history of explosive levels of methane in the sub-surface as a direct result of using the site in the 1960s as a municipal/industrial landfill. The site was also shut down by the Ontario Water Resources Commission around 1969 because it was too close to the Canagagigue Creek and too likely to leak leachate into the creek. There were no leachate controls or methane controls installed prior to opening the site to municipal and industrial wastes. Methane controls came later.
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