At the District Engineering and Public Works meeting held April 23, staff recommended proceeding with a single-source contract with Watermark Environmental Limited to “undertake the remainder of the Chaffey Landfill site characterization and remedial feasibility project.”
“Staff are working very closely with the Ministry of the Environment and Conservation and Parks (MECP) on this particular project in this particular site and do look forward to that work proceeding,” said Renee Recoskie, Director of Waste Management and Environmental Services.
Recoskie said the District has a compliance team and hires a contractor to ensure former waste sites are responsibly managed and monitored. “And to put this in perspective, I thought that it would be helpful to highlight that this work is undertaken across over 40 closed landfill sites and that represents a monitoring network of over 280 groundwater wells, over 80 surface water sampling stations and almost 50 landfill gas sampling locations. So that just helps show every year we monitor at this level of scrutiny and detail across all of our sites.”
She said based on the District monitoring work, remedial projects and options are initiated to address historic waste. As a result, staff are recommending that the single source contract be entered into for remediation options at the former Chaffey Landfill at a cost not to exceed $638,795.
“Through consultation with the MECP, one of the closed landfill sites, the former Chaffey Landfill in Huntsville, requires an accelerated approach to fully assess and evaluate the environmental conditions associated with the site (i.e., groundwater quality, surface water quality, subsurface bedrock profile, etc.) which will be used to design mitigation measures,” according to the report to committee.
Staff were recommending that the contract go to Watermark because the company had already done work on the site and knows the history of what’s been done there, which would help avoid duplication. Committee approved staff’s recommendation.
You can find the staff report HERE.
Major work was also conducted on the site in 2017. The Chaffey Landfill, formerly owned and operated by the Town of Huntsville, ceased operations in 1982. The District took over responsibility for the site in 2014.
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