Refuse scheme cost estimate now $8.8M

Press, 23 April 1980, Page 6

Refuse scheme cost estimate now $8.8M

rThe estimated total cost of .1 CHristchurch’u metropolitan 11 refuse disposal scheme is now js.B million. !' |This figure, shown in : the i 1 annual estimates of the < Metropolitan Refuse Disposal ■■ Committee, reflects inflation. 1 since the original estimate!’ sC 57.35 million in August, i! 1978. ) on the schemer Is-set to increase sharply in; iKe present financial year to : rn estimated $2.04 million.: Capital spending and pro-, party purchase for the three i transfer- stations and the Waimairi landfill area will account for $1.98 million of th?;. ' j -The estimated cost of construction work this year on the western transfer station -—which will be the first to open—is $1.52 million. ■Legal and planning fees aqd land purchase costs for the northern transfer station, | which the committee still | wants to be sited on Styx Mill Road, are expected to be $136,000. | ■The estimates include; $17,000 for the cost of desig-. 1

nation and tree lanting at. the Waimairi landfill site. Contributions to the com-] nittee from its six constitutentj local bodies will ri-se 12 per cent over last year. : This source of funding is| estimated at $957,500, of; which the biggest share of $560,135 will come from the Christchurch City Council. Kaiapoi Borough, the smallest member, will fund $16,007. The estimates show in-j terf-;t on the committee’s in-' vestments to be $50,000. Aj statement of assets and; liabilities shows current j assets to be $1.09 million,with fixed asse's $775,185.1 i Funds invested by the com-j ! mittee are available when' required to meet capital works costs. | In his annual report, the chairman (Mr J. M. Mc-i ■ Kenzie) said that the committee could be “reasonably satisfied” with progress on 1 the •icheme over the last year. | The biggest disappoint; ments were the delay in securing land designation for | the northern transfer station ■and lack of provision in local ; government legislation for

.the control and registration lof private rubbish contractors, he said. 1 The proposed opening dates for each part of the ! scheme .were unchanged. The I western transfer station is [set to open in June next year, the northern station in December, 1983, the eastern station in June, 1987, and the landfill site in March, 1986. Mr McKenzie said that the ; Heathcote County Council j tip was being used more jthan forecast and it appeared 1 that it would be full in Deicember, 1983, two years ; earlier than originally pro- ■ posed. 1 However, the Waimairi tip had received less rubbish , than forecast, with the result . that a publicly owned dump J could be in use in the northJwest of Christchurch until . the opening of the northern transfer station. However, Mr D. B. Rich, chairman of Waimairi County, told the committee • not to attach too much significance to the suggestion of a longer life for the Wai- • mairi tip.