Refuse station supporters urged to speak out

Press, 6 December 1983, Page 5

Refuse station supporters urged to speak out

The "silent majority” of Waimairi District ratepayers should speak out in favour of the northern rubbish transfer station, the Paparua County Council was told yesterday. Cr P. K. Kellar said it seemed that only a small, well organised group of people actually opposed the proposed station. It was a matter of a few people saying, “You can dump your rubbish anywhere, so long as it is not near my place,” he said. There would soon, be no Mjlace to dump riibish in (the large Waimair* catch-

ment. People living there would have to pay a “small fortune” to cart their rubbish to the eastern or western transfer stations.

Cr E. C. Britnell, the County Council’s representative on the Christchurch Metropolitan Refuse Disposal Committee, had earlier outlined a recent meeting of the committee. Its chairman, Mr W. T. Rice, had criticised the scheme and the proposed station.

Cr D. R. Shipley successfully moved that the council reaffirm its support for the three stations. Any vafation on a three-station flpeme

would be considered to be a new scheme and the council would reconsider its participation. Many people in Waimairi did' not realise that the district’s tip would close next year and that they would have to cart their rubbish across town, he said.

Cr Shipley was also concerned about the possible effects that increased traffic from Waimairi, travelling to the western transfer station, would have on county roads.

“A large percentage of Waimairi’s rubbish would come through our county,” he said.