When Did Carp Get A Mountain?

The Waste Management dump in west Ottawa is scheduled to grow unless something is done. The current monstrosity, dubbed the Carp Mountain, is about 1km x 1km and scrapes the sky a whopping 20 stories.

Waste Management is now looking at ways to expand the dump to 2 or even 3 times it’s current size.

The dump is already viewable from the 417 and on a downwind day you can smell it several kilometers away. According to Lowell Green as far east as Terry Fox Drive (2 highway exits over) and as far south as the old Stittsville Fleamarket.

The expectation is that trash would be coming from as far away as Trenton on the outskirts of Toronto. But, apparently, there is also a policy that enables the provincial government to force the dump to take trash from Toronto. With the state of Michigan looking at stopping 600 trucks a day of Toronto trash showing up to unload, this is going to be a problem.

WMI says that the plan is to accept only 10% of trash from outside the Ottawa area, but the ability for McGuinty to jump in and force this, I am on the side of stopping this expansion.

It’s bad enough we wallow in our own trash so close, but to wallow in the trash of others? Why is WMI not gasifying this stuff and turning it into electricity? Why are we not REDUCING the size of the carp mountain with these clean, safe methods of incineration?

For those in the Ottawa area there is something you can do. A march to demonstrate against the expansion is happening on March 1st at 6pm, starting at Sacred Heart in Stittsville. More info here. The last day for the city to accept input from the public is March 17th, so NOW is the time to act.

EMAIL CITY COUNCIL Today!! And tell them you don’t want the dump growing. I made that convenient link so you can send one email to all 21 councillors and the mayor.