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A $200,000 performance -bond and three major ope. rating conditions have been tied to approval of a 20- acre landfill site in the Town of Vaughan. That approval became of- ficial last week courtesy of Environment Minister Wil- liam Newman. His decision to accept the recommendation fromr his Disposal Services Win Despite MAD Environmental Hearing Board represents a major defeat for 500 Maple Against Dumping (M.A.D.) ratepayers who have been battling since 1973 to pre- vent Disposal Services from using the site. A certificate of approval has been issued for the landfill site located on the west half of Lot 26, Comes- The application, submit- ted on November 22, 1973 to the Ministry of the En- vironment, was the subject of considerable public con- troversy in the environmen- tal hearing held at Maple this past March. A number of concerns, expressed during the board sion 11, in the Town of Vaughan. Presents the. . . “llITlE MflPPHS” FASHIBN SHOW THIS WEEKEND! hearings, were subsequently dealt with at some length by the Ministry of the En- vironment during its over- all analyses of the use of this site by the applicant. Said Mr. Newman: “The certificate of appro- val has been issued with a number‘ of conditions to en- sure that the landfilling operation is carried out Among other things the conditions require that: â€" The operating period be limited to the normal work- ing hours of 8 am to 6 pm during the weekdays and limited from 8 am to 1 pm on Saturdays. â€" On-going monitoring and reporting on the ground- water quaiity and the ope- rations be undertaken and periodic reports by an inde- pendent engineering firm without any adverse envi- ronmental effects.” your family shopping centre at YONGE and LEVENDALE, RICHMOND HILL on the same be submitted to the Ministry. â€" The site be operated in strict compliance with an approved development plan. -â€" A performance bond in the amount of $200,000 be deposited by the applicant to guarantee that funds will be available to correct any damage to the environment resulting from improper operatiom of the site by the applicant. It was last June that M.A.~D Spokmnan Tom Connolly protested vigorously the en- vironmental hearing board’s recommendation to have the certificate of approval is- sued to allow the dumping on the 20-acre site. Mr. Connolly was un- happy- that the recommend- ations of the board under Chairman David Caverley accepted almost in total the evidence submitted by Dis- posal and rejected most of that by the municipality and its ratepayers. “We cant buy this at all," he told “The Liberal" at the time. “The board is simply treating this 20 acre site as a continuation of what is al- ready going on. This isn’t a continuation, it’s a begin- ning which will turn Maple into the world’s largest grab- age dump â€" a dump larger than the village itself." Connolly was referring to an 'ach'acent 900 acre site, also owned by Disposal Ser-‘ vices. which is earmarked for the handling of 60 mil- Mr. Connolly added that “we simva do not believe that the Disposal Co. will be able to, or ever In- tends to, fulfill all the conditions laid down by the board. Concerns of M.A.D. in- clude heavy truck traffic. noise, social disruptions, and pellution of the water table. “This decision simply paves the wear for what's yet to come." said Connolly. lion tons 0f Metro‘s garb- age over the next 30 years.