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1. AGREEMENTS
WITH LAFLÈCHE ENVIRONMENTAL INC AND WASTE SERVICES INC FOR DISPOSAL OF SOLID
WASTE ENTENTES AVEC LAFLÈCHE ENVIRONMENTAL INC. ET WASTE SERVICES INC. POUR L’ÉLIMINATION DES DÉCHETS SOLIDES |
Committee
recommendationS
That Council delegate the authority
to the Deputy City Manager, Public Works and Services to enter into
negotiations and finalize and execute agreements with:
1.
Laflèche
Environmental Inc. regarding the provision of landfilling services of
residential solid waste at their Moose Creek Landfill; and
2.
Waste
Services Inc. regarding the transfer of City of Ottawa residential solid waste
through their Waste Transfer Station located in Ottawa.
RecommandationS du Comité
Que le Conseil accorde au directeur municipal adjoint, Services et Travaux publics, le pouvoir d’entreprendre des négociations en vue de finaliser et de mettre en application des ententes avec :
1.
Laflèche
Environmental Inc. concernant la prestation de services de versage brut de
déchets solides résidentiels à sa décharge de Moose Creek;
2.
Waste
Services Inc. concernant le transfert des déchets solides résidentiels de la
Ville d’Ottawa par son centre de transfert des déchets d’Ottawa.
Documentation
1.
Deputy
City Manager's report Public
Works and Services
dated 16 November 2007 (ACS2007-PWS-UTL-0024).
2.
Extract
of Draft Minutes, 27 November 2007
Report to/Rapport au:
Comité de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement
and Council / et au Conseil
Submitted by/Soumis par : R.G. Hewitt
Deputy City Manager / Directeur
municipal adjoint
Public Works and Services / Services
et Travaux publics
Utility Services Branch / Services publics
(613) 580-2424, 22609, Dixon.Weir@ottawa.ca
That the Planning and Environment Committee recommend Council delegate the authority to the Deputy City Manager, Public Works and Services to enter into negotiations and finalize and execute agreements with:
1.
Laflèche
Environmental Inc. regarding the provision of landfilling services of
residential solid waste at their Moose Creek Landfill; and
2.
Waste
Services Inc. regarding the transfer of City of Ottawa residential solid waste
through their Waste Transfer Station located in Ottawa.
Que le Comité de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement recommande au Conseil d’accorder au directeur municipal adjoint, Services et Travaux publics, le pouvoir d’entreprendre des négociations en vue de finaliser et de mettre en application des ententes avec :
1.
Laflèche
Environmental Inc. concernant la prestation de services de versage brut de
déchets solides résidentiels à sa décharge de Moose Creek;
2.
Waste
Services Inc. concernant le transfert des déchets solides résidentiels de la
Ville d’Ottawa par son centre de transfert des déchets d’Ottawa.
BACKGROUND
As part
of the 2007 Budget, Council approved the export of 30,000 tonnes of residential
waste to the Laflèche Landfill at Moose Creek at a rate of $42 per tonne for an
annual operating budget expense of $1.26M.
A $7 per tonne premium was paid to Waste Services Inc. (WSI) to transport
their share of these wastes to Moose Creek Landfill. The total cost of securing and transporting residential solid
wastes to this site in 2007 was $1.40M.
The
diversion of 30,000 tonnes of residential waste to the Moose Creek Landfill
created an opportunity to accept the equivalent amount of Ottawa’s industrial,
commercial and institutional waste (IC&I) at the Trail Road Landfill. Trail Road’s 2007 tipping fee was $75 for
IC&I waste. By diverting residential
waste to Moose Creek Landfill and replacing it with IC&I wastes, the City
forecast a net revenue of $850,000 for 2007.
Additionally,
in 2007, WSI was issued a Certificate of Approval by the Ministry of the
Environment to build a waste transfer station on Glenfield Drive in the east
end of the City of Ottawa. The transfer
station will be operational in February 2008, and WSI has requested permission,
beginning in 2008, to transfer residential waste collected by WSI through its
transfer station as directed by the City. Staff believe that economic
advantages can be gained by using this facility to handle residential solid
wastes prior to directing them to either the Moose Creek or the Trail Road
Landfills.
DISCUSSION
The
arrangement with Laflèche to receive up to 30,000 tonnes of residential solid
waste has worked well. To continue to
reserve this capacity for a longer term, staff now seek the approval of Council
to negotiate a longer term agreement with Laflèche Environmental Services Inc.
for residential waste disposal at the Moose Creek Landfill site. Laflèche has proposed a rate of $47 per
tonne for 2008. Staff recommends that
this arrangement be negotiated on a committed basis for five (5) years at this
same tonnage, with City options to renew for one year terms for the second
five-year period of the agreement.
The possibility exists that financial
efficiencies can be gained for City collected wastes by directing them through
WSI’s Transfer Station prior to ultimate disposal. However, until such time as the City has undertaken negotiations,
it is not possible to determine whether a service agreement for these wastes
makes economic sense. For this reason,
staff request the authority to enter into negotiation for an agreement with WSI
to direct residential solid wastes through the WSI Transfer Station site for
ultimate disposal.
ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPLICATIONS
The design, operation and maintenance of
non-hazardous landfills is closely monitored and regulated by the Province’s
Ministry of the Environment to avoid adverse environmental impacts.
The use of a Transfer Station is expected to
reduce overall travel time of collection vehicles and the transport of wastes
over longer distances in much more efficient vehicles. This overall reduction
in travel times is in turn expected to reduce the generation of green house
gases.
This
report has no Tax implications.
The 2008
draft Solid Waste Services Operating Budget includes a $1.41M provision for the
Moose Creek Tipping Fee costs, as well as a provision for $2.31M in Trail Road
Landfill Tipping Fee revenues for IC&I waste for this specific agreement.
The 2008
Draft Operating Budget does not include financial allowance for any potential
waste collection efficiencies that may be gained through negotiation with Waste
Management Inc. over the possible use of their Transfer Station. These
potential savings will be identified once negotiations have been completed.
agreements with LaflÈche Environmental inc and waste services inc for disposal of solid waste
ENTENTES
AVEC LaflÈche Environmental inc. et waste services inc. pour L’ÉLIMINATION DES
DÉCHETS SOLIDES
ACS2007-PWS-UTL-0024 City Wide/À l’échelle de la Ville
Written correspondence dated November 23, 2007 from John MacMillan, Ottawa Landfill Watch, was received and is held on file with the City Clerk.
Dixon Weir, Director of Utility Services, accompanied by Anne-Marie Fowler, Manager of Solid Waste Services, responded to questions from Councillor Qadri stating the following:
· The 2003 Integrated Waste Management Master Plan included a number of landfill management options, one of which included investigating where economically reasonable the transfer of waste to area landfills, including the Laflèche site. This report is consistent with the direction previously approved by Council.
· The City is not opening its landfills to garbage from outside the municipality. This is achieved through the Settlement Agreement and its specific limitations on the import of materials.
· With respect to the length of the agreement with Laflèche Environmental Inc. and the amount of tonnage, some flexibility exists in the later years of the agreement to incorporate other solutions that may be in place. The agreement is intended in the first five years to be fixed and allows the City to gain some economic advantages of a longer term deal, while allowing in the later years the flexibility to accommodate changing conditions.
· This agreement and the 30,000 tons maximize the available capacity at the Laflèche Landfill, which has a regulatory limit to both overall capacity and annual acceptance levels.
· The City will be looking into residual management in 2008 to provide the City with a longer-term assessment of all technologies.
It was requested that this matter be considered at Council on November 28, 2007.
That the
Planning and Environment Committee recommend Council delegate the authority to
the Deputy City Manager, Public Works and Services to enter into negotiations
and finalize and execute agreements with:
1.
Laflèche Environmental Inc. regarding the provision of
landfilling services of residential solid waste at their Moose Creek Landfill;
and
2. Waste Services Inc. regarding the transfer of City of Ottawa residential solid waste through their Waste Transfer Station located in Ottawa.
CARRIED