The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks is expressing concerns regarding possible leachate leakage at the Arnprior Waste Disposal Site.
The town’s dump is located in neighbouring McNab-Braeside Township, close to the banks of the Ottawa River.
Deanna Nicholson, Arnprior’s Environmental Engineering Officer, says that because the landfill abuts on property that was historically used in the lumber industry, it is uncertain whether the contaminants detected in two monitoring wells at the landfill are residual to wood chips from earlier milling and processing activity, or from from the dump itself.
Consultant Golder and Associates monitors the Arnprior landfill on an on-going basis, and will take on the Options Assessment job for a fee of just over $12 000.
The MECP has given the Town an end-of-June deadline to bring the landfill back into compliance with Ministry standards for groundwater quality.