A leachate treatment facility at the Merrick Landfill Site will finally be built.
On Monday night at North Bay City Council, the Chair of Engineering, Public Works and Environmental Services, Tanya Vrebosch responded to a report dated March 15, 2016 on the Leachate Treatment Facility at the Merrick Landfill Site.
The reports says a Certificate of Approval was amended in 2004, for on-site treatment of landfill leachate collected from lined cells 5 to 10 and impacted groundwater.
The report recommended that W.S. Morgan Construction Ltd. of Parry Sound be awarded the construction project for $4,251,395 (plus HST). Council approved the recommendation to the low bidder.
North Bay’s Director of Engineering says the project will take about one year to construct, so it should be operational by end of April 2017.
Technical details from the report say the treatment plant will be a, “dual train aerobic/anoxic treatment configuration contained in a two-level treatment building with a greenhouse-type and metal-clad structure. The building will include a secondary clarifier, chemical feed system, aeration tank, blowers, return pumps and administration area.”
Vrebosch told Council that the tender bids for the design work on the facility came in higher than expected. “The tenders for the most part are in line and fairly reasonable.
"When we originally had the landfill approved for natural attenuation, that's not enough anymore. Regulations have tightened up. The attenuation is just not doing the job anymore that’s required.”
Vrebosch reminded citizens that this is 100% city paid with no government grants available.
On March 9, 2012, Council authorized that the Landfill Site Merrick, Leachate Management Project be approved at the cost of $1,700,000.
About 45,000 tonnes of garbage gets land filled at the site every year.
