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Gilmanton NH News

December 23, 2009

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Attention Gilmanton Residents

Cost Of Trash Disposal Going Up, Up And Away


By Justin Leavitt, Transfer Facility Manager
The cost of disposing of household waste is escalating all over the country.  We here at the Gilmanton Transfer Facility are doing all we can to help offset these costs, but we need your help. Our community needs to work together to reduce our trash. Everything you recycle serves the triple benefit of bringing in income when it is sold; reducing the amount of trash that must be disposed of at a rapidly increasing cost to our taxpayers; and best of all, helping to protect our environment for our children and their children! Here are the facts:


As of January 1, 2010, the tipping fee for Gilmanton’s household waste will be going up from $45.90 to $62.10 a ton. (A tipping fee is the charge levied upon a given quantity of waste received at a waste processing facility.) That is an increase of 35% in just one year, and that figure does not even include hauling fees of $262.00 per haul.


Gilmanton’s average tonnage per year is around 1,450 tons. At the new rate, it will cost us $90,045 in tipping fees plus $40,872 in hauling fees or $130,917 just to dispose of our trash.


With only 18% of our residents recycling, the profit we gain by selling our recyclables does not come close to covering the cost of trash disposal.  At the current price for our paper, plastics and metals, we bring in around $31,000. Here are the prices we got for our recyclables in November:


$40.00 per ton for mixed paper
$87.50 per ton for newspaper
$65.00 per ton for cardboard
$220.00 per ton for #2 plastics
$120.00 per ton for #1 plastics
$70.00 per ton for steel cans
$1,040.00 per ton for aluminum cans
$80.00 per ton for scrap metal


We bring in another $25,000 for the items we charge for, such as electronics, furniture, appliances and tires. So our total income from our operations is $56,000, less than 50% of our cost for trash disposal.


We currently send our trash to Wheelabrator in Concord but they are due to undergo a retrofit in 2018 or the facility will be closed. At that point, our choices would be limited to one of three: Rochester, Berlin or New York. Any one of these choices will undoubtedly be even more costly to the town.


We have tried the voluntary method of recycling, but as we have demonstrated, our mere 18% participation is not offsetting the escalating costs of disposal.  We would need to get our participation up to 72% to offset our trash disposal costs, and that does not seem likely to us.


As with so many surrounding towns, we are faced with some form of mandatory cost containment program, namely either full mandatory recycling or a pay per throw program.


Mandatory recycling would involve close monitoring of what goes into the compactors. Only clear plastic bags would be permitted.  Additional personnel and expansion of the recycling area would be required.

 

Pay Per Throw or Pay Per Bag programs require the purchase of specially marked bags, which are priced to offset the cost of disposal of its contents.  Anything can go into the bags, except for those things that we do not allow now, such as hazardous waste and items we charge for.  This method does not require close monitoring or facility expansion and does tend to increase recycling.  The average family of 4 that recycles only has 1 bag of trash per week.


The writing is on the wall. We must do something. The Board of Selectmen is considering the alternatives for implementation in 2010.

 


 

Rural Carrier Helps Reunite Father And Son After Thirty Years

Rural carrier Carole Kelley was doing what she does every day following policy “if you know where it goes, deliver it”.  In this particular case Carol had no idea it would lead to reuniting a father and son who had not seen one another in thirty years.


Carol received a letter addressed to William Caisse at an address that did not exist. Instead of marking up the letter she delivered it to a customer named William Caisse at a different address marking it with a question mark on the envelope.


Well, not only was the letter for him it was from his son in Australia who was trying to find him. Eric was raised in Australia by his mother who took him there after divorcing William when Eric was three years old. At the time they lived in Lowell, MA.


Eric, with the help of his fiancée Sandy began searching the internet in hopes of finding Eric’s father who he always wanted to meet.  Sandy’s internet search kept coming up with a William Caisse in Gilmanton, NH, and Eric and Sandy decided to start by sending him a letter.


Well, Eric found his father and they started corresponding on a regular basis. Eleven months later they met for the first time in over thirty years. Both father and son were grateful for Carol’s dedication to her job and delivering every piece every day.

 


 

Reading for the Holidays From Gilmanton Corner Public Library


In for some reading during Christmas break from college or just want to relax after the hectic Christmas season? Come by to borrow and curl up with these recently donated 2009 books!!


Mystery buffs can read Vanished by Kat Richardson or Hardball by Sara Paretsky. On the fiction shelf is The Professional by Robert Parker along with science-fiction namely Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman, Frostbitten by Kelly Armstrong and A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks.

 
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