Page 12- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 8, 1988 ANN ARBOR ISSUES City seeks solutionN for dump overflow 47 BY MIKE PITTMAN In 1987, the city of Islip, New York floated 3,000 tons of trash on a barge down the East Coast because its garbage dump was reaching ca- pacity. With Ann Arbor's Platt Road landfill nearly full, the city may soon find itself in a similar predica- ment. Ann Arbor's primary landfill currently holds enough trash to fill Michigan Stadium more than 30 times. By early 1989, the landfill will have reached its capacity, said Ray Ayer, administrative assistant at the Ann Arbor Solid Waste Depart- nient. ANN ARBOR won't be sending a barge up Lake Michigan, but it may have to set up a transfer system, sending trash to neighboring cities if solutions recommended by a city task force are not implemented. The city could request an overfill permit from the Michigan Depart- nment of Natural Resources, which Would allow the city to pile garbage on its landfill for one or two more years, Ayer said. But city officials say they are most interested in expanding the primary landfill. This expansion would give the city five to 10 more years of use, according to a city re- port written by Energy Consultant Cynthia Conklin. The landfill would take a few years to construct, still necessitating an overfill permit. C e Crime Continued from Page 11 dicting where criminal behavior, such as sexual assault, is going to happen, the police are no different than you and I. They can follow up, but that doesn't stop crime." "Solving crime is not a law en- forcement question, it's a social THE AASWD has sent a design for the new landfill to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Like most landfills, it was designed to be built on a water table, but it has "a better design than the minimum regulations of the law require; its design is unique," said Synthia Noble, an MDNR waste manager. However, the state department has suggested several changes in the 'Recycling started as a hippie-cool thing and it now is a serious viable option to managing solid waste.' -Ann Arbor Ecology Center representative Jeryl Davis. specifics of the original design; for example, the department proposed to increase the "buffer zone" between the landfill and its surrounding area. Before the state discusses the landfill, City Council will hold pub- lic hearings about the plan. These hearings may be in progress or completed by summer's end, offi- cials said. Conklin said she expects opposi- tion to the landfill - not from envi- ronmental preservation groups, but from private companies who say they can build and maintain it at a lower cost than the city. THE CITY'S Solid Waste Task Force and Solid Waste Department are also promoting the recycling and composting of city waste. The waste department does not favor building an incinerator because it produces toxic gases. Currently, Ann Arbor residents recycle about 10 percent of the solid waste they produce, said Jeryl Davis, recycling education co- ordinator for the Ann Arbor Ecology Center. Last year, Michigan named Ann Arbor the Governmental Re- cycler of the Year, and the city plans on furthering its recycling efforts. For the first time ever, Ann Arbor this year publicly composted some 9,000 cubic yards of leaves. Com- posting is a process of making rich soil by allowing organic material to decompose, Ayer said. BUT LANDFILLS are still necessary, Ayer added, to dispose of trash that can't be recycled, burned, or composted. Conklin said other ways to reduce trash include bans on non-biodegradable packages like styrofoam, similar to a ban approved in Berkeley, Calif. The University has responded to the city's concerns by implementing recycling programs in its housing question," Epton said, adding that President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in the '60s could be a good model for discouraging criminals to- day. "As crimes go up, communities tend to panic, and hire more police." Some councilmembers, though, say Epton and other Democrats' criticisms of the police force are un- founded. "We have a fine police de- partment," said Republican Mayor Gerald Jernigan. "Students can feel more comfortable knowing that there's an officer walking around." JERNIGAN SAID, "More patrols, and more beat officers are beneficial to the town just for the presence and the visibility factor." As rape reports and drug problems go up, burglary is becoming less of an issue, said Ann Arbor Police Det. Jerry Wright. In city residences, the police reported 1,208 cases of theft, down from 1,321 last year. . &r ROBIN LOZNAK/Doily Officials say Ann Arbor's Platt Road landfill will reach capacity by 1990. Even with a new site, the city may have to find another way to dispose of its waste within the next decade. department. Housing Department more effectively deal with the Uni- come exciting," said Ecology Center head George SanFacon will head the versity's trash - which comprises Representative Jeryl Davis. "Re-, Housing Division Waste Manage- about 15 percent of the landfill. cycling started as a hippie-cool thing ment Task Force, expected to in- "THE ACTIONS of the Housing and it now is a serious viable option volve about 15 dormitory residents. Task Force can be a model to be to managing solid waste." Alan Levy, director of West picked up by other paper and waste But to spread recycling, people's Quad residence hall, said the pro- producers in the University," said attitudes may have to change, Ayer gram will be in full swing by Doug Fasinger, a University Hous- said. "We live in a throw-away January, 1989. The program will ing Department director. society, and everyone is into conve- increase recycling in the dorms to The issue of recycling "has be- nience," he said. person making minimum wage just because it provides a place to could not afford the $267 per month live," she said. ~ proposed rent, which doesn't include BUT THE CITY should do more Continued from Page 11 board. to try and help homeless and single- problem." But Mike Dabbs, head of the parent families by helping to stimu- Edgren said she supported the YMCA, said the project is intended late more development, she said. YMCA project but was skeptical of to "meet the needs of the commu- She added that the city needs to the use of city funds for a project nity, and in this community, a pri- improve the state of some current that may not be limited to low-in- mary need is housing. The reality is low-income housing. come residents. that most people staying here are on "Years of neglect from the city "Some feel there should be an in- the lower-wage end of things." has made the public housing de- come eligibility requirement, that Kathy Baldwin, who is active in teriorate," she said. "Public housing' you must be low income to live at helping residents find affordable is just like living anywhere else, but the YMCA," she said. housing and who has herself lived in no one wants to put money into it." MANY YMCA residents are di- low-income housing, agreed that the vorced men or short-term visitors city should limit the number ofAbo looking for a temporary, inexpensive SRO's. 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