PIIKANI NATION

TSAG
2012 Conference
Solid-waste Handling
for Environmental
Protection
Presented By
Randall Wolf Tail – Maintenance Management Officer
Piikani Public works
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Solid Waste
Operation
Objective - to provide a safe controlled
disposal system of solid waste and
recycling through public education and
awareness of environmental protection
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Transfer Station
100% pick-up service with a transfer
station has made landfill site a thing of
the past, No longer in the Landfill
business
Recycling program has decreased the
total waste transferred our regional
landfill
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Landfill decommissioned - 2005
Post-closure care plan
Surveyed elevation benchmarks, ongoing
maintenance plan of the final cover, with
surface drainage canals for runoff
Operating the groundwater monitoring wells
for leakage, leach-ate & traces of any
abnormal gases
Secured area with a site emergency plan
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Public and Operating Safety
Our transfer site has an operations plan
intended to;
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Create and maintain a positive public image
Encourage communication with the public
Enforced litter control on site
Prevents vandalism, abuse and fires on site
Control odors by a weekly BFI pickup
Reduced the potential for animal predators on site
Managed controlled burning (require a permit - 911)
No construction waste accepted (regional landfill)
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Site Layout
Transfer Station Storage Area
White Metal Clean-up
Tire Recycle Program
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TSAG Household Hazardous
Waste Roundup
3000L of Paint
3.761 tonnes of E- waste
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Community Awareness
• Radio station and local newspapers ran
information ads
• Posters and flyers were distributed to the
community
• Overall positive response and impact to
our community’s environment can not be
measure
• Plans are being formulated for an annual
event
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Our kids are already helping…
• Thanks to the school kids and teachers
who really make a difference……
• Thanks to the kids that go home and teach
their parents……
• Thanks to the parents who accept this
type of operation and teach their
neighbors……
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Storm water
Surface water runoff has created a
system of natural wet land formations
in the area
Town site storm water surface flows
discharge into these wet land
formations and is filtered before
reaching the Oldman River
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Area Development
How storm water, waste-water & solid
waste is handled by neighboring
communities up stream of each other
helps long range planning
This helps in design and investment
planning for supplying safe water
systems
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Water Shed Protection
Partnership with local stewardship
groups
• Oldman Watershed Council – sit
on the advisory board
• Pincher Creek area Watershed
Groups
• Cows and Fish (report on local
creeks)
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We realize that down stream there is
huge investment to deliver quality
potable water to the end user
We want to do our share to protect their
water source and investments
We are all neighbors to each other
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To provide a life line for downstream
users we have to
“cast a positive shadow”
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Questions - Comments
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