- Date
- 1990-01-15
- Kind
- Meeting
- Where
- Township of Peaine
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- governanceenvironment
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On January 15, 1990, a special meeting at Peaine Township Hall discussed the future of the Beaver Island Waste Management Program. The January 26 Beaver Beacon said the existing dump had been out of compliance for 11 years and would have to be closed, with a licensed landfill or transfer station presented as the options.
The article reported that Beaver Island had submitted a state-funding application by the December 28, 1989 deadline. It described a proposed drive-through transfer-station building, bag fees for solid waste, shipment of filled containers to a licensed mainland landfill, and separate no-fee containers for newspaper, cardboard, separated glass, ferrous cans, office paper, used motor oil, plastic, and aluminum.
Evidence and limits
This is a source-bounded report of a meeting, application, and proposed system. The article gives estimated costs and anticipated review, award, construction, and operating timelines; it does not establish that the application was approved, that funds were awarded, that the dump was closed, or that the transfer station was constructed or operated as described.
The record is related to later dump-road and transfer-station records, but it does not establish that those later actions were carried out by the same body or under the same program.
Open questions
- Was the state-funding application approved, and what award terms followed?
- When and how was the existing dump closed?
- Was the proposed transfer station built and operated according to this plan?
Sources
- Remote OCR used for search and transcription support; it is not an independent witness and is read against the held issue PDF. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1990-01_Beaver-Beacon
- Held issue PDF, visually checked against pages 1–2. Reports the January 15 special meeting, the existing dump’s stated 11-year noncompliance, a submitted state-funding application, and proposed transfer-station and recycling procedures. It does not establish application approval, funding award, dump closure, construction, completion, or later operations. The held twenty-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and does not expand source-specific claimsdata1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1990-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island waste-management program special meeting and transfer-station plan, 1990”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-waste-management-transfer-station-plan-1990/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 26, 1990, “Beaver Island Waste Management Program,” OCR derivative, pp. 1–2. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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