By Natalie Geddes

Dumping fees for flood victims waved at Weyburn landfill

Jun 29, 2011 | 6:54 AM

Nowhere is the damage in Weyburn more obvious than at the city landfill.

Vehicle after vehicle arrives, loaded down with soggy furniture and bits of walls and insulation.

Management at the landfill say about 90 vehicles per day are making their way to the trash heap. That’s three times the usual amount.

Since the flood, dumping fees have been waved for those dropping off the spoils of the disaster. Landfill manager Connor Rodine says you don’t need to ask who the flood victims are.

“You know by the furniture they’re bringing in, or when water spills out along with them”.

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Tim McDonald arrived with his family in the late afternoon on Tuesday with their second load of the day.

“We’re just tired of the dampness and the smell of it,” he says.

“We’re looking forward to when this is all over”.

His basement got maybe four inches of rain the weekend. Many others in the city went through the same thing. It wasn’t much but it seeped into everything and promised days of clean up and trips to the landfill.

There are also losses of sentimental value. Tim says the family was forced to dump some antique encyclopedias that were passed down through his wife’s family.

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