{"id":6382,"date":"2024-01-10T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T18:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2024-06-19T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:05:00","slug":"time-to-fix-garbage-problem-in-molega-labelle-areas-queens-councillors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/01\/10\/time-to-fix-garbage-problem-in-molega-labelle-areas-queens-councillors-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to fix garbage problem in Molega, Labelle areas, Queens councillors say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Submitted)<\/p><\/div>\n

By Rick Conrad<\/strong><\/p>\n

Region of Queens councillors want a long-term fix to garbage pileups in Queens County cottage country.<\/span><\/p>\n

District 6 Coun. David Brown says it\u2019s a huge problem. He asked staff for recommendations on how to resolve it.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said the 40 so-called \u201cgrey box\u201d sites on private roads throughout the county consume half of the region\u2019s garbage collection budget. Brown said the problem is more pronounced this time of year because the region picks up the garbage once a week, compared to three times a week in summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur population has outgrown the garbage box system,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve Band-Aided the system together and done a great job. But we\u2019re victims of our own success by having a very popular area that people want to come to. We have a lot of people coming with garbage.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not completely a region problem, it\u2019s a people problem. \u2026 There are people that are just too lazy to put the garbage in the boxes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Brown said some people truck in waste from other places when they arrive at their properties for the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said the municipality doesn\u2019t have the staff resources to police these areas. And while they\u2019ve posted cameras, the problem persists.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need staff to look at this and come back with possible solutions for a long-term fix for this,\u201d he told councillors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Garbage piled up at one of the ‘grey box’ sites in Queens County. (Submitted)<\/p><\/div>\n

Mayor Darlene Norman said the Molega Lake and Labelle areas have had the region’s highest housing growth of both full-time and seasonal residents.<\/span><\/p>\n

And those properties represent a large chunk of tax revenue for the municipality. But they tend to be on private roads, so garbage collection is only at designated places on public roads.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a huge problem. And people in Labelle and Molega area, some people are paying $10,000 property tax out there for no services. It is an issue that has to be dealt with.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She acknowledges it may cost the municipality more, but she said cottage owners and homeowners in those areas deserve better.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/garbagebox.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rick Conrad Region of Queens councillors want a long-term fix to garbage pileups in Queens County cottage country. District 6 Coun. David Brown says it\u2019s a huge problem. He asked staff for recommendations on how to resolve it. He said the 40 so-called \u201cgrey box\u201d sites on private roads throughout the county consume half […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[79,793,1579,1441,993,24],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-darlene-norman","tag-david-brown","tag-garbage-collection","tag-labelle","tag-molega-lake","tag-region-of-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7504,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}