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E Page 37 . Annual 'Town Meeting - Mashpee Monday March 5, 1973 � Article 23 Continued; O'Connell Speaking number of the difficulties in the problem of waste disposal and stated this plan would take us away from the bulldozer to a benefic?..,°,l moue in, the interest of ecology and conservation. This is good land use and management. The State is now talking regionalization. e can a ti.cipate and do it before we are ordered to do it by the State. From the floor: The $70,000.00 needed for the Town DLunp was 4% of the Town Budget. I cannot reconcile 500 tons of Barnstable and Sandwich trash offsetting 4/® of the Town Budget. O 'Connell-' Ihad the wrong figure. 8% interest for eighteen months. The Dump will not serve us for f if thy years. From the floor® About twenty years . Barnstable and Sandwich are growing. The only place left to do this thing seems to be i Mashpee. . O'Connell® You should not see "trash'' you should see "compost" From the Floor: This has never been proven. O'Connell: Yes, it has. From the floor: Why never before in erica? O'Connell® It has® There are places, such as .Johnson City, Florida, eleven countries in Europe , Great Britian has close to thirty-eight plants. Mr. Freeman® Why did we come to Mashpee? We have been. in New England alone to seven communities who would be willing to have us come in. I am a Cape Co der myself. As for the dollar-wise effect on the Town, is it economically feasible to take part' It is. °There :are :chances for job opportunities and employment. It is a good capital investment. You will have a $280,000.00 value coml,'ng back to the Town. each year. Have we investagated other locations? Yes. . . indeed. This location was chosen because there is here a possible fifty year lifetime for such an installation. Your wa,t-er table is suitable. It is nearby your present dump. Some people of the town do want it. Other towns will have to pay, we cannot afford free use of the facilities with the amount of garbage and trash that there will be. In the summer time the amount of trash has such a volume that the solid waste is fantastic. The advantage here is that you are the geographic center.