Photo from the Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum
In September of 1973 the town works crews found themselves without any place to dump Carleton Place’s garbage after the owner of the town dump site closed it in a dispute over its operation. Abraham Levine owner of the four-acre site on the 10th line of Beckwith Township blocked access to the dump to show displeasure with the way the town of Carleton Place had been operating it.
The town had been dumping on the site since 1966 for $250 a year, and their contract was not going to run out until 1976. But according to Mayor Eldon Henderson Mr. Levine was unhappy with a decision by the town to leave the dump open 24 hours a day.
Mayor Henderson said Mr. Levine wanted an attendant on duty at all times to see that the garbage was dumped properly. Henderson retorted saying it was impossible to close the dump at certain hours because cottage owners and other persons who brought their garbage to the site merely left it outside the locked gates making extra work for the town crews.
So they stopped hauling garbage in Carleton Place for a day or two trying to make other arrangements to haul it to another site in Huntley township and they were definitely looking for another site to replace the Levine dump for future use.
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