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Folks, here's my latest trick ... from now on i'll try to bundle together
messages on the same topic. [When will this mad innovation end?] ;)
Please reply to the originator ... not the messenger :)
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:50:27 -0300
From: Colin Stewart <cstewart@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: John/Karen Pearce <jk.pearce@ns.sympatico.ca>
cc: sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Transport of Gypsum from Medford, Cape Breton Mine]
Hi John, and others
I'm trying to recall numbers on the numbers of trucks per day from the
Assessment. I don't think it was stated directly, but I think it's
getting multiplied up as it is discussed.
Seems to me the 500 was based on 250 each way - so cutting the 3 minute
interval to 1.5 is double counting.
My recollection from somewhere was 20 full time drivers, with an estimated
round trip time of 100 minutes. Using this I get 4 trips a day (or 5 if
you can do 10 hour days year in and out.) So perhaps 100 trips per day.
This could perhaps be checked by multiplying tonage by expected
production?
I'm not trying to minimize the problem, just make sure that it's
accurately stated. If 500 loads is correct, fine, if not, than let's use
the right numbers.
A highway overpass could be quite disruptive because of the grades (that
is, the amount of terrain disturbed in the incline on the east side). It
might be more reasonable to run a conveyor under the TCH and load on the
east side. But in that regard I note that this might entail the land that
they're slated to 'contribute' to the province.
The other big if on a railway spur is land ownership. The provincial map
book shows it as all private, so you'd be into expropriation for at least
some of it. (Plus environmental assessments, etc.)
Colin
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:28:02 -0700
From: "WAA" <waa@fox.nstn.ca>
To: "John/Karen Pearce" <jk.pearce@ns.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Transport of Gypsum from Medford, Cape Breton Mine]
John Pearce:
I am working with Georgia-Pacific on the Melford Project. I note in your
letter of reference to 500 trucks a day. The correct number is a maximum of
200 per day. Please call 492-0008.
Peter Dwyer
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:48:43 -0700
From: John/Karen Pearce <jk.pearce@ns.sympatico.ca>
To: sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca
CC: Colin Stewart <cstewart@chebucto.ns.ca>
Subject: Trucking Melford Gypsum in Cape Breton
This morning I spoke with Peter Dwyer of William Alexander & Associates,
Consultants who are working with Georgia Pacific on the Melford Mine
Development. He gave me the following information:
The Sugar Camp mine, 10 miles from Port Hawkesbury, is currently
producing at the rate of 1.7 million tons/year. It is being served by 180
truck trips daily on a less travelled road for the 10 miles to Point
Tupper. The main reason trucking was used in this case was the short
distance travelled and a relatively less populated route. For 25 years
prior to 1987, Georgia Pacific shipped by CN Rail from its River Denys
mine 35 miles to Point Tupper wharf.
It is expected that the Melford mine will produce at the same rate
using up to 200 truck departures daily, or 400 both ways. The mine will
operate a full 168 hours/week, although we did not discuss whether trucks
would run around the clock or be concentrated in waking hours.Thus trucks
would pass every 3 minutes over 24 hours or every 2 minutes 7am to 11pm.
I am told that the trucks would run on the main road/street between Port
Hastings through Port Hawkesbury past shopping malls, stores, and motels.
I'm not sure where Parker Barss Donham got his 500 to 640 trucks in
the Daily News story of March 21st.
John Pearce
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