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A bulldozer flattens a huge mound of garbage at the Chinguacousy Township municipal garbage dump north of Bramalea
A bulldozer flattens a huge mound of garbage at the Chinguacousy Township municipal garbage dump north of Bramalea

A bulldozer flattens a huge mound of garbage at the Chinguacousy Township municipal garbage dump north of Bramalea

Date4/5/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: A bulldozer flattens a huge mound of garbage at the Chinguacousy Township municipal garbage dump north of Bramalea. This landfill area has been in operation for eight years and is expected to be full next year. Township officials have decided to build a garbage recycling plant within the next three years to ease garbage disposal problem. Working at dump site are Floyd Maguire and Randy Stott.
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