At their Monday meeting, City council approved a motion to stop the airport from turning into a junkyard. On a recommendation from the airport advisory committee, council said they would create a bylaw “that would deal with nuisances” at the airport. According to airport manager Grahame Go, the nuisances are the garbage and debris that are cluttering up the airport. The debris is being left outside At their Monday meeting
, City council approved a motion to stop the airport from turning into a junkyard. On a recommendation from the airport advisory committee, council said they would create a bylaw “that would deal with nuisances” at the airport. According to airport manager Grahame Go, the nuisances are the garbage and debris that are cluttering up the airport. The debris is being left outside the hangars by the businesses that lease them. “It is mainly garbage and different things that people are not keeping in their hangars,” said Go, who is also the chair of the airport advisory committee. “This creates a possible hazard to the aircraft taking off and landing.” Go said there are many reasons for keeping the airport grounds in tidy condition. “First, pieces of garbage can get sucked up into propellers or turbines. In the air industry we call that ’FOD‘ – foreign object damage,” said Go. “The secondary reason is that we want to keep the airport looking professional. We want it clean and tidy for people looking to rent or other people coming to the airport.”
, City council approved a motion to stop the airport from turning into a junkyard. On a recommendation from the airport advisory committee, council said they would create a bylaw “that would deal with nuisances” at the airport. According to airport manager Grahame Go, the nuisances are the garbage and debris that are cluttering up the airport. The debris is being left outside the hangars by the businesses that lease them. “It is mainly garbage and different things that people are not keeping in their hangars,” said Go, who is also the chair of the airport advisory committee. “This creates a possible hazard to the aircraft taking off and landing.” Go said there are many reasons for keeping the airport grounds in tidy condition. “First, pieces of garbage can get sucked up into propellers or turbines. In the air industry we call that ’FOD‘ – foreign object damage,” said Go. “The secondary reason is that we want to keep the airport looking professional. We want it clean and tidy for people looking to rent or other people coming to the airport.”A drive around the airport grounds revealed that approximately half of the hangars had garbage or debris placed outside. There was also a boat and an old car under a tarp as well as many rusted airframes and landing floats littering the area. “Some of the leases have clauses saying that they can‘t put garbage out but it‘s just not economically viable to take (the tenants) to court on a breach of the lease agreement,” said Go, adding that by creating a bylaw specific to the airport, the situation could be dealt with effectively. Go said airport requests to the businesses in the hangars to clean up their areas have gone largely ignored. “All airports have this problem. A lot of people have said they will do something about it but haven‘t. Others have just ignored out letters.” The new bylaw would allow the so called nuisances to be removed and the cost of the removal added to the property tax of the offenders. Go said that although the threat of debris on the runway could have potentially serious consequences, staff does an inspection of the tarmac every morning.
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