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| The cost of just one 8 cu. yd. garbage bin is roughly $1000.00, their normal life expectancy is 18-20 years, and the Red Lake Transfer Station utilizes about 40 of these on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. When people maliciously start one of these on fire, their life expectancy drops to about 1 year and they must be replaced because they weaken and are a serious danger to the people who handle them on a daily basis. The total cost to replace all 40 bins is roughly $40,000 and is a preventable cost if people just wouldn't set them on fire--at least preventable until 18-20 years. Having to replace them 17-18 years before their time, would cost nearly $700,000 dollars over that span of time--when it normally would have cost just $40,000. Surely there is a better way for the Red Lake Band to have to spend $600,000. |
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| Surely there are better things to do than burn the bins |
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| And that isn't all that can result from someone setting a fire in the garbage bins. Last year a bin was dumped into the hauling truck and the crew had no idea something was still smoldering underneath everything. The fire ignited during the night inside the compactor, and although the truck itself was only moderately damanged, the $112,000 compactor was a total loss. A similar smoldering fire to one of their Transfer Trailers would cost nearly $50,000 to replace. |
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| From the Red Lake Tribal Code, 504.03 Damage to property of the Red Lake Band, Subdivision 4: Damage to tribal property. Any tribal member who shall, with out proper authority, use or damage any public, government or tribal property or water rights or cause a substantial interruption or impairment of a public service is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $1000.00 to $5000.00 and up to one year in jail or both. |
| Red Lake Transfer Station 218-679-2988 |