I’m mad! Seriously, a dump? My wife and I put our life savings into a nice little house in the country where we are raising our daughter. It has been on our minds constantly. We have researched and what we’ve learned isn’t good. Landfills leak, they burn, they smell and they’re noisy. They also grow. It took Albion 10 years and a Supreme Court battle to stop Waste Management from building a second landfill on property they own there.
The town supervisor says he wouldn’t consider it if there was any risk, then pitches the fact that it relieves the town of liability from the old landfill. He says that it will only be a hundred trucks a day. That comes out to about one every three minutes in a 10-hour day. Oh, but we’ll get free recycling dropoff. I don’t know about you, but mine gets picked up already with my trash.
Yes, I have trash pick-up, but aren’t four landfills within 60 miles enough? It would be if 47 percent of the state waste didn’t already come to this area.
Waste — there’s a lot of money in it, there’s no denying that. But, I’m hearing a lot from citizens of other towns about promises not being kept, and taxes not being paid, and threats from the landfill company to pull out if the town doesn’t like it.
So that brings me to Mr. Alloco. I don’t trust him. He claims that he will be the sole owner, no corporation, and a hands-on owner. But his name isn’t even on the LLC paperwork. Who is PFRR Construction? I’ve been to every meeting and haven’t heard of them. I do know that it takes a lot of money to open one of these things. Who are his backers? What I do know is that he’ll push us from our home. I don’t think I can raise my daughter next to a dump.
DON LOCHNER
Newark
I’m mad! Seriously, a dump? My wife and I put our life savings into a nice little house in the country where we are raising our daughter. It has been on our minds constantly. We have researched and what we’ve learned isn’t good. Landfills leak, they burn, they smell and they’re noisy. They also grow. It took Albion 10 years and a Supreme Court battle to stop Waste Management from building a second landfill on property they own there.
The town supervisor says he wouldn’t consider it if there was any risk, then pitches the fact that it relieves the town of liability from the old landfill. He says that it will only be a hundred trucks a day. That comes out to about one every three minutes in a 10-hour day. Oh, but we’ll get free recycling dropoff. I don’t know about you, but mine gets picked up already with my trash.
Yes, I have trash pick-up, but aren’t four landfills within 60 miles enough? It would be if 47 percent of the state waste didn’t already come to this area.
Waste — there’s a lot of money in it, there’s no denying that. But, I’m hearing a lot from citizens of other towns about promises not being kept, and taxes not being paid, and threats from the landfill company to pull out if the town doesn’t like it.
So that brings me to Mr. Alloco. I don’t trust him. He claims that he will be the sole owner, no corporation, and a hands-on owner. But his name isn’t even on the LLC paperwork. Who is PFRR Construction? I’ve been to every meeting and haven’t heard of them. I do know that it takes a lot of money to open one of these things. Who are his backers? What I do know is that he’ll push us from our home. I don’t think I can raise my daughter next to a dump.
DON LOCHNER
Newark
