Friday, May 23, 2008

Landfill: City Council meeting is Tuesday!

Ron Klodenski, as he always does, sent out an email alert to concerned neighbors of the landfill alerting them to a story about said landfill in the Daily News.

This one was amusing:

NEWBURYPORT — New Ventures, the company that owns the embattled Crow Lane Landfill, is set to ask the City Council Monday [should be Tuesday] to allow more material to be dumped at the site as part of efforts to cap the landfill this year.

The red indicate's Ron's input.

I like how Stephen Tait characterizes the landfill as having grown to the size of "an impressive hill."

Anyway, I thought that the Attorney General, New Ventures and the DEP had reached, or were about to reach, an agreement about a month ago. It certainly seemed that way in the emails and in the Daily News.

April 24, 2008
Newburyport: Landfill settlement near; city in dark about contents
By Stephen Tait
Staff Writer

NEWBURYPORT — The Department of Environmental Protection, the attorney general and New Ventures are close to reaching a settlement over citations and a preliminary injunction issued against the Crow Lane Landfill owner in 2006. But city officials remain in the dark about what that agreement may be and will remain on the outside looking in until the settlement is signed and officially approved by a judge.

Whatever! I have to go do some productive work (as in, the kind that generates revenue).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe Newbury should hire New Ventures to place some sand on the beach - apparently they are beyond DEP control.

Gillian Swart said...

Bubs, I think everyone is beyond DEP control.