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— Sandy Buchanan, Executive Director, Ohio Citizen Action  Ruth Larsen MAPLE HEIGHTS — “After an MRI the doctor told me I had pulmonary fibrosis and he showed it to me on the X-ray. I have only half (50% ) the lung capacity as normal. I blame all our sickness on the bad air and dust from your company. It has never belonged that close to people living in the neighborhood. I have to take meds so I can breathe and keep the coughing at bay.” — Ruth Larsen, Maple Heights resident  Tremont resident Peter Dyczkiewycz TREMONT — “As residents of Tremont for 10 years, my wife and I have communicated with you every business season asking you to be a good neighbor. Your verbal and written commitments for improvements such as: · Working on the odors and soot to keep them at minimum levels · Replacing backing signals with strobes · Improve dump truck gates to minimize the “pounding” · Operating your business between business hours and not until midnight · Cleaning up your property that runs along University Road with landscaping ALWAYS GO UNADDRESSED BY YOU. Again, I am writing my yearly letter to you asking that you commit and keep your promises to us, as all of the above issues continue to get worse. I am sure that at the end of your business day, you are able to enjoy the warm weather in your home by opening your windows; however, we cannot! The soot and noise are horrific. To be a good neighbor, it takes more than serving hot dogs (during you down time) to residents with a tour of your facility. It takes an honest commitment – it takes an honest businessman to do more than applying a temporary band aide. KEEP YOUR PROMISES!” — Peter Dyczkiewycz, Tremont resident  Tremont resident Joseph Fields TREMONT — “I am writing this letter as a concerned resident of Tremont. I live on University Road, adjacent to your asphalt plant. We have lived here since 2001 and have seen the increase of production and the associated noise and pollution increase each ‘asphalt season.’ I am concerned about the health and pollution that is being deposited in my environment from your plant. I wash my home 3-4 times during asphalt season, just to get rid of the pollution deposited on my home. I have had to repaint the doors and railings in the front and back of our home. I would love to leave the windows open, but the screens also become soot covered and I am concerned about the contents of the soot. If the soot can eat away the paint of the house, the doors, and the railings, then what is it doing to my lungs? I am asking you to consider the negative effects that your plant is having on me and neighboring residents and to take measures to limit their affects.
Soil with contamination levels over 50 parts per million will go to a landfill approved for hazardous waste. Lower level contaminated soil will go to Rumpke’s landfill in Colerain Twp., according to the Sierra Club. While she is glad to see the project finally moving forward, Marilyn Wall of the Sierra Club said she is concerned about the waste being trucked to the Rumpke landfill due to an ongoing ‘thermal reaction,’ classified as a fire by the Ohio EPA, which broke out underground in August 2009. ‘The Ohio EPA can’t figure out how to put it out and we don’t want to go from one bad situation to another,’ Wall said. — Jessica Heffner, Middletown Journal
In its FOIA complaint, the NRDC says Baard Energy’s ‘Ohio River Clean Fuels’ project will use new technology to transform coal to diesel fuel. The process uses electricity and naphtha, a highly volatile substance, the NRDC says. The Department of Defense would buy the diesel fuel, which Baard describes as ‘alternative’ fuel. The NRDC says the Air Force base and the Department of the Air Force are holding back critical documents from a FOIA request the group submitted in October last year.” — Sonya Angelica Diehn, Courthouse News Service
– Melissa English, Southern Ohio Campaign Director, Ohio Citizen Action Click here to send an email to all council members at once. Please rework the suggested text in your own words for the greatest impact.Larger recycling bins delayed— Jane Prendergast, Cincinnati Enquirer  photo: Craig Ruttle, Cincinnati Enquirer The site of the Rumpke Sanitary Landfill in Colerain Township has gone from a gentle, rural valley to Hamilton county’s highest point in just 65 years. Known to its neighbors as “Mount Rumpke”, the site measures 509 acres and 1,075 feet above sea level and is the largest and tallest in the region. The landfill was expanded by 95 acres in 2004 and can accommodate waste at current generation rates until 2025. (source: Hamilton County Solid Waste Management Plan) Rumpke has had serious environmental violations at this site. A 30 acre trash-slide later led to an ammonia leak into Banklick Creek measuring 830 times greater than normal levels. Rumpke was also fined for illegally accepting hazardous waste in 2005 and a subsurface fire of unknown origin has been burning since August 2009. Now Rumpke wants another expansion – 350 acres –hoping to double the dump’s present footprint and extend its lifespan until 2080. Here are 4 good reasons not to expand the dump:
What about the township’s right to decide for itself?
Colerain Township denied Rumpke’s zoning request for this expansion in 2006. In 2007 Ohio passed a law reaffirming municipalities’ authority to deny siting requests by privately-owned waste management companies. Rumpke sued, stating that they were a public utility and exempt from local zoning laws. Last year a Hamilton County district court judge ruled in their favor and the township is appealing the decision. ResourcesProperty Owners Want Equal Rights, Inc. Administrative Orders from OEPA and the Action Plan regarding the fire Recycling programs in the area
OLD WESTBURY, NY – “Monday is the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident. It comes as the nuclear industry and pro-nuclear government officials in the U.S. and other nations try to ‘revive’ nuclear power. It also follows the just-released publication of a book, the most comprehensive study ever made, on the impacts of the Chernobyl disaster… It concludes that based on records now available, some 985,000 people died of cancer caused by the Chernobyl accident. That’s between when the accident occurred in 1986 and 2004. More deaths, it projects, will follow. The book explodes the claim of the International Atomic Energy Agency – still on its website – that the expected death toll from the Chernobyl accident will be 4,000.” — Professor Karl Grossman, State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, Counterpunch |
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