There is a crappy situation to the north of us in Southgate Township, specifically Dundalk.
Southgate Council has been less than transparent about their decision to install an industry that burns human waste, offal (animal waste) in a facility located adjacent to a school and homes.
Like really, really close.
There is already a facility that does something with "compost" and here is an excerpt from the minutes from the Southgate June 1, 2011 Committee of the Whole about their traffic options:
Highway #10 by-pass roadway from Ida Street options:
Option #1 – The best option at this point as it is the most efficient route and least EP land impacts;
Option #2 – Not enough room between lagoon ponds and Foley drain;
Option #3 – This option has a few problems being the cost of a box culvert to cross he Foley drain, EP lands would be effected and loss of some saleable industrial lands for this roadway route;
Option #4 – This option has EP lands and is not being considered; and
Option #5 – This option would us the existing road allowance townline right of way, however more EP land than option #1 and would require legal investigation and agreements with Melancthon Township.
And at the October 12 meeting about Lystek, the business that wants to bring that offal smell with their product, the Mayor of Southgate stated that meetings had been held with Melancthon about a bylaw/diversion road through Melancthon for the smelly trucks. Anyone else hear anything about that?
So coupled with the DEEP Project there could be many trucks full of 'interesting' waste heading north and traversing County roads. Add this to the prospect of convoys of gravel trucks and the odd truck carrying Ammonium Nitrate or Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil makes for an interesting road spill.
ReplyDeleteThe very idea of offal-filled trucks colliding with gravel trucks and dynamite-carrying trucks on County Road 124 on a blustery winter day is so
ReplyDeletebeyond my sensory capabilities, I think that we should have a practice run-through, so emergency crews will know how to handle it WHEN it happens. Lindsay Broadhead can ride in the back of the offal truck, Seth Klarman can drive the gravel truck, and John Lowndes can be at the wheel of the dynamite truck. Heck, we can charge people to watch this event. I myself would pay a hundred bucks to see these three covered in rotten pig parts....
The Deputy Mayor's silence is deafening.....
ReplyDeleteThe Deputy Mayor of Melancthon is still licking his wounds after the ass kicking he got at the fire meeting the other night.
ReplyDeletewhat happened at the meeting?
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