HRRA Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day Scheduled

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Sep 16, 2011 12:00 am

DANBURY â Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority (HRRA) will conduct a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day Saturday, September 24, for residents of Newtown, Bethel, Danbury, New Fairfield, Redding, and Ridgefield.

Residents of these towns can drop off items that are not accepted at landfills and transfer stations between 9 am and 2 pm at the Danbury Public Works facility, 53A Newtown Road (Route 6).

The following items will be accepted: oil-based paints; stains and varnishes; paint thinners and strippers; wood preservatives; resins, rosins and adhesives; furniture, floor, and metal polishes; rug and upholstery cleaners; oven, toilet bowl, and drain cleaners; swimming pool chemicals; fluorescent bulbs; pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides (including lawn care products); flea powder; moth balls; spot removers; dry cleaning solvents; lighter fluids; septic tank degreasers; engine degreasers; waste fuels (kerosene, gasoline); carburetor cleaners and brake fluids; transmission fluids, car waxes; full or partially full aerosol cans; rubber cement, airplane glue; photo chemicals and chemistry sets; hobby supplies, rechargeable (Ni-CD) batteries; camera batteries; and thermostats and thermometers.

The following items will not be accepted: latex paints (allow to dry then put in garbage); empty aerosol cans (put in garbage); household batteries (put in garbage); PCB capacitors; smoke detectors; auto batteries and tires; motor oil and antifreeze (recycle at town drop-off center); ammunition, fireworks, explosives (call the police department); radioactive materials; unknown gases; controlled substances; pathological material; pharmaceutical or medical wastes; electronics, computers, VCRs (Newtownâs transfer station has a collection area for these devices).

Residents who cannot make it to this monthâs collection day can participate in future collection days, even when they are scheduled for other towns. Visit www.hrra.org to see the schedule of this yearâs Household Hazardous Waste Collection Days and their locations.

For additional information contact HRRA at 203-775-6256, extension 304, info@hrra.org or www.hrra. org.

HRRA is a regional waste management authority made up of 11 municipalities in western Connecticut serving more than 225,000 people.

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How do you propose tapping the brakes, Dave? 8-30g already trumps any local regulations- you don't have a brake pedal to push. Brookfield, Trumbull and now Ridgefield have a clear case for a moratorium based on the development (thanks to 8-30g) that has already occurred. I don't see a clear case for Newtown to request a moratorium... yet.

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Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.

Hey, there you go! Richard solved it. Thanks, that seems so easy- we'll just get rid of the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court. Seriously, the 2nd amendment doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The Supreme Court doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The problem is not the tools, but the criminals & the mental illness. The state of Connecticut seems to be focused on the tools, like Richard, while ignoring the users of those tools.

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Ned, please familarize yourself with 8-30G, and then please share the unique flaws that may be helpful in formulating a denial An 8-30g project can be denied only on very narrow grounds – i.e., if it presents health, safety or other concerns that exceed a town’s need for affordable housing. According to the TOG website, “projects cannot be rejected for incompatibility with a Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD); density; traffic congestion; height; aesthetics; concerns of neighbors or the community; and failure to comply with local zoning regulations.” 8-30g proposals are rarely denied by planning and zoning officials because the burden of proof on appeal is on the town. Appeals are costly, but a municipality can be successful in a court case if it has sufficiently established that the concerns leading to denial are factual and substantive.

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The town should certainly measure its performance against the statewide strategies. Unless I missed it I only know of one small cluster of homes that would meet the affordable housing program. Given the 500 or so new units being added in the last 10 years I think that 4/500 would not meet the metric to allow for a moratorium. I mean, fingers crossed for a Christmas miracle but I suspect we will see a few 8-30's sent our way in a method to avoid the Nimby mob. Thanks, Nimby mob.

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