Show Up And Show Your Concern

To the Editor:

The inland wetland meeting scheduled for October 14 at 7:30 pm at 31 Peck’s Road will include a public hearing on the Housatonic Railroad Company’s (HRRC) revised application to the DEP for the expansion of the transfer station into a solid waste facility on top of the Pond Brook aquifer in Hawleyville.

This revised application represents another maneuver by the HRRC and its garbage business partners to force an unregulated and unwanted transfer station and solid waste facility into the community. For them it has been a game of word-play, admitted embarrassments, experiments, mistakes, encroachments, and trespasses as they have only corrected problems when they have been identified by the town or the neighbors. No one, to include the federally exempt railroad acting as an accommodator for the trash business, should be allowed to continually misrepresent their intentions to further their own economic gains at the expense of the community and the environment.

The amended application that now calls for both storing and moving 1,000 tons of contaminated spoils and soils, scrap tire, treated wood, and construction debris everyday in and out of a huge building from 6 am to 8 pm, six days a week on top of wetlands and an aquifer in a neighborhood is not acceptable now nor will it ever be. Please attend this meeting and voice your concerns against the current transfer station and its proposed expansion — our lives depend on it.

Cathy Winkler

Currituck Road, Newtown                                          October 7, 2009