There are many ways you can help stop the dump expansion!
1. Attend the Yamhill County Commissioners Application Hearing on MARCH 19, Thursday, starting at 1:00 p.m. It will be held in Room 103 of the McMinnville Community Center.
This meeting could run very late. If you can’t come at 1:00 PM, come later. The opponents of the expansion will be second on the agenda. You can be present and provide moral support and be a visible symbol of those who are opposing the approval of this application. The more people there the better! You can speak to the commissioners regarding your own concerns about the expansion. (Please bring written copy if possible so this can become part of the permanent record.) You can bring written testimony to be submitted to the commissioners.
2. Write letters to the editors of all three local papers: The Newberg Graphic (gallen@eaglenewspapers.com) The News Register (csollars@newsregister.com), and the Sheridan Sun (news@sheridansun.com).
3. If you notice an odor coming from the landfill you can report this to DEQ. Email Gary Andes, ANDES.Gary@deq.state.or.us He needs to know when you smelled it, where you were and on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad was the odor. This is very helpful and important. You are to report the odor every time you smell it. Encourage others to do the same.
4. We would appreciate donations to Waste Not of Yamhill County to help us pay our attorney fees. Waste Management (Riverbend) has a large group of attorneys helping them obtain approval. We have one very good attorney who we are using on a limited basis. Send donations to: Waste Not of Yamhill Count, P.O. Box 1016, McMinnville, OR 97128
5. Spread the word. Now is the time to be vocal so our County Commissioners know where the residents of this county stand on this application!
1 comments:
In recent weeks, there have been many letters to the editors of the local newspapers in Yamhill county concerning the Riverbed Landfill in McMinnville. I am also opposed to the expansion of the landfill.
My Aunt and Uncle lived in Hillsboro for many years. One Saturday, while my family was visiting them, I went with my uncle to the transfer station in Hillsboro with his pick-up full of their household trash. I asked my uncle why he did not have curbside service. He informed me that it was much cheaper to take his trash in once a month than to have his trash picked up.
Sure enough, when we got to the transfer site, he paid $5.00 to dump his entire load of trash, which finally ends up at the Riverbend site. If this can be done in cities outside of Yamhill county, then why do I have to pay $16.50 minimum every time I take my pick-up with trash to the landfill at Riverbend.
The trash from transfer sites is handled at least twice and trucked to the same landfill in McMinnville. How can this cost the people outside of Yamhill county less than one third the cost of me delivering my trash and dumping it over the bank MYSELF?!
Another very aggrevating thing going on at Riverbend that most citizens of Yamhill county are not aware of is that many, many full sized semi-trucks run daily to our landfill from out of the state of Oregon.
I know this as an absolute true fact. I have contracted trucks on several occasions to transport scrap steel for my company to local scrap yards in Portland.
These trucks were out of Longview, WA. They hauled full truck loads of chicken feathers(and who knows what else) from a chicken plant by Longview to the Riverbend landfill before coming on down to Willamina to pick up my material.
Why should the local citizens of Yamhill county ever approve the expansion of the Riverbend landfill site just to make our beautiful community a smelly, nasty eyesore because people from other counties and STATES don't want their own trash in their communities?
As far as I am concerned, the owners and top positioned employees of the corporation running the Riverbend Landfill only care about their bottom line, MONEY! After all, these people are not even residents of OUR local community.
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