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Letter To The Editor: Keep The Trash Out Of Tiverton

Eagleville Road resident Kielty Pelletier urges Tiverton residents to stand up against the expansion of Site Ready Materials, a waste processing facility in the neighborhood.

January 4, 2013

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Letter to the Editor:

Many of you are not aware of the potential danger lurking right now in the planning board meetings at the Town Hall. There have been numerous meetings recently that include the proposal for a transfer station in town. Site Ready Materials, located on Eagleville Road, is seeking the approval to construct two 25,000 sq ft buildings for the purpose of processing single-stream recyclables and to transfer construction and demolition debris, recyclables and solid municipal waste. In other words, they want to be a storage dump for household garbage coming in from Fall River and other surrounding communities.

Site Ready estimates that 340 trucks per day would be traveling down Eagleville Road (as well as Stafford or Fish roads) dumping 1,500 TONS of trash per day. That is almost 700 trips per day, of dump trucks, box trucks etc., making trips back and forth on our rural country roads, potentially clogging traffic and creating treacherously dangerous road conditions.

Site Ready estimates that $15,000 in additional tax revenue will be generated annually for the town. This is not worth the potentially hazardous conditions that it poses to create, directly to it's closest neighbors, Stafford Pond (Tiverton's public drinking water supply!) and anyone residing along the trash truck route, not to mention the potential widespread loss of property value in town.

I am an avid recycler and certainly realize the importance and value of having a plan in place to recycle. As you know, in Tiverton we have already turned to mandatory recycling and are paying to have our trash disposed of via pre-paid trash bags. This transfer station is not for us! It is definitely in the wrong neighborhood and surely in the wrong town. This plan seems to be in the best interest of one company and not in the best interest of our town. It is a direct detriment to many neighbors and to our environment.

I urge every one of you to attend the next planning board meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 8, 2013. Take action NOW before it is too late! Do not let what happened with the Sakonnet River Bridge tolls happen here. This is an issue that will NOT come up for vote in town. Your best chance to become more informed and to be able to express an opinion about this issue is to attend the planning board meeting January 8th, 7pm at the Town Hall.

Kielty Pelletier
Eagleville Road resident

Thanks. We'll email you the next time we update this story.

Joe Sousa.

6:41 am on Friday, January 4, 2013

While I am the first to push for economic development this is not a good fit for this area. I'll do my best to make the meeting.

b kcaj

6:52 am on Friday, January 4, 2013

Wow Joe-For once you kept your comments clean, and didn't resort to using profanity. Keep up the good work.

Brain Mederble

6:56 am on Friday, January 4, 2013

That's the difference between you and the carpetbagging TCCers, Joe. The TCC would have paved over the town to save a few bucks on their taxes if it wasn't impacting their neighborhood. They got some push back on this issue and flip-flopped quicker that you can say Mitt Romney! Now they are (thankfully) watching from the sidelines.

Narragansett Warrior

9:10 am on Friday, January 4, 2013

Please stop this.

buz wyman

10:29 am on Friday, January 4, 2013

Wow ! $15,000..That's almost 75 cents per resident ! NOT WORTH IT !..This is not allowed and not needed. I was on the planning board when this Construction Material Permit was granted (probably @ 10 years ago). Not TRASH ! This WILL affect the entire town ,not just the Eagleville Road residents with road repair cost and air polution.
Buz Wyman .....Main Road Tiverton

Mike

11:46 am on Friday, January 4, 2013

Does anyone, other than the owners of Site Ready, think this is a good idea?

Rug Doctor

1:36 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013

The town council could care less they are afraid Site Ready might sue the town for the highly suspect actions of our building official. The CYA council could care less about the pollution of our public water supply and the wells of the residents). What is currently taking place on this property is not legal but our town officials will look the other way as they have for years. I hope the planning board votes this down but our building official will most likely issue the permit anyway regardless of laws or rules.

Just Another Taxpayer

2:43 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013

Let's see, the current Town Council has been office for less than two months. How do you know how they will respond to this situation? You are just angry that your TCC buddies got thrown out, opps, I mean "retired" after the last election.