Town Investigating Complaints Against Site-Ready Materials
Tiverton is investigation at least two complaints against Site-Ready Materials & Recycling Co. that is seeking a major expansion of its Eagleville Road facility.
Tiverton is investigating Site-Ready Materials & Recycling Co. after the business denied the town building official access to the facility and at least two residents have filed formal complaints.
Site-Ready Materials applied for a special uses permit to expand its waste management facility on the north end of town in the spring of this year. The Planning Board has met twice about the matter since May 19.
At the Tuesday, Oct. 9 Town Council meeting, more than a dozen residents attended to speak in opposition to the expansion, despite the fact that the council has no jurisdiction over the acceptance or denial of Site-Ready's application.
"I called [Site-Ready Atty. Eric Brainsky] after the first Planning Board meeting where the plan came up for hearing [in May] and he hadn't gotten back to me so when saw him just prior to the council meeting at the Planning Board meeting [on Sept. 25], I asked again then and he said no," said Gareth Eames, Tiverton's code enforcement officer.
Eames said his office does not typically tour every existing business that requests a special uses permit.
"It depends on what they are applying to do," he said. "But I wanted to do it because of the reaction from the public that I had heard."
Eames said he was unable to attend the Planning Board's May 15 tour of the facility due to a scheduling conflict and was "playing catch-up."
Site-Ready is seeking a special uses permit approval by the Planning Board to allow for the construction of two 25,000 square-foot, 40-foot tall buildings that would process up to 1,500 tons of of recyclable materials, construction and demolition debris and municipal solid waste daily.
Residential neighbors to the site are concerned the increased activity would cause pollution, noise and smells as well as clog roads with an estimated 740 trucks per day.
While Eames could not specify the nature of the formal complaints filed against the business, he said they concurred with concerns raised at the Oct. 9 meeting.
"I can't tell anything about [the complaints] other than general terms," said Eames in an interview on Thursday. "If I were to give out names of complainants, even more feuding would go on than already does."
During the the Town Council meeting earlier this week, residents expressed concerns that prohibited activities were already taking place on the Site-Ready grounds. Town Administrator James Goncalo told the public that the town was exploring legal avenues to gain access to the property. Town Solicitor Andrew Teitz said he could not comment as to what specifically those avenues are.
Eames however, said he could obtain a warrant in an extreme case where a homeowner or business owner refused the code enforcement offical access to a property.
Over the next few weeks, Eames will check the validity of the complaints and move forward with the investigation, he said.
BD
6:28 am on Friday, October 12, 2012
Let's hope this is a real investigation and not another political stunt like Coulter's "embezzlement" investigation that turned out to just be another unappropriated waste of taxpayer's dollars by the TCC.
Cranky Yankee
7:15 am on Friday, October 12, 2012
Talk about being dumber than dumb ...
You're asking the Town to permit a major expansion of your business, which one might assume is intended to increase your profitability. Yet, when the Town Building Official - the same gentleman who will be asked for his expert opinion by the Planning Board in considering your Special Use permit - requests to visit the property, it's 'Katie, bar the door' and you deny him access.
I'm not a psychic, but I can predict how the Planning Board is going to vote ... Access Denied; therefore, Petition DENIED.
Methinks Atty. Eric Brainsky needs to use a few more of his 'Brain' cells and less of his bluster ...
Rug Doctor
7:32 am on Friday, October 12, 2012
Why did cease and desist orders on this property get taken away? This business has already expanded and now they are trying to make it legal. Mr Eames is the problem not the solution.
ConcernedinTiv
8:45 am on Friday, October 12, 2012
Hasn't that place already expanded enough? It's huge. They have forever changed that landscape by leveling trees and excavating/ processing all sorts of rock, and building mini mountains. II don't think we need anymore fall river trash trucks going into there.
ray
9:32 am on Friday, October 12, 2012
OOOH PLEASE!!..HERE WE GO AGAIN...STOP ALL BUSINESS IN TOWN....AND JUST RAISE OUR FU$KIN TAXES AGAIN..THAT WILL FIX EVERTHING!!
ConcernedinTiv
10:24 am on Friday, October 12, 2012
Maybe the further expansion on that business will lower your monthly taxes by a couple of dollars, or in effect not raise them by 2 dolars a month. Definately worth all of the down sides, me i'll just take coffee one more day to work instead. It's truely worth looking at that eyesore.
Rug Doctor
2:27 pm on Friday, October 12, 2012
This place has expanded and Mr. Eames has not noticed at thing...Time for a new code enforcer and a replacement for Mr. Lambert, Roderick and Little Bret. This will be Tiverton's Pond View with lots of legal bills and years of in and out of courtrooms.
Gerry Jones
10:21 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
So Manfred can't tell/RD, you have finally split with the hot dog king but not lord nelson & robbie. Did you not see how actively those 2 worked against this proposed business expansion? Instead of standing up on his own, lord nelson writes a letter telling his constituents to contact their state rep & senator. This isn't a state issue, nelly, it's YOUR issue. YOU have to take a stand here, not deflect it like you have every other real challenge put before you. My guess is the TC will drag this out until after the election so it doesn't hit them smack in the voting box. The added $15k in taxes this place will generate for the town will put a big dent in the cost of that pump-out boat they voted for. And we all thought nelly didn't know where the $ was coming from.
Warren Earl
4:28 pm on Friday, October 12, 2012
It is always nice to here some one wants to recycle! Going green is suppose to be a beneficial thing from my understanding. Espacially to the towns surrounding. I would be sad to loose this bussiness to misunderstandings. Lower our taxes wouldn't that be a nice thing. Lets try not to make it more difficult to improve this world. I'm sure they are going to implement a traffic plan to lessen the impact of traffic for the additional trucks.
bigmanny
6:30 pm on Friday, October 12, 2012
What traffic plan could possibly lessen the impact of 700 hundred large trucks a day traveling down a winding country road. Are you not concerned with the impact on the drinking water and the decrease in property value that would occur along Fish, Stafford and Eagleville Road.
ConcernedinTiv
8:29 pm on Friday, October 12, 2012
If we can't enforce it now, what are we going to do when all this " demolition debris" starts coming in? Asbestos and other contaminates should be a real concern. Tiverton doesn't need to be the intermediate stop for everyone else's waste. We'll be left with everything that leaches from there, long after the waste has been recycled. Sounds good for future generations, they'll be glad we thought of them.
Narragansett Warrior
12:06 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012
EBEC,sight readywatershed,Nonquit
manuel souza
11:56 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012
the code enforcer is playing catch up? since May? He was not at the meeting that was held in November. Everyone and their brother had questions concerning this expansion and he is just trying to get on the site now? How much tax money is this company bringing to the town compared to how much they SHOULD be bringing to the town? That is public record. That Lambert, Roderik and Pelletier would not let any one speak. Why not? I wonder what they would do if it were on their street, their neighborhood roads. They put it on the agenda. Only Nelson and Coulter seemed to have any concern. Yes; it is in the hands of the Planning Board, the expansion that is.
What about what is going on there now??? Fall River garbage trucks?? That's no secret. There are photos to prove that. The code enforcer already issued a cease and desist. What happened to that??... What about the blasting that he questioned? What happened to that? And how is the Planning Board going to explain how this business is operating without the proper licenses from the DEM? The Planning Board needs to be investigated in this town and the code enforcer needs to find another job in some other field. He clearly is incompetent.
george medeiros
10:18 am on Monday, October 15, 2012
24 is a straight highway where Site Ready is located, give them an exit for access and the traffic problem is over, no trucks on Egleville rd, who would disagree-, that type of business should have direct highway access anyway even with the amount oftrucks going there now. they are not going away anytime soon, lets make a good business better by seeing how we can help, not by trying to stop progress.
St Nick
10:04 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
I agree, we should "GIVE THEM" an on and off ramp, then put a toll on it ;) ...lets see..$4.00 x (340 x 2) =$2720.00 per day!!! ....$707,200.00 per year, not counting weekends!!!
Who would disagree?!