Public Health & Safety
For those following the Waste Transfer Station siting process, the next
work session with the BOCC and Olver Corporation will be this Tuesday May
20 at 5:30 pm at the OC Dept. of Social Services at 2501
Homestead Road,Chapel Hill, NC
27516.
This important
work session will be focusing on finalizing the "Exclusionary
Criteria" for selecting the Waste Transfer Station site and is open to
all.
Background materials may be found
at the BOCC web site at: http://www.co.orange.nc.us/OCCLERKS/080520e.htm
The
regular BOCC meeting follows at 7:30.
Date:
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 1:30pm
Location:
Southern Orange Human Services Center
I'm a little frustrated because I just learned about this event yesterday, and I think the word needs to get spread farther for this to be effective. But anyway, here's the deal:
The Historic Rogers Road/Eubanks Community
Invites you to meet the folks
behind the headlines
If you’ve been following the news stories
about the Orange County Landfill and the siting of the new Waste
Transfer Station for the past year, you’ve heard a lot about the folks
that live in the historic Rogers Road/Eubanks Community.
Now, come and meet the folks behind the headlines in
this historic and vibrant community. Come spend a Saturday afternoon
and hear their stories, meet their kids and absorb first-hand, the 150
years of history in this community. Come share home-cooked food, listen
to live gospel and steel-drum reggae music and join hands with others
to end environmental racism. Click here for the event flier.
I already have two committments tomorrow afternoon but will try to stop by around 4:30 if at all possible.
Date:
Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location:
Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love International Church, Rogers Road
Neighbors Burlington, Graham and Mebane have hired a law firm to fight the "Jordan Lake Rules" that the NC Division of Water Quality presented to the Environmental Management Commission. At issue is the unacceptable levels of nitrogen and phosphorous put into the Haw River, and thus Lake Jordan from upstream waste water and storm water runoff. Not very neighborly of them to want to keep dumping excess nutrients downstream, but as with all things the fight is really over the money that it would cost to retrofit existing infrastructure.
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This just hit my email inbox:
I am writing you because of your leadership and involvement in Carolina Open Source Initiative over the past year. On Monday, March 5th at 7:00 p.m. the Chapel Hill Town Council will take a critical vote on the installation of pedestrian-level lighting and blue light call boxes in Chapel Hill residential areas. This vote will allow the installation of these initiatives to begin immediately as proposed by the student body. These safety initiatives will increase safety around our campus in the residential areas that we live. The residents of Rosemary, Mallette, Church, Short, Ransom, and McCauley Streets will be the most effected by this resolution; therefore student support is vital. I understand that during exams times most are not able to come out to the meeting at the town hall, yet it is critical that the council hear your support of this issue.
The elephant in the room that nobody is talking about... factoring rising fuel costs into the equation.
It's mindnumbing that an area that prides itself on sustainability would even be considering a program to export it's own waste. The very definition of sustainability is something that can be maintained into the indefinite future. Is paying to haul waste out of county sustainable in any sense of the word? Is increasing transportation miles at the end of a product's long transportation chain to get to the consumer even sane?
What percentage of trash in the current landfill comes from UNC? What percentage comes from Chapel Hill and Carrboro? What percentage comes from elsewhere in the county? Maybe each district should be required to sustainably deal with it's own waste.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro have sustainable community as their vision. Carolina North has as it's stated vision: "This and other progressive measures will help make Carolina North a model of sustainability — a campus that is socially, environmentally, and economically sound."
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