Three of the four candidates seeking the three open seats on the Cortland town board discussed the landfill and a proposed 1 cent sales tax referendum among other items during the League of Women Voters’ candidate forum held at the Cortland Lions Club shelter. The forum was moderated by Kay Shelton attended by about 60 people.
All three candidates spoke in favor of the proposed 1 cent sales tax referendum question on the April 5 ballot.
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The video on the landfill question is hard to watch. On the “witness stand” at the appeal hearing held Nov 22, 2010 I was asked to provide names of people who were prevented from attending the all important siting application open house held earlier in the year.
That’s a really tough question to answer. I did name Bob Seyller, mayor of Cortland. Looks like I could have named Chuck Lanning and Brad Stone, too. But when Waste Management’s attorney, Don Moran, asked why I thought Seyller was prevented from participating in the public hearing, I responded with this question:
“If someone paid you a million bucks to not object or to assist anyone who might object, would you show up?”
Moran objected to my answer and the hearing officer, Brad Halloran, ordered the court reporter to instruct the IPCB to disregard my answer.
And the IPCB ruled that since I did not name one person who was prevented from participating in the siting application process then none must have existed.
Stone’s discussion on the garbage truck traffic and his lack of awareness of H2S and potential risks is disturbing. The current landfill is less than 1/4 mile from a grade school and a residential neighborhood, a subdivision of Cortland. Without a court order stopping the landfill expansion the amount of garbage intake will increase 7x. A pandora’s box of gases will be exposed when the old original dump is exhumed. The municipal authority should be acutely aware of potentially life threatening conditions.
The traffic routes taken by incoming and outgoing garbage trucks has in all reality not been determined. Waste Management’s traffic expert gave a suggested route. He first attempted to imply that state and local police would write tickets to truck drivers who didn’t use The Route. He later recanted that story. It was then determined that large garbage trucks, like semis, would use I88 to Peace Rd to 38 to Somonauk (with whatever influence or authority Waste Management has over those drivers) and smaller garbage trucks could use other routes.
The law says truck drivers can use any truck designated route they desire. Some official(s) told the Daily Chronicle that most of the garbage would likely be coming from McHenry County. That’s not a county readily served by I88.
Scary.