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Jolly Roger Skull
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Posted - 12/29/2008 : 9:38:48 PM
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Thank you for the warm welcome! I feel homesick when I am away from Crow lane.
Skull and Crossbones
2 Crow Lane Newburyport, MA
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massdee
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Posted - 12/29/2008 : 9:52:59 PM
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| We are always happy to have new people? join our little community. After all, you could always put your flag on the top of the piles down at Wood Waste. |
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Jolly Roger Skull
Member
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Posted - 12/30/2008 : 12:58:54 PM
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Interesting poll here. You must be logged in to see this link.
Dont take away my home at Crow Lane. I'm sure I can adjust to
Skull and Crossbones
85 Boston St Everett, MA
the lovely smells are the same!
Skull and Crossbones
2 Crow Lane Newburyport, MA
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outoftowner
Member
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Posted - 01/01/2009 : 12:13:01 PM
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From the minutes of the 12/22/08 BOA meeting - Anyone know what it means?
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A0336-08 Order/s/Aldermen Robert J. Van Campen, Frank Nuzzo, Michael Marchese, L. Charles DiPerri, Sal Sachetta, Wayne Matewsky and Jason Marcus
In the interest of public health, and due to the frequent and ongoing complaints of odors and noxious fumes emanating from the site, that the City of Everett, acting through its Board of Health, immediately issue a cease and desist order in connection with the operation of Wood Waste of Boston in the City of Everett.
PASSED, RECONSIDERATION FAILED, SENT DOWN FOR CONCURRENCE.
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massdee
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Posted - 01/01/2009 : 12:25:09 PM
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It means that our Board of Alderman passed an order asking the Board of Health to issue a Cease and Desist order to Wood Waste. They then made a recommendation for reconsideration and that failed. All that means is the first vote stands and cannot be further discussed.
Sent down for concurrence means, since we have a bicameral form of government in Everett, it is being sent down to our Common Council for their vote.
If they vote it down then it will go no further. If they pass it, your guess is as good as mine what will happen to the piece. |
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Tails
Administrator
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 Posted - 01/01/2009 : 10:40:16 PM
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Even if it passes the common council, I don't "think" that means the administration will defiantly issue a cease and desist.
It should be passed unanimously, in the interest of public safety, that way there we at least have that to fall back on. |
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Paul
Senior Member
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Posted - 01/02/2009 : 09:16:55 AM
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Tails and Tetris.
Thank you for your opinions on whether to issue a cease and desist order or not.
It is a very interesting subject. |
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Tails
Administrator
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Posted - 01/17/2009 : 8:24:49 PM
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Newburyport - You must be logged in to see this link.
William Thibeault, president of New Ventures, the company that owns the Crow Lane landfill, has made good on his promise to demand reparations from the city for cleanup of sewer sludge and municipal waste at the dump if the city did not agree to his plans to increase materials disposed of at the site.
About 15 minutes before the start of Mondays City Council meeting, councilors were presented with copies of the eight-page demand letter from a law firm representing New Ventures Associates, LLC, the landfill owner.
The letter, in which New Ventures is, at one point, identified as an innocent purchaser, serves as a demand for settlement pursuant to Massachusetts General Law Chapter 21E to address contamination at the Landfill and for compensation for response actions that New Ventures has already incurred as a result of Oil and Hazardous Materials at the Landfill, including the cost of closure.
The letter continues the process that began in August 2007, when New Ventures initially demanded that the city share in responsibility for cleaning up alleged contamination at the site that existed prior to the company’s purchase of the property.
New Ventures last fall offered to bypass some of the liability if the city entered into an agreement with the company that, in part, would have increased construction and demolition (C&D) fines being trucked to the city.
The fines are a by-product construction and demolition recycling and usually contain sand and dirt, asphalt, brick, gypsum, metals and other material. Typically, the fines are mixed with soil before being used on a landfill.
City Councilor Tom Jones said this week that the city now has to defend: one, any illegality and two, the common sense of decisions made in 1984, the time when the city allegedly dumped toxic waste at the site. Jones added that there were no odor complaints before New Ventures brought 500,000 cubic yards of construction and demolition fines to the landfill.
The odor is apparently related to the release of hydrogen sulfide, a gas created when the C&D materials decompose. New Ventures is supposed to maintain a gas extraction system on the dump.
Jones also doubts the $10 million figure New Ventures is claiming it could spend on closing the landfill. The C&D fines are processed at another company owned by New Ventures Thibeault, Wood Waste of Boston in Everett, and were trucked to Newburyport before the last in a series of cease and desist orders by the city.
Wood Waste has, or will, enter into an agreement with the City of Everett to process and ship all C&D materials at its site there on a weekly basis, since, as the agreement read in late December, there is litigation pending in Suffolk Superior Court that is intended to resolve this legal question in 2008 or in early 2009.
The legal question is whether Newburyport is refusing to authorize an increase in the amount of C&D material coming to the landfill. The agreement also reads that neither the federal government nor the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has adopted a standard for the level of hydrogen sulfide discharged to the atmosphere to have a negative public health impact, and the parties desire to avoid the time and expense associated with litigation.
Finding little or no support in the City Council for an agreement that benefits New Ventures over Newburyport and taking heart from a contempt suit filed by the Commonwealth against New Ventures, Mayor John Moak on Dec. 8 pulled the draft agreement from the council’s agenda.
The state Attorney General’s office had requested the contempt hearing be expedited to prevent ongoing harm to the public and environment, but the motion was denied. The hearing will continue as scheduled, on April 23 and 23, in Suffolk Superior Court.
The underlying complaint for this action was filed on Feb. 23, 2006, and a preliminary injunction was filed in October 2006. The contempt complaint, citing multiple violations of the preliminary injunction, was filed Nov. 14, 2008.
The preliminary injunction relates to the ongoing maintenance obligations, including maintaining the system that prevents noxious odors and leachate escaping into the environment at and around the Crow Lane landfill and not to the schedule for capping and closing the landfill.
The Jan. 7, 8-page letter from the law firm McRoberts & Roberts, L.L.P., specifically asks the City of Newburyport to:
1. Reimburse the company for 90 percent of all costs incurred to date, to cap the landfill and control the release of hazardous materials into the environment. Those costs could total $10 million.
2. Contribute 90 percent of all ongoing costs to undertake any and all future response actions necessary to prevent hazardous materials from escaping into the environment and to remove contaminated soil.
3. Indemnify and defend New Ventures from 90 percent of any and all liability associated with the hazardous materials that exist on the landfill, including third-party claims and natural resource damage claims.
4. Reimburse the reasonable response costs associated with services provided by legal counsel and the licensed site professional hired by New Ventures.
New Ventures is also demanding all documents related to the landfill prior to the time it purchased the 14-acre property, in 2000.
This man is a total scumbag. Isn’t the suffering he caused enough to the people of Newburyport? What does this mean for Everett, especially if he does not get his way?
The city of Everett can be in big trouble with this scum. Won’t the old city yards be in the same situation? I would say if he does not get is way………. he will most definitely seek reimbursement from Everett on any cleanup there. That’s the way he operates.
I suspect that Fourth Street deal will one day bite the city in the butt and I knew it was wrong. It was probably in our best interest to void the P&S and invest a little money into getting rid of him.
It’s very sad that we have some Zombies in a trance at the City Council, and they believe everything that they are told with respect to this business, what his intention for Everett is, and his relationship with the Mayor.
If he would use 9/11 to his advantage, he will use anything or anyone!
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everett sq
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Posted - 01/20/2009 : 11:34:08 PM
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| ...William Thibeault has Lynnfield house listed with Northrup Associates in Lynnfield which is owned by former State Senator Richard Tisei and the listing agent Maureen Rossi works in the Peabody Court House ( any realtion to Anthony Rossi?), how does that happen when he has a contempt case w/DA Coakley pending? Conflict of interest?? |
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everett sq
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Posted - 01/20/2009 : 11:36:45 PM
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| ...William Thibeault has Lynnfield house listed with Northrup Associates in Lynnfield which is owned by former State Senator Richard Tisei and the listing agent Maureen Rossi works in the Peabody Court House ( any realtion to Anthony Rossi?), how does that happen when he has a contempt case w/DA Coakley pending? Conflict of interest?? |
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Wildfire132
Member
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Posted - 01/21/2009 : 10:07:05 AM
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| There's alot of fear and mistrust here on this issue and I understand the justification for it. It's frustrating to oppose an issue and find your powerless to do anything about it. No one in the City of Everett invited Thibeault or his company here, but we're stuck with him. You can make him feel as unwelcome as humanly possible and he'll dig in just to spite us. A couple of facts: When they talk about redeveloping land adjacent to the parkway, it's not just limited to his existing site and the old city yards. He's purchased adjoining deep into Chelsea and has already cleaned those sites up. Any developer with big plans and deep pockets is going to find that remediated property with close proximaty to residential Everett & Chelsea much more attractive than lower Broadway (Route 99). The property on lower Broadway is already an industrial zoned area and has not been cleaned up in any way or form (remember Modern Continental was dumping Big Dig waste there for years and of course there's Monsanto). No materials will go to lower Broadway until the permenant structure is built. The smells and dust will be contained and unnoticeble. As far as trucking goes, the materials are already coming into the city and that won't stop. Just where it goes. This is not a new issue. Some of us on Chelsea Street have been waiting for the day when Wood Waste moves away from us. |
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Tails
Administrator
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Posted - 01/21/2009 : 10:24:39 AM
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People are upset and rightfully so. It's disturbing when issues are brought up at the city council, and the Mayor is no where to be found, but the second Wood Waste is mentioned.....BAM...he's standing at the podium unannounced and not asked to come up, all in defense to Wood Waste, practically pushing people out of the way.
He's been screaming over this matter at people, screaming at the Alderman and he charged into the Leader Herald over an article. For crying out loud, that's not proper behavior. He's his own worse enemy.
No one is blaming him for Wood Waste being here, they are blaming him for how he is handling the situation. He takes is WAY too personal and leaves suspicion in people's minds.
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Cruller DaVille
Senior Member
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Posted - 01/21/2009 : 3:29:37 PM
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"Show me who your friends are....I'll tell you what you are........"
"Cruller DaHville"
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massdee
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Posted - 01/22/2009 : 10:05:44 PM
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You must be logged in to see this link.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
More mayhem
This is from today's Daily News:
Another bad week for landfill neighbors
NEWBURYPORT — After more than a dozen odor complaints were filed by neighbors to the Crow Lane landfill over the weekend, the smell is finally gone.
Abutters to the landfill sent out mass e-mails to other neighbors, city and state officials, and members of the local press, reporting itchy, burning eyes, sore throats, scratchy throats, sinus infections, headaches and nausea.
The odor, which smells like rotten eggs or burnt matches, comes from hydrogen sulfide, and it has plagued the neighbors of the landfill for the past half decade.
A flare remains lit at the site to burn away odor-causing gas, but it wasn't working properly, Mayor John Moak said yesterday. It has been fixed.
"The flare was not running at the proper temperature," Moak said.
I talked to the mayor yesterday about this very matter (see my full story in tomorow's Current). |
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Tails
Administrator
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Posted - 01/22/2009 : 10:32:32 PM
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Wood Waste has these same smells and same medical issues of burning eyes, sore throats headaches, and on and on.
How on earth is our Board of Health going to handle this? In the words of Stephen Simonelli (which is true) "It aint gonna happen" What are they gonna do, go and smell the piles with their noses? What a dumb thing to have an agreement and put it all on the Board of Health. I noticed the director had no answers for him.
He was absolutely right, do not let the DEP off the hook and get weekly reports from the DEP to the entire city council. That was the best suggestion that came from the entire Common Council.
Now the million dollar question is......will that make it into the agreement?
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