[Kzyxtalk] letter to editor of the Advocate News after waste authority meeting

[Annemarie]

From: Ed Oberweiser


Dear folks,

Here's my reaction to the meeting of the Mendocino Solid Waste Authority 
on July 21. The Advocate/News has already sent me an email thanking me 
for it and promising me it will be published the letter this Thursday.

Ed Oberweiser

The July 21 meeting of the Mendocino Solid Waste Authority to approve
a final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for a proposed Highway 20
waste transfer station was an eye opener.

They expressed disgust at "activists" in California Fish and Wildlife
for sending in comments at the last minute. These addressed flaws in
the EIR for the proposed Highway 20 waste transfer station.

Waste Authority members are the extreme activists trying to ram
through this Highway 20 idiocy. This proposed waste transfer station
will endanger the water supply of hundreds of residences less than a
mile away. It will worsen highway hazards for daily Highway 20 bicycle
commuters like myself.

They were distressed by not having time before the meeting to read and
respond to a 15-page letter Fish and Wildlife sent in that morning.
They rescheduled the meeting for August in Ukiah and didn't take
comments from the people who had traveled to attend the meeting.

However, the public was expected to read an 800-page EIR only
accessible at the Fort Bragg Library, City Hall or on line. It wasn't
written in readily understandable language.

Most people work for a living, have families and can't attend meetings
scheduled during working hours. We're tired of being railroaded by
ill-advised projects without being given enough response time.

Nearby property owners should consider filing a class action lawsuit
against the Waste Authority for polluting their water and destroying
their property's value. I wonder how the Waste Authority activists
will like this activism?