Regarding Tom Jackson’s “Hillsborough Trash Surprise Echoes Here” column (Feb. 19), it is fortunate for the citizens of Pasco County that neither he nor the landfill applicant is responsible for crunching the solid waste disposal numbers in our county.
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I have read with interest all the articles appearing in the Times as it relates to the landfill outside Dade City and have attended a meeting where Carl Roth and John Arnold have spoken. I find Mr. Roth passionate in his point of view and I find Angelo’s Aggregate Materials very lacking in actual engineering information. Mr. Arnold says those of us who live in the area of the proposed landfill and compost center have a “not in my back yard attitude.” Why would we not have that attitude?
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For more than a year, the debate about whether to build a landfill in northeast Pasco County has been filled with familiar campaign tools: bumper stickers, petitions, residents speaking up at government meetings.
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The developers of a controversial proposal to build a landfill near Dade City have given $89,000 in campaign donations to politicos in Pasco County and around the state.
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Angelo’s Aggregate Materials likes to point to a thick layer of clay it would use to line its proposed landfill as evidence of its environmental safeguards for rural east Pasco. The company says less about the thick layer of cash it is using to line the campaign treasuries of public officials at the same time it seeks state and local approval for what could become a 1,000-acre landfill, composting and recycling operation near Florida’s Green Swamp.
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County commissioners finally took bold action and in 1991 built the state-of-the-art “resource recovery” plant in Shady Hills. The idea was to burn garbage to create electricity – enough to light 15,000 homes. The ash would be stored in cells with thick seals to protect the groundwater. The trouble is, the plant is running at capacity, forcing the county to ship excess waste to Osceola County.
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Opposition to a new landfill outside Dade City has often taken a proenvironment stance: Protect our waters, protect the Green Swamp, protect the Withlacoochee River. So readers paid attention when the local chapter of a national environmental group released a letter Tuesday in support of the landfill proposed by Angelo’s Aggregate Materials.
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What does air pollution from ships have to do with garbage incineration? What about the effects of toxins leaching into our water supply, water that we drink and in which we wash our dishes, bath and swim? What about the air pollution from rotting, stinking garbage? What about the waste of land which could be better utilized for recreation and the preservation of some of our county’s natural beauty?
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