Category Archives: Trash

What else you missed: Landfill public hearing 2014-07-17

In Georgia Public Notice for the VDT,
but not on the county’s calendar or website public notice list:

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


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In accordance with Section 12-8-24(d) of the Georgia Comprehensive
Solid Waste Management Act, the Board of Commissioners of Lowndes
County gives notice of a public hearing to be held at 5:30 p.m. on
July 17, 2014, in Chambers of the Board of Commissioners in the
Lowndes County Judicial and Administrative Complex, located at 327
North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia. The purpose of the hearing
is to receive public comments regarding the issuance by the Georgia
Environmental Protection Division of a proposed modification to the
solid waste handling permit for an expansion of the existing
Evergreen Municipal Solid Waste Landfill located off Wetherington
Lane in Lowndes County, Georgia, requested by Advanced Disposal
Services Evergreen Landfill, Inc., for the purpose of modifying the
boundaries and waste disposal capacity of that solid waste handling
facility.

Board of Commissioners of Lowndes County

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6/13/14

Here’s

the law the public notice cites: Continue reading →

Trash problems in another part of the world

Their trash collector quit.
The

other way around also works.


Middlebury, New York



News & Announcements

Attention Residents:

Effective Monday, 5/19/14, Nu-Way Disposal informed the County that
they could no longer honor the terms of their trash and recycling
pickup service with all of the Towns and Villages that they serve in
Wyoming County.

As a result, there will be no trash collection
within the Town of Middlebury and the Village of Wyoming for the
week of May 18 through May 24.

At an emergency meeting Continue reading →

Unnecessary lawsuit against local business in GA Supreme Court today

Why is the Lowndes County Commission spending our tax dollars to sue
a local company for collecting trash, in appeal at the Georgia Supreme Court this morning?
Why not just let Deep South Sanitation compete with

Advanced Disposal Services?
Perhaps we should “stop wasting taxpayer money”,
as

Gretchen said to the Commission a year ago.

From
DSS’s facebook page 5 May 2014,

LOWNDES CO & ADVANCED DISPOSAL VS DEEP SOUTH UPDATE:



Dear Friends of Deep South, we have been notified that a date for
the “APPEAL” has been set for Monday, May 19, 2014 @ 10am to be held
in Atlanta, Ga. before the Supreme Court. The Lowndes County
Attorney along with Advanced Disposal’s Attorney’s will have the
opportunity to argue their case. Our Attorney, Rob Plumb will speak
on behalf of Deep South and for the people. There will not be a
ruling on this day. We will post the results of the Court’s ruling
on our FB page as soon as we receive word.—As always, we thank
all of you for your prayers and support. God Bless America!

And from
DSS’s facebook page yesterday:

Appeals Court Tomorrow Morning @ 10am.



“Thank you” to every one for your thoughts and prayers. Cary and
Trevor just left headed to Atlanta. The appeal will be heard by the
Supreme Court and a ruling should come at a later date. Hopefully,
this will be the end of the lawsuit filed by the County and Advanced
Disposal. We will post any news on our FB page as soon as we get
word from our Attorney. Thanks again, your support means the world
to us.

As Gretchen said

a year ago to the Commissioners who voted for that unnecessary
lawsuit,



I wonder which one of you said “This will really attract
people to start or relocate business in our county when we sue one
of our local business owners.”

If I were considering a business move, I wouldn’t move to a county
that eats its own.

I ask that you drop the lawsuit and stop wasting taxpayer money.
Thank you.

We don’t have to be a county like that.
Let’s change some Commissioners and stop this waste of taxpayer money.

LAKE supports

Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes County Commission District 5.
Please vote tomorrow, Tuesday May 20th.
It’s not a primary: that’s Election Day for this Special Election
for District 5.
Your vote matters.

-jsq

Local elections affect you most: time to vote



It’s time to vote,
today and tomorrow in early voting at
the Board of Elections, 2808 North Oak Street, Valdosta, or
Tuesday May 20th at
your polling place.
Turnout is very low for elections that will affect everyone in Lowndes
County and beyond.

Two of the Lowndes County Commission districts will be decided
May 20th (District 5 is a Special Election and District 2
has only candidates in one party): they will affect your
water, sewer, trash, rezoning, road building, and taxes.
All the Lowndes County School Board elections Continue reading →

Change order, KLVB, and Pipeline @ LCC 2014-04-08




$78,892.56 for an unbid change order for Val Del Road.
The Board of Tax Assessors’

appeal to a Board of Equalizations
decision to grand PCA an unusual depreciation was approved
by the Lowndes County Commission
by a rare split decision, 2 to 1.
Greg Powell of Langdale Industries
appointed to KLVB.
And

Citizen Noll recommended the Commission pass a resolution
or ordinance about the proposed Sabal Trail pipeline.

Three voting Commissioners
(Raines was absent and Page vacated his seat)
unanimously approved
three

rezonings with nobody speaking for or against.
They granted permission to

the Sheriff’s office
and to

Emergency Management
to apply for equipment grants.
There was a

weather report,
and a report on
an animal adoption event the previous weekend.

Here’s the agenda, with links to the videos and a few notes.
See also the videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Defibrilators from Homeland Security @ LCC 2014-04-07



The

KLVB presentation told us up to three states dump in
the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County,
for which the county gets some unspecified amount of tipping fees,
which go to fund KLVB.
An appointment to
KLVB was added to the agenda,
although nobody deigned to reveal who was “that individual that has
requested to serve on that board”.
The

Homeland Security grant application turned out to be for defibrillators.

Here’s
the agenda, with a few annotations and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

AMENDED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Videos: Garbage falling off trucks @ LCC 2014-03-25



If the County Commission hadn’t privatized garbage collection,
Frenchie could have registered his complaint about

garbage falling off trucks
through the new

turnkey government website service once it’s online.
No mention of the

annexation request by the City of Hahira from the Work Session.

Commissioner Powell
noted the three SPLOST VII projects were

“a direct reinvestment into the community of those funds”.
The

road resurfacing of four roads
is actually mostly from a GDOT LMIG grant,
but the other three,
shoulder paving on

Val Del Road
and

Boring Pond Road
and a

bridge replacement on Cat Creek Road
are all from SPLOST VII funds.
Plus

some trucks for Animal Control and

tablets for the Fire Department,
an

alcohol license, and some alphabet-soup agreements,
one of which turned out to be for

a grant for a victim advocate position in the Solicitor General’s office.

Here’s

the agenda.
See also
the previous morning’s Work Session.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Broadband, outsourcing, trash, and fire @ LCC 2014-02-28


The second day of the Commission retreat is finished.
Reporting from location, Gretchen noted:

1PM: BroadBand

Chairman Bill Slaughter has a five year goal of making broadband
available. Some possibility of creating a fibre ring.
He says he’s working with the City of Valdosta.

Well, a year ago in February he said broadband was

“one of the number one issues”,
but in October he said
“we have broadband”,
so it’s anyone’s guess what his opinion will be in a few months.

1:06PM: Outsourcing

Commissioner Crawford Powell wants to outsource more county services.

That’s working so well, after all; see the next note.

1:19PM: Trash evaluation

Continue reading →

The trash problem could be worse: north of Naples



They call it the Triangle of Death because of the cancer clusters.
No, not Waycross: near Naples, Italy,

Jim Yardleyjan wrote for NYTimes 29 January 2014,

A Mafia Legacy Taints the Earth in Southern Italy,

“The environment here is poisoned,” said Dr. Alfredo
Mazza, a cardiologist who documented an alarming rise in local
cancer cases in

a 2004 study published in the British medical journal The Lancet.


“It’s impossible to clean it all up. The
area is too vast.”

He added, “We’re living on top of a bomb.”

Maybe it’s not that bad Continue reading →

ADS included household trash in their recyclded items –Tim Carroll

Personal recollection from Valdosta City Council Tim Carroll received today on

ADS fails to recycle, appeals DSS ruling anyway,
adding detail that wasn’t in the VDT article.



The main problem the City was having with ADS was they included
household trash in their recycled items. Used diapers and other
household products mixed in with recycle materials is not allowed.
The City advised ADS back to this past October of the issue and no
improvements were made. Eventually the city had no choice but to cut
them off. The City is a regional hub for recycle material and proud
to offer the service.



OK, so is that a violation of the county’s

“exclusive franchise”
with ADS?

-jsq