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Videos: budget, baords, and approvals @ LCC 2014-06-24



None of the appointees spoke, but all were appointed unanimously,
and they unanimously approved

a landfill expansion item without ever seeing a site plan.
Ray Devery and Barry Barr to the

Library Board,
Sheila Wakeley to the

South Georgia Community Service Board,
and
John Sineath to the

Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals,
even though Valdosta’s web page says he’s a city appointee.

They also unanimously approved everything else: a

grant for help getting a grant,
re-evaluation of

all rural agricultural tax assessments,
the annual

mosquito testing contract with VSU,
and the

landfill public hearing clarification item
about the hearing of the

public notice already posted for 17 July 2014.

Here’s
the agenda, with some notes, and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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Videos: 5 board appointments, budget, and 4 For Approval @ LCC 2014-06-23



The county’s

response to the weekend storms (straight-line event, not tornado)
was less confused than its proposed board appointments.
They vote Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM, including on the
budget.

Likely return of Ray Devery to the

Library Board as Chairman,
and reappointment of Barry Barr.
Sheila Wakeley for the

South Georgia Community Service Board,
but even the Commissioners had no bio for her.
John Sineath for

Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals,
even though Valdosta’s web page says he’s a city appointee.
None of the applicants spoke.

A

grant for help getting a grant,
re-evaluation of

all rural agricultural tax assessments,
the annual

mosquito testing contract with VSU,
and the

landfill public hearing clarification item
apparently is about the hearing of the

public notice already posted for 17 July 2014.

Here’s
the agenda, with some notes, and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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5 board appointments, budget, 4 For Approval incl. Landfill @ LCC 2014-06-23



The second and last

Budget Hearing is 5PM Tuesday 24 June 2014, just before the Regular Session.

But first, at
the Monday morning Work and Tuesday evening Regular Sessions,
4 appointments to 3 boards,
and four obscure For Consideration items about a grant,
a schedule,
a contract,
and a landfill public hearing that may or may not be the one of the

public notice already posted for 17 July 2014.

Here’s
the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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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


300x273 0058 002B Veolia ES Evergreen Landfill Inc., in Evergreen Landfill, by John S. Quarterman, for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), 20 June 2014
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

00073850

6/13/14

Here’s

the law the public notice cites: Continue reading →

Two arrest warrants issued for $1 mllion landfill scam

Interesting things sometimes turn up when a landfill is investigated.

Taylor West wrote for the AJC 5 June 2014,

Police: Arrest warrants issued in connection with $1 million scam,


Robert Stevens (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office)
Multiple arrest warrants have been issued in relation to a trail of
criminal activity resulting in the theft of more than $1 million
from a Fulton County business, authorities said.

Police began an investigation in mid-April when Waste Management
Inc. made a complaint regarding Willow Oak Landfill, which it owns,
following an anonymous tip and a private investigation, according to
the Palmetto Police Department today.

In this case it was the landfill operator that filed a complaint.
Waste Management is one of the two largest solid waste companies
in the U.S.; the other is ADS.

The complaint alleged Continue reading →

VDT has selective smell



To the VDT the county government always smells like azaleas
and the city of Valdosta government always smells like sewage.
The local newspaper of record doesn’t seem to smell sewage
or landfill problems from Lowndes County.
Today’s VDT editorial complains about
environmental groups paying attention to “theoretical disasters”
(presumably referring to the Sabal Trail pipeline),
yet the VDT has never covered the group that has
most consistently followed the watershed-wide
flooding issues that cause Valdosta’s flooding problems:
WWALS Watershed Coalition.
The VDT recommends citizens get more involved
in sniffing out Valdosta’s sewage problems, yet it doesn’t seem
to cover Citizens Wishing To Be Heard anymore, nor has the VDT called
for the citizen participation sessions promised by
the local governments for the Army Corps of Engineers flooding studies.
Maybe the VDT could encourage citizen participation, rather than ignore it.

VDT editorial today,

It just plain stinks, Continue reading →

How to invite toxic industries to your county



Maybe we should stop inviting toxic industries to Lowndes County.
We’ve been doing that with coal ash, PCBs, superfund wastewater,
used diapers in recycling, and suing local businesses while not terminating
an exclusive franchise with a company that is involved in all of that.
Not to mention Sterling Chemical.



Here in Lowndes County we have

TVA coal ash and Florida coal ash
in our landfill,
and the landfill operator spreads the coal ash on roads on the site,
which is just uphill from the Withlacoochee River.

GA EPD
fined that landfill operator $27,500 in January 2013

for accepting PCBs into that same Pecan Row Landfill.
The same landfill that accepted

196,500 gallons of wastewater from the
Seven Out Superfund site in Waycross, GA.

A landfill that is

in an aquifer recharge zone. 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 →

U.S. EPA, GA DNR, GA Health Dept., and landfill in Lowndes County @ EPA 2013-11-14



At the

EPA meeting in Waycross about the Seven Out Superfund site,
EPA, GA EPD, and state health officials also had information about
crossover contamination in Lowndes County.




Matthew J. Huyser, On-Scene Coordinator for U.S. EPA,
told me that before

EPA shipped those 196,500 gallons of wastewater from Seven Out to the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County
they had applied procedures that were supposed to ensure those liquids
were no longer toxic and had tested them to be sure.
He said he would send me the specifics on that.
I didn’t ask him whether

CSX toxic wastes were shipped to Lowndes County.



Huyser also said EPA had checked the record of that receiving landfill
before sending anything there, and it had a good record.
He seemed surprised to learn Continue reading →

GA EPD Hazardous site 10645: Brooks County, Piscola Creek, Withlacoochee River

Brooks County has a hazardous waste site:
a closed landfill a few miles southeast of Quitman,
about a mile from Piscola Creek,
and less than four miles from the Withlacoochee River.


parcel 0096 0003 Brooks County Georgia

This Georgia EPD Hazardous site 10645 on Johson Short Road and
SR 333 (also known as Washington Street and Madison Highway)

Map: Quitman SR 333 GA EPD Landfill Hazardous Site 10645
was presumably why we find this Continue reading →