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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 →

Videos: SPLOST VII Resolution and mystery proclamation and appointment @ LCC 2013-09-09


Charlie Clark
The big surprise in the eleven-minute meeting
was they called up former
County Engineer Charlie Clark to explain the Utility Director’s
comment about making a profit on wastewater to Lake Park Elementary School.
Yes,

the SPLOST VII Resolution is to put it on the ballot in November,
“to reimpose the tax”.
So much for those

town halls that never happened.
Yep, it’s Mac McCall for

reappointment to ZBOA.

No Proclamation this morning, so
it could still be for

South Georgia Pride
like

Valdosta Mayor John Gayle refused to proclaim last year.
And they vote tomorrow night at 5:30 PM.

Here’s

the agenda, with links to the videos and a few notes.



LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Aquifer recharge and drainage from Seven Out Superfund site, Mary Street, Waycross, GA

The

Seven Out Superfund site is not in any of the severe aquifer

recharge zones in Ware County, fortunately,


but

drainage from it goes right across Waycross into the Satilla River,
carrying who-knows-what pollution with it.
It’s time to find out what pollution, where it comes from, and

what plume of toxic chemicals it is making underground. Continue reading →

Moody Family Housing is in aquifer recharge zone @ LCC 2013-08-27

The

Moody Family Housing just rezoned is in a recharge zone for



our drinking water supply, the Floridan Aquifer.
What will keep runoff from this subdivision from feeding through
the wetlands and sinkhole into the aquifer?
Should we depend on county engineering, which never put in

the traffic calming measures
required for nearby Nelson Hill, or other county staff,
who gave waivers for other required items there, or just didn’t
require them to be implemented?
What assurances can we get from our county government that Moody Family
Housing won’t pollute our drinking water?


WRPDO Title Alone
The above map is a detail from

Lowndes County’s own
Water Resource Protection Districts
Ordinance (WRPDO) overlay Map.
Here’s an even more detailed view courtesy

VALOR GIS (turn on Streams and Waterbodies, NWI Wetlands, Muncipal Boundaries, and Groundwater Rechard Areas): Continue reading →

Solar Parking Lots

One objection I’ve heard to solar power in Georgia is that it would
take an area the size of metro Atlanta to power metro Atlanta.
Well, why not use metro Atlanta do do that?
Put solar panels on housetops and business rooftops.
And use parking lots:


Lin Edwards writes in physorg.com about

Parking lots could become ‘solar groves’ (w/ Video):

Architect Robert Noble, who specializes in sustainable design has come up with the idea of turning parking lots into “solar groves” that shade the vehicles, generate electricity, and serve as recharging stations for electric vehicles.

Or forget Atlanta. Hahira or Valdosta could do this just as easily.

-jsq