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GA Supreme Court rules against Deep South Sanitation: DSS vows to keep going



Lowndes County suing a local business with our tax dollars
has produced a preliminary Georgia Supreme
Court ruling overturning the appeals court and favoring
the county’s “exclusive franchise” with ADS, a company owned
by New York City investors.
Local company Deep South Sanitation vows to keep going.

Do you think this lawsuit is a good use of your tax dollars?
What will you think if ADS’ rates go up from Veolia’s bid of $13.05/month
($156.60/year) just before ADS bought Veolia,
to ADS’s bid of $13.39/month ($220.68/year)? Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Local company trashed County Commission lawsuit



According to

Deep South Sanitation’s facebook page today,
DSS won

the court case brought against them by the Lowndes County Commission.

So how much money did the

alleged County Attorney
spend sueing a local company to benefit ADS investors in New York City?
The County Commission was very concerned recently about

how much the Sheriff and the Coroner spent
(which
the Sheriff
and

the Coroner
ably rebutted).
Why isn’t the Commission as concerned about spending money on a
completely unnecessary lawsuit that they started?
Why do they let that same attorney

set prices for purchase orders?



That

exclusive franchise with ADS: not so exclusive anymore, is it?

Will ADS sue the county, as many people rumored was the Commission’s
greatest fear?

Will the county now have to pay DSS’s attorney fees?
As a taxpayer I don’t like the idea of wasting more of my tax dollars
on that lawsuit, so maybe they could take it out of the fees or
salaries of whoever recommended and approved that lawsuit.



Maybe somebody down at the county should

“check our work”.

-jsq

Next Deep South Sanitation court date: 25 Nov 2013



According to Deep South Sanitation, their next court date is
Monday 25 November 2013 at 9:30 AM, presumably at the

Lowndes County Judicial Complex, 327 N. Ashley Street, Valdosta, GA 31601.
The longer you drag this out, Lowndes County, the more
good press DSS gets out of it.
DSS reports 25 new customers for the fourth quarter,

providing $125 to Lake Park Elementary School.

Oh yes, the
alleged county attorney spending our tax dollars to sue Deep South Sanitation
was the attorney for
many of the cities that sued about LOST
and just

lost before the Georgia Supreme Court,
resulting in many cities and counties

scurrying around to make rapid agreements,
including

Lowndes County
and
Valdosta.

-jsq

No contracts for tenants of Leila Ellis Building @ LCC 2013-10-07



Two, four, six, many:
that’s how Lowndes County counts tenants.
It’s great the county is providing space for organizations
that help the needy,
but it’s kind of curious that the county didn’t seem to know
who or how many organizations were using the Leila Ellis building,
and had no lease agreement with them.
Not to mention it took twenty questions from Commissioners to get
staff to admit that lack of contracts,
at Monday morning’s

Lowndes County Commission Work Session.

6.b. Leila Ellis Building-Available Space

Kind of like they have

no contract with the alleged county attorney.

Chad McCleod at one point said
two organizations are currently in the building,
LAMP and Cash Prosperity.
He said the County let LAMP use it, and LAMP let Cash Prosperity use it.

In response to a question from Commissioner DeMarcus Marshall,
County Manager Joe Pritchard said under normal circumstances
any organization would need to come to the Commission to ask for space.
They currently have more applicants than space.

Commissioner Crawford Powell wanted to know if the county was going
to set up guidelines for who could lease.
Pritchard said they could, and they couldn’t lease to a private business.

Commissioner Richard Raines wanted to know if annual leases were the practice
of this board.
Pritchard, not actually answering the question asked,
said “That would be my suggestion.”




JoTaryla Thomas
came up to speak for Continue reading →

From Seven Out in Waycross to CSX to Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County

CSX was involved directly in the

Seven Out contamination,
storing hazardous water that leaked:
and then that water was apparently shipped to the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County.
This is in addition to the

the CSX trichloroethylene groundwater contamination dating back to 2000 and earlier.

According to a letter from Georgia Department of Natural Resources
to BCX, Inc. of 20 July 2004,

EPA Identification Number: GAR000030007,


  1. Twenty-seven tanks of wastewater were stored at the facility.
    Four portable tanks were storing the excess capacity of wastewater next door
    on property owned by CSX Transportation.
    These portable 10,000-gallon tanks were not labeled to indicate their contents;
  2. According to a BCX representative, one of the portable 10,000-gallon tanks
    had a gasket failure on the forward manhole which caused the release of an
    unknown substance onto the ground at the site owned by CSX
    Transportation;
  3. Dead vegetation was observed in a 15 feet by 30 feet area downgradient of the
    tank that caused the release;
  4. A yellowish-green substance was observed on the ground between the portable
    tank that had the release and another portable tank adjacent to it. There was
    also dead vegetation observed between these two tanks; and

And GA EPD tested the soil and found something the document doesn’t
specify, but whatever it was was enough that: Continue reading →

Cash for Trash –Deep South Sanitation



The longer you drag on

that lawsuit,
Lowndes County Commission,
about your bogus

exclusive franchise
that benefits nobody but

ADS investors in New York City,
the more good PR local company DSS gets.
We could use

better than trash government around here.

Advertisement by Deep South Sanitation in the VDT yesterday: Continue reading →

Landfill is in aquifer recharge zone

In a recharge zone for

our drinking water supply, the Floridan Aquifer,
is the Pecan Row Landfill




with its

PCBs and

coal ash.
That proposed

landfill pipeline requiring cutting through the vegetative buffer
along an unnamed tributary to Spring Branch?
Also at least partly in the recharge zone. Continue reading →

Landfill pipeline



Apparently

ADS’s landfill gas project
wants to take in methane from the closed old landfill, as well,
according to a public notice today that proposes
a pipeline from the old

Evergreen Landfill
to the

Pecan Row Landfill that has the natural gas turbine.

Nevermind
the

$27,500 fine for PCBs or
that

coal ash in the landfill that nobody on the Lowndes County Commission
or Valdosta City Council or Deep South Solid Waste Authority (SWA) can be bothered to check on.
Nevermind the

unaccounted for tipping fees
or
host fees.
I wonder if cutting through that vegetative buffer will let the coal ash and PCBs reach the Withlacoochee River more easily?


Location of proposed pipeline from Evergreen Landfill to Pecan Row Landfill

The yellow path indicated for the pipeline is just a guess.

In the VDT today,

PUBLIC ADVISORY NOTICE,

The proposed project located west of Valdosta, in Lowndes County, GA
along Wetherington Lane near the Pecan Row Landfill facility (2995
Wetherington Lane, Valdosta, GA, 31601) involves buffer
encroachments necessary to install a 30-inch gas pipeline. This
pipeline will Continue reading →