Jason Garner: Stink Trucks?

Jason Garnar--

24,000 people drink water from Endicott's Ranney well, which is just 1 mile downstream from where i3 Electronics has been discharging their UNPERMITTED (x2) wastes from an operation started April 2011. These wastes are NOT permitted by their SPDES permit. This land use (commercial waste treatment) requires a Special Use permit, however they never approached the local planning board. Chris Pelto told me "Does Endicott even have a planning board?" WRONG ANSWER. This illegal operation violates state/village zoning laws, as well as the Clean Water Act, but DEC looks the other way, has allowed this as a SECRET 2-year "pilot program" with NO Environmental Impact Statement under SEQRA. Here we are 5-years later and it's still going on.

The Village suffers 240 heavy trucks/week because of this, REALLY foul odors, and threats to our water quality and quantity. 80,000 gallons PER DAY of higly toxic, hazardous waste in UNMARKED trucks, including 10x Super Concentrated Reverse Osmosis Landfill Concentrate from Seneca Meadows, the largest landfill in NY which takes household+industrial waste from 5 states.

The DEC is not helping us. They have NEVER issued the facility any fines or violations despite NUMEROUS leaks, spills, contamination incidents dating back to the 1970s-- 4 Decades! The WORST might be 12,000 gallons/month of HORSE URINE (!!!) from Dr. Reddy's Labs in Middleburgh, trucked in from 2hrs away, which is contaminated with a groundwater contaminant so powerful (MTBE), it was BANNED as a gasoline additive by Gov. Pataki in 2000.

I have been asking you since JULY to weigh in on this issue. You told me you were "interested", but never met with our group.

Debbie Preston LOVES Leachate!

Unfortunately, so does Donna Lupardo, who DID meet with our group, but who evidently has not heard our numerous legal issues raised, and/or does not care that the VoE has an illegal commercial waste dump operating in the downtown shopping district, as she told Bob Joseph this week on WNBF she sees "no problem" with all this, as long is it "doesn't increase".

(Donna lives in Endwell which gets water from Endicott. Maybe with her fat salary she can afford a heavy-duty water filter?)

Maybe even Donna is beholden to the Maines/Matthews and the GB Chamber? Or maybe she's got a piece of the action?

What about you?

Why have you been ignoring our requests for months to meet with Concerned Citizens of Endicott, Jason?

We need you to Weigh In on this critically important issue:


Where do you stand on the "Stink Trucks"?

Let me guess- We need the Jobs?
PLEASE RESPOND. Thanks.


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May you, and all beings
be happy and free from suffering :)
-- ancient Buddhist Prayer (Metta)