[StBernard] Cleanup celebrity defends planned St. Bernard transfer station

[Westley Annis]

we now have options. We have choices as to how the Marina could be.  SDT is
the one applying for a landuse change and we can pressure the administration
to enforce our current codes and bring the other businesses into compliance
and more importantly continue the efforts of the Paris Road corridor
business owners who returned to restore St Bernard Parish to higher
standards.  what SDT wants to do is not allowed on A1 Rural.  We could deny
this change in zoning and only allow landuses that are more compatible with
the Marina and the wetlands.  SDT will need to apply for new regulatory and
wetlands permits.

there is no such thing as an impermeable fence, levee, nor containment area.
Next high tide with easterly winds, or next storm surge, that land will
flood.  How will the wastes be contained?  

we need assurances there is no asbestos, lead, mercury or other hazardous
wastes being brought into our parish or to a transfer site.

As SDT 's successful business grows, so too the truck traffic for waste and
debris hauled into and out of our parish may grow. The T/P article infers
the current location is already a transfer site for other parishes' hauls.
If this new transfer site is approved, it would be nice to close the truck
yard and dumpster inventory at the Virtue Street location and keep that
where it is not an eye soar to neighborhoods or businesses.  That would give
the Virtue, Fenelon neighborhood the same recovery opportunity that the rest
of us have. 

The contract with SDT and St Bernard Parish and the parish imposed garbage
fee all need to be revisited as most residents were not aware we will be
paying a new garbage fee in exchange for being the regional garbage hub on
the marina.  what is the economic benefit to St Bernard for allowing this
transfer site?

The URG site is totally different, as they are a temporary post Katrina
transfer site for FEMA demolition and storm debris, not household garbage.
The parish owned land at the URG site is not, to my knowledge, permitted due
to the temporary situation and not properly lined for runoff into the bayou.
SDT is currently operating on a portion of that parish land and is not or
should not be hauling demolition nor storm debris there. 

SJK