November 20, 2012 - Salisbury, MD – Wicomico County Executive Rick Pollitt will be hosting a community meeting at 7pm on Tuesday, November 27 regarding the status of the Fruitland/Allen Transfer Station on Walnut Tree Road. Executive Pollitt has been able to delay the loss of service for users of the transfer station through a Temporary License Agreement while an aggressive search is underway to locate an acceptable permanent site. The agreement grants use of the property until February 28, 2013. Executive Pollitt is determined to make this temporary extension of service as non-intrusive on the neighborhood as possible and encourages nearby residents to attend the meeting and work with him toward that goal.
Who: County Executive Pollitt, employees from the Department of Public Works
What: Community meeting with residents who utilize the Fruitland/Allen Transfer Station
When: Tuesday, November 27th at 7pm
Where: The Winfield Center, Fruitland
At the corner of Allen Cut-Off Road and Camden Avenue
11 comments:
What neighborhood?There is nothing out there.
People in the area are complaining about trucks in and out of the new dump. However when it was privately owned trucks were in and out of there all the time. They use make and sell compost there. It is an ideal place for a transfer station.
Seems to me the new home owners should have researched what was on the property prior to the transfer station. If I were the current owner I would start farming it again and reapplying the egg shells like they used to. Ask some of the older area residents what that smelled like then you would not be so harsh against the transfer station.
As far as the county is concerned, its the same old same old. WHy did they not have a public hearing on it BEFORE they agreed to it and went and spent all that money to set everything up just to have it slammed down with opposition at hte council meeting and have to move it all again. Now the current owners have probably made plans that all have to be thrown in the trash as well. We can spend millions on school property and a parking lot for the civic center but cant spend 200K for a transfer station that has ample room to expand recycling in the future.
It does not matter where you put it someone is going to be mad because "it's in my back yard".
I vote leave it where they just installed it and i live within a mile of it.
Dust can be controlled with stone and irrigation. Noise can be controlled with trees.
Well said and agreed
Somerset County transfer station is not all that far from the proposed location. Why can't wicomico residents simply take it to Somerset County. That seems to be the obvious answer to everyones concerns.
The somerset county transfer station is within a stones throw for the Allen Road residents.
Check it out - 29012 Mt. Vernon Road Princess Anne, MD 21853
Everything is already set-up to service the southern wicomico county residents.
Responding to 6:50 comment
I agree - Allen road, to Polks road, New road, Mt. Vernon road, and you are there. Not very far at all from Walnut Tree Road/Allen Road transfer station location.
So what I want to know is why did the existing transfer station down on the dirt portion of Walnut Tree close up? Was it leased to begin with and the lease expire? It has been there since I was a kid.
To 6:59 & 7:38 Posting
Strategically speaking, it would benefit Wicomico's southern residents to take their trash to the Somerset Mt. Vernon location.
But from a Somerset residence perspective - it might not bode very well to have Wicomico countians taking their trash to a Somerset county facility - if you know what I mean.
Response to 8:59 Comment;
'It might not bode very well to have Wicomico countians taking their trash to Somerset county facility'
My reply - well then, why is it fair for Somerset County to be dropping off their ex-cons (ECI) in the middle of Salisbury and yet it is unfair to haul a little trash to a Somerset County transfer station.
Ahhhh a trash exchange program.
I did not think residents of one county were allowed to go to another county to dispose of trash
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