Some say, do you smell that, that's money. Others are simply looking around for a barf bag.
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Sunday, September 06, 2015
Perdue In Downtown Salisbury Is Stinking Up The Entire City
Some say, do you smell that, that's money. Others are simply looking around for a barf bag.
And not a damn thing can be done about it.
ReplyDeleteHey jake day will you fine your Father and Perdue???
ReplyDeleteAnd its been that way for decades.
ReplyDelete...that's how it's always been. And with Jake as Mayor, nothing will change. Good thing his Daddy paid off the local bloggers and political opponents to make sure Jakey ran unchallenged.
ReplyDeleteIs this jane Ireton.?
Delete8:45, REALLY, I was paid off by the Day Family, LMAO! Some of you people are just plain stupid.
ReplyDeleteIt's the come heres that complain the most. They buy homes in developments that were once farms and have farm land around them to be "in the country". As soon as manure is put in the fields, that get up in arms about the smell. They drive by Perdue and have a hissy fit for the few minutes they smell an odor. Ever been to NYC in the summer on a trash day or been in the subway on a hot summer day? Smells as bad if not worse.
ReplyDeleteJust because it's always been that way... I hate that answer. So what, things can also be changed, why can't that? Afraid to deal with the Perdue's? So what if it's been like that for decades. Is it right? NO. A company like that should not be right in town to stink up everything around.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that smells worse than a chicken plant is liberal b.s.
ReplyDeleteHow many people does the downtown Perdue plant employ? And are they all legally here?
ReplyDeleteI'm more concerned with the hundreds of gallons of bloody of water that pours out of the refrigerator trucks every day into the river as the trucks go up the hill at the Route 50 drawbridge.
ReplyDeleteAnd ends up in the river.
DeletePerdue was here long before all the transformation. The city knew the consequences.
ReplyDeleteRun Perdue out, and take the jobs away from half the people on that side of town.
I love it. The City Is ONE BIG MESS! Yeah it smells, but they knew it.
Wake up People!
And the thugs will leave the bury also.
Deletenever knew their was a hill at the rt 50 drawbridge never knew their was a hill in oc
ReplyDeleteIdiot. What's the hill and bridge at 50 & Mill St?
DeletePerdue will correct the issue...they have been there for years (1968) and have always corrected any issues.
ReplyDeleteCorrecting hiring sex offenders?
DeleteThey have to work to. Nothing wrong with it.
DeleteWhat do you people want? Perdue can close the plant..how many will be added to the rolls of the unemployed?
DeleteIt is an uphill grade in either direction on Rt. 50 from the drawbridge. Slight grade headed west and more pronounced headed east. Get out of your vehicle, stand on the bridge and look in both directions.
ReplyDeleteThey can install filters, like the chemical plants have too!
ReplyDeleteIt's Jim's cash cow!
ReplyDeleteYou're a moron. That plant is not a cash cow. It's the smallest plant and only produces ice pack. Jim could close it and the company would never feel the impact.
DeleteMaybe it's all the filth called Downtown!
ReplyDeleteIt's a poultry plant!! They all smell.
ReplyDeleteIt is a badly needed employer in a town and county that desperately needs employment. It's downtown by the river that is already polluted by an over taxed sewage waste. So they should be left alone.
"Anonymous said...
ReplyDeletePerdue was here long before all the transformation. The city knew the consequences.
Run Perdue out, and take the jobs away from half the people on that side of town.
I love it. The City Is ONE BIG MESS! Yeah it smells, but they knew it.
Wake up People!
September 3, 2015 at 10:03 AM"
Actually if this were to happen the city would probably begin to overcome the poverty and blight and the tax payers would save money. Those people working in the plant make next to nothing so the tax payers are supplementing their income in the form of entitlements. Hardly any can afford to buy homes, which then caused every single home in Salisbury to decrease in value.
Perdue may have been here for a long time, but the problem began when Big Food conspired with the government to run out all the smaller processors by implementing regulations and high fees.
By forcing out the competition the unskilled employees were left with no choice where to work and this is what causes the low stagnant wages.
It's not so cut and dry and you have to look at the big picture as there are staggering hidden costs that the tax payers are saddled with because of these low paying jobs.
Perdue has the higest water bill in Salisbury. I can only imagine how much our taxes would be if they moved out of the city.
DeleteI would rather have a high bill than a stinking factory that hires criminals.
Delete10:03..what a load of crap. Joe why do you publish this liberal garbage?
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ReplyDeleteThe hill is at the Route 50 drawbridge in Salisbury, over the Wicomico River, not at the OC bridge. The bloody mess goes right into the river, every day.
So would you rather they take the business out of the City?
ReplyDeleteThey used to complain about the soot in Pittsburgh from the steel mills. They wish they still had those mills today.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Wash Post 1999-
ReplyDelete" The letter from the City of Salisbury to Perdue Farms Inc. began, "NOTICE OF VIOLATION." Once again, the company's slaughterhouse had piped too much pollution into the city's waste water treatment plant.
Stop the violations, the city warned, "or further enforcement action will be pursued." But Perdue's offenses continued. And, despite those tough words written nearly two years ago, the city has never sought a penny in fines from the company, the largest poultry producer on the chicken-dense peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. From February 1995 through April 1999, Perdue exceeded environmental limits at least 157 times, sometimes dumping double or triple the pollution it should have into the Salisbury, Md., treatment system, according to records obtained by The Washington Post."
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ReplyDeletePerdue has the higest water bill in Salisbury. I can only imagine how much our taxes would be if they moved out of the city.
September 3, 2015 at 2:00 PM"
When you have a company that uses so much water the systems have to be designed and built to accommodate that enormous amount of water being used. This comes with huge added costs to the tax payers. Same goes for waste water. If they left rates would probably have to increase but this because the systems were over built for them.
I've lived here for 40 years and as far as I know it's been like that . It's a smell that myself and others have learned to live with.
ReplyDeleteFor the ones that complain if you find a different route you can avoid this , so just do it , it does not stink up the whole city as implied.
Yeah, lets drive the largest company left in the area out. We don't need no stinking jobs around here. Pun intended.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that a chicken plant is in downtown Salisbury it really needs to be moved.
ReplyDelete823- I have a better idea, why don't you get the heck out of this community, you are not wanted in the least. I would rather have a chicken house next door than you for a neighbor.
DeleteNicely said!
Delete8:40 it smells like chickens all downtown. They have to work but we do not have to smell it. There really has to be a way to clean it up a little. I totally agree they employee a lot of people. It just smells rotten. Its like having a pulp wood plant but worse.
ReplyDelete102. Why did you move here? Leave!
DeleteThis area is now and has always been agricultural community. Like other things (words for example) the smell is only offensive to those who WANT it to be offensive and/or have an agenda to be served by claiming it to be offensive. Any farmer or waterman will tell you that NO smell is offensive, just one smell among many ( like perfume) that lets you identify your environment.
ReplyDeletewhy do my senses have to be raped just so purdue can put another dollar in his pocket? same for his raping of the river and environment all for another dollar and future generations are screwed! way to go jimmy!
ReplyDeleteHere we go again...the socialists love to use words like "rape' and "screw " to describe capitalism.
DeleteYes 704 by all means, please go back where you came from, we don't want you here. We do want the only business we have left though, so please, move to the city where stupid people like you belong.
DeleteYou can always move to another city and complain about the smells there. Try New York. Plenty of smells there.
ReplyDeleteNothing new. The locals are used to it.
ReplyDeleteI have to laugh. You all cry for jobs, want to figure out how to bring back manufacturing jobs, but god forbid the air stinks. I am soooooo glad I left the crap hole known as "the 'bury".
ReplyDeletedon't mess with these chicken worshippers lol
ReplyDelete107 are you trolling? Well I will bite, what do you do for a living? Please tell me , no details, just a general idea
DeleteThere was a McDonalds across the street from that plant and the smell never stopped anyone form eating there back in the day. It moved to rt 349 after the bypass diverted all the summer traffic away.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like Jim Ireton looking for ways to make it look like he was the city's savior and now suddenly things will get worse without him... we all know better, Jimmy boy!
ReplyDeleteThe city needs to level everything from the Fitzwater st to rt 50.
ReplyDeletePerdue!!
ReplyDeleteMost of the complainers on here still eat chicken.How do you expect the world to produce enough chicken for everyone with no smell or plants.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete107 are you trolling? Well I will bite, what do you do for a living? Please tell me , no details, just a general idea
September 6, 2015 at 2:24 PM
retired tyvm
Perdue will eventually pick up and move from Salisbury and from Maryland for more favorable areas like the Carolinas. When they do, you will first have a stinking, close chicken plant that will fall into disrepair. Eventually the plant will be razed along with all the ghetto housing and maybe that area will experience a renaissance. I am sure the Cannons and the Gillis/Gilkersons are holding their breath so they can cash in some more. Will there be a loss of jobs? Yes. As one of the other posters indicated, these jobs do not pay a living wage and attract certain segments of the population such as criminals and illegals. Really, why do we still have an industrial area right in the middle of our downtown. Ever been to Johnstown, PA? It reeks. Welcome to Salisbury!
ReplyDeletethey don't have to move out of state, just relocate to a less populated area. ever hear of quality of life?
ReplyDeleteWhen you become the next President of Perdue, you can decide where the plants are and will be, until then go back to deciding on whether to eat at Olive Garden or Red Lobster tonight.
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