Saturday, July 12, 2008

annual mitigation fees for dump?

Is it true that, besides the 5.5 million mitigation fee upfront for annexing the 58th street dump, there is also an annual 1.5 million fee? Is the FEC property one of the MOST polluted? Does ANYBODY seriously think the COUNTY would even attempt to make the FEC clean up its proprty? FEC has always had considerable political clout all the way up to Washington. They stopped passenger service over thirty years ago when every OTHER railroad was REQUIRED to carry passengers, as a public service. The money is in the freight-hauling for the railroads, so they just stopped the passenger side, and got it approved. THAT is how much political influence they have. The County will do nothing to make them clean up their land, just cover it up. DERM will run some tests, give it a clean bill of health, and WE will be stuck with the cleanup consequences. They have done it before.

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