TgHIS IS A POST FROM NEXTSTORE .COM RE: THE DUMPING OF THE COFFEY FIRE CLEANUP AT MEECHAM ROCK QUARRY. IT BEARS ATTENTION AND AWARENESS, THOUGHT, DISCUSSION, DECISION MAKING, ACTION along with so much else these days . . . . .
Gailene Elliott, Dunham
Toxic dumping at Stony Point Rock Quarry and Meacham Transfer Station
Hi neighbors! I’m fairly new to this website. Is anyone concerned about the HUGE amount of toxic concrete and other toxic garbage that is coming out of the site removal from the fires that we had a few months ago? FYI they would not let any of the homeowners back in the Santa Rosa Coffey area without proper hazmat clothing for weeks, now they’re bringing it all here in wide open dump trucks that line up, hundreds of them every day, to dump it all at Stony Point Rock Quarry and the transfer station on Meacham. I’m sure most of you have seen the dust and dirt all over the road on Stony Point Rd every day. I can see it on my car soon after I wash it!
This extremely toxic dust is floating down onto the grass where hundreds and hundreds of certified organic cows are grazing! Which will turn into “organic “ grass fed beef that you’ll pay a pretty price for!! And this very fine toxic dust is flowing onto the hundreds of acres of Gallo vineyards nearby. So what’s going to happen to that toxic concrete? Are they going to crush it at the rock quarry and make even more toxic (Asbestos-filled) dust and make it into more concrete to sell and use?
As a child, I lived about 3/4 of a mile from a cement plant where they make cement... just regular cement. We would see the dust on our just washed cars, feel it occasionally on our teeth as we played baseball, saw it and washed it off of every vegetable in our garden, not to mention our chickens, cows, goats, and horses eating that fine cement dusted grass. I know for a fact that as a result of living there, my sister and brother (and an inordinate amount of my neighbors) died of cancer. As a result, many of them won a class action lawsuit. But that didn’t bring my brother and sister or neighbors back.
NOW, My husband informs me that houses built before 1979 (which most of these were in the Santa Rosa Coffey park area) had asbestos in the cement foundation, the siding, flooring, plaster, linoleum, etc. etc.!!!! It was outlawed in 1979...
In conclusion...... I’m wondering who if anyone else is concerned? If anyone else is concerned? How careful are they about dealing with this extremely toxic matter? Not careful enough as I’m driving through that shit every day!!! Thoughts?