From: "Citizens' Environmental Coalition" <cecmike@choiceonemail.com>
Subject: [BAN-Announce] Important Environmental Meeting in Buffalo this Monday!
Date: Saturday, May 10, 2003 2:41 AM

Please consider attending this critical event on Monday!

Concerned Citizens Invite Policymakers and Environmental Officials to Public
Meeting to Discuss Garbage Problems

Citizens call on local law-makers to remove the New York City Garbage from
their neighborhood

Who: The Clinton-Bailey Community Association, a new community group, is
organizing to stop the shipment and storage of municipal waste from New York
City and other municipalities in their neighborhood.

What: Outraged citizens distressed over New York City garbage being hauled
via train into their neighborhood, have invited policymakers, environmental
and health agency staff, and local residents to an open public meeting.  At
the meeting, residents will present their concerns related to garbage being
stored at the SK Rail yard for long periods of time, which has caused a
severe odor nuisance in the Clinton / Bailey community.  Policymakers, along
with environmental and health agency staff have been invited to the meeting,
to talk about their efforts to address this environmental health problem.

When: 7:00pm, Monday, May 12, 2003

Where: United Church of Christ Hall, 1335 Clinton Street (corner of Clinton
Street and Baitz Avenue (Baitz Street entrance)

Want more information?  Take a minute to read this article which appeared in
last week's Buffalo News.

> Garbage to remain in rail yard at least 4 to 6 weeks
>
> By TOM ERNST
> News Staff Reporter
> 5/2/2003
>
> Under the best of circumstances, it will be another four weeks before more
> than 300 shipping containers full of garbage from the New York City area
are
> moved from a Buffalo railroad yard, an assistant to Rep. Jack Quinn,
> R-Hamburg, said Thursday.
>
> Michael Cole, general counsel to Quinn in his Buffalo office, participated
> in a conference call earlier in the day involving federal, state and local
> officials, plus company representatives, trying to solve the mess, which
has
> lingered for months.
>
> Cole said the Canadian-Pacific Railroad is committed to have the
containers
> trucked out of the SK Rail Yard in the Clinton-Bailey area to Modern
> Landfill in Lewiston within four to six weeks.
>
> "Rep. Quinn is adamant that it must happen sooner rather than later as
> summer approaches and the situation could become a serious health issue,"
> Cole said.
>
> When the 300 containers are gone, it is possible another 69 containers,
now
> sitting in a rail yard in New Jersey, would come here for transshipment.
>
> But that would be the end of it, Cole said.
>
> Officials of the railroad could not be reached to comment but are renting
> the containers and so have a financial incentive to get the problem
> resolved, Cole said.
>
> The situation is "a tangled mess from a corporate standpoint," stemming
from
> the financial problems of Chem-Rail Logistics of Glens Falls, he said.
>
> The operator of a Buffalo company hired to transfer the containers from
rail
> cars to trucks said he is owed $250,000 by Chem-Rail and won't get
involved
> until he is paid what he is owed.
>
> "I'm getting stiffed," said Joseph Jacobi of Express Intermodal Transport,
> who earlier had been optimistic that a new company would take over the
> operation.
>
> Adding to the problem is that many of the containers are too heavy to be
> hauled by conventional trucks, so special equipment and special permits
> would be required.
>
> Fillmore Council Member David A. Franczyk said he is disappointed to hear
it
> could take four to six weeks.
>
> "This has been a nightmare for all concerned," he said.
>
> Once the containers are gone, Franczyk said he would oppose any attempt to
> continue the operation.
> Meanwhile, a neighborhood organization formed to fight the problem has
> called a public meeting for 7 p.m. May 12 in the United Church of Christ,
> 1335 Clinton St.
>
> Various government officials have been invited by the Clinton-Bailey
> Community Association.
>
> e-mail: ternst@buffnews.com


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