Rogers Road area residents say they were promised no more landfills. The county says a transfer station is not a landfill and that buying a new site -- where garbage would be hauled before being shipped outside the county -- could cost millions. Read our story in Wednesday's Chapel Hill News or at www.chapelhillnews.com and tell us what you think the county should do.
JohnKramer's idea is a good one but would certainly add to the cost. Has anyone thought about the fact that these 18 wheelers will be cruising up and down the same road where a new elementarly school is being planned? I don't want this kind of traffic so close to ES 10, and I don't see how it can be safe.
The Orange County waste transfer station should be built in a location similar to Greensboro’s new waste transfer station - well away from residential neighborhoods and off a main residential traffic corridor.
Yesterday the Chapel Town Council met to discuss development in northwest Chapel Hill. They agreed that they want this to be a walkable, pedestrian-friendly, bike-friendly community. They also want the gateway to Chapel Hill at I-40 on MLK Boulevard to develop in a way that reflects Chapel Hill’s values. How will all of our county’s garbage trucks along with the 18-wheeler trash transfer trucks fit in with the mix of pedestrians, bicyclists and residential traffic? Consider not only our current volume of garbage – but also the garbage that will be created by our high density developments planned for not only Chapel Hill and Carrboro, but in Hillsborough and other areas of Orange County.
Millhouse Road will be the location of some of the county’s new soccer fields – close-in fields that local soccer fans have been begging the county to provide. The Blackwood farmstead on Millhouse Road has been designated for preservation as an educational and recreational park. Do we really want these soccer fields and historical farm center just a short distance from the garbage transfer station? Do we really want our children playing so near to an area that brings in rodents with the trash and can not possibly contain and control all of these rats, mice and other pests?
The promised closing of the Eubanks Landfill is an opportunity for us to acquire a location for many of the desirable facilities that our community has been trying desparately to find space for. Need a location for a movie theater with great bus transportation? Why not plan to put it at the closed landfill site just down the street from the town bus depot?
Do the residents of Lake Hogan Farms really want to sit in traffic on Eubanks Road with all those garbage trucks? (And yes, even Chapel Hill-Carrboro’s trash stinks.) Do the residents of the Northwoods neighborhood deserve to have all those garbage trucks driving and idling and downshifting just beyond their backyards on Eubanks Road? Would we build $700,000 homes just across Eubanks from the garbage transfer station? If the answer is no, then the answer to building the garbage transfer station across from where we are planning a new Habitat for Humanity neighborhood in the Greene Tract must also be no.
We cannot afford to adopt a rushed decision on where to put the county’s waste transfer station. There is too much at stake. Please ask our county commissioners to take the time to research and make the best decision for ALL of us and the best long-term use of the closed Eubanks Landfill site. SharonC
They need to put a new
They need to put a new transfer station at a new I-40 exit designed just for that purpose, between exits 261 and 263. Rogers Road has paid their dues, and then some.
I cannot believe someone would be so naive as to believe that trash falling out of trucks would be immediately picked up.