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the homes on Garnet Street have had to have deeper wells, a <br />fourth home now needs a deeper well and a fifth wells shows <br />nitrates. I find it hard to believe that in recent water <br />testing they won't check for contaminants. They say ground <br />water flows to the Southeast, but that is not true. If there <br />is mounding, water can go any which way, and more than likely <br />it goes North and West. None of us can afford the cost of this <br />kind of testing, we hope we aren't drinking chemicals. Presenting <br />a letter from a neighbor who has lived in the community for 46 <br />years, Mr. August Peltzer, Jr. Mr. Morgan then read the letter. <br />Mr. Morgan stated that the landfill odors have been worse in the <br />last two years than it has been in the last 10 years. We were <br />told that adequate cover and installation of our vents would <br />get rid of the sour smell; that was a big joke. We have to go <br />inside on nice days and close our windows and doors. The smell <br />of our future park, or whatever they are planning for it, will <br />be enough to gag an elephant. With regards to property value, <br />in the 10 years my family has lived here I feel our property <br />value has been going down with every foot of garbage added to <br />the landfill. Our taxes have been going up along with the <br />garbage. By the time you people get done with this pollution <br />trap, we won't be able to give our houses away and that's another <br />reason why my house wasn't included on your charts. Don't know <br />how a proposal to move a landfill closer to existing homes and <br />over a natural pond ever got this far. I know that I speak for <br />most of the residents of Ramsey when I say that we will not <br />stand for any more expansion of the landfill either North or <br />South and if it does not stop here and now, this battle between <br />the citizens of Ramsey and some of our elected officials and <br />Waste Management will turn into the biggest damn war they have <br />ever had. <br /> <br />Gregg Austin - 6738 153rd Lane - The smell, noise and contamination <br />is bad enough without moving it closer to my house. The idea that <br />Waste Management does not allow toxic waste to be dumped there is <br />incorrect. I have seen a 55 gallon drum of crude oil being dumped <br />there and landfill employees also saw it being dumped. That is <br />only one incident that I happened to witness. That stuff is <br />going to get into the water supply sooner or later. If the <br />people conducting this public hearing have so much confidence in <br />this new landfill, which one of them will buy my house. It is <br />time to close the dump, Ramsey does not want the dump. Mr. <br />Austin told Mayor Game¢~that if he wants to be mayor of Dump City, <br />USA, he should go to another community. <br /> <br />Chairman Peterson inquired if Mr. Austin notified Waste Management <br />of that seen violation. <br /> <br />Mr. Austin inquired as to what good it would have to to report <br />the violation? <br /> <br />Chairman Peterson repeated his question. <br /> <br />Mr. Austin replied that he did not report the violation. <br /> <br />Council/P & Z <br />Public Hearing <br />Page 10 of 23 <br /> <br /> <br />