Comments on: Escambia Set To Slap $264K Lien On Cove Landfill For January Fire

By: well

well — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:15:30 +0000

The majority of that cost was likely for the dirt and hauling by the Road Dept.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:42:05 +0000

REGARDING:
“I don’t understand why they are are being charged additional fees if they paid their yearly MSBU Fire fee. Does that mean if my house burns I will be charged for the fire departments manpower hours, fuel, water used etc over and beyond what I pay yearly?”

Most likely because they did not handle the waste in such a manner as to not have such an expensive fire to fight in the first place. Dirt or clay between layers of waste would have killed the fire if it ever started. Methinks that’s standard practice; more knowledgeable people can confirm or deny.

Just think if you prepared a huge bonfire next to the property line with all your neighbors and filled it with materials which would outgas poisonous gases and then let it catch fire with no regard to what it would do to the children in the school next to you, mostly likely they would fine you too.

Just a thought.

David for good neighbors

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:08:34 +0000

I don’t understand why they are are being charged additional fees if they paid their yearly MSBU Fire fee. Does that mean if my house burns I will be charged for the fire departments manpower hours, fuel, water used etc over and beyond what I pay yearly?

By: Neighbor

Neighbor — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:38:01 +0000

Do you remember when someone wanted to place an incenterator on this site and burn industrial waste after trucking it from the port…right in the middle of a neighborhood and adjacent to a school.

What are we doing to ourselves?

By: Neighbor

Neighbor — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:35:26 +0000

When the Cove landfill was active before the fire, there was a strong organic odor emanating from the pit…was evident for about the past year…especially at night.

After Ivan, the Cove landfill took a lot of debris, bit it smelled of pine. The recent smell was different.

Do I remember reading that the county was a “customer” of this landfill?

Just glad it’s closed.

By: Safebear

Safebear — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:40:47 +0000

I agree with 429SCJ that the county now owns what might end up being a superfund site. Even if it becomes a superfund site, that don’t mean it will be cleaned up faster. I worked with a company doing that type of work and just last year we started, I repeat started, cleaning an old paint company in the northeast that was one of the first sites declared superfund and that was almost 30 years ago.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:36:52 +0000

Oh, but last I heard, ground water doesn’t feed roots, not for oaks or for most plants

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:17:53 +0000

1932,
Tell us what the monitoring wells show.
We believe you; so you don’t need to make vague, ominous references.

After all, it is not too late for criminal charges if justified.

David for facts

By: 1932

1932 — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:57:56 +0000

There is plenty of proof that the Saufley Field Land site has waste other than normal construction waste there. I am a long time trained environmentalist. ” If you can get the FDEP and Escambia County environmentalist to come forward with the results from the monitoring wells in the area. There are things that have happened at this site that you have never heard of. Take a look at the old oak trees that are immediately surrounding the site. They are all dead and falling apart. Do you think this just happenens? They were poisioned by the shollow ground water that feeds the roots. I have passed this site for the past 24 years. The smell some times will choke you. Concrete and fixed building waste does not decay. The odor can only come from something that is organic and in the process of decay. Such as oil, diesel fuel, houshold garbage, pesticides, etc etc. Please don’t be foolish to think only building waste is there. Would you want to allow our children to play on a soccer field knowing there are toxic substances there. Thats what was once proposed by the county staff. ” I know “.

By: jeeperman

jeeperman — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:24:10 +0000

Yep, the owners will walk away.
They most likely did a week after the fire started.
Just like the Saufley Field Landfill, the county, state and feds will do nothing to them.
Period.
And the lien will sit attached to the deed forever.
It can only maybe be collected if they were to ever sell the property.
No sell, none of their money lost.
They can even operate as usual forever without paying the lien.