ROCHESTER SUPERVISOR WITHHOLDS DETAILS ON TRANSFER STATION PROBLEM
By William J. Kemble, Correspondent
04/10/2007
ACCORD - The Town Board has been told that new procedures are needed at the town transfer station for disposal of petroleum products, but town Supervisor Pam Duke isn't giving details of problems.
Duke said during a Town Board meeting last week that the problem was part of a list of corrections needed at the facility.
"We are really not in compliance with quite a lot of things so we have a laundry list that is quite lengthy," she said.
The comments by Duke were made when taking a bid resolution off the agenda for improvements to a storage building for oil and batteries.
"The biggest thing that we've got to do is we've got to get those tanks registered that are out at the transfer station," she said. "It has a lot to do with DEC (state Department of Environmental Conservation) and to be in DEC compliance."
Information discussed during the session included learning of a buried oil and apparent commingling oil with other types of liquids.
Duke on Monday declined a reporter's request for the list of problems. Asked if it would be available under the state Freedom of Information Law she said, "Sure, but you know it's just a list of things that we need to look at I really don't want in the paper because we haven't really discussed this, and I have not even discussed this with the employees or anything."
Duke added that town Councilman Tony Spano, liaison to the transfer station, had not been given the list because he was absent from the Town Board meeting.
"I'm not going to send that copy to anybody right now," she said. "The reason being is that we have to sit down and discuss what we're doing. This is not in stone."
Duke said the information came from Conklin Construction as a free study of municipal waste oil disposal practices.
"That was the first time the board has seen anything. We have not had a discussion about it. I don't feel comfortable sending it out," she said.
By William J. Kemble, Correspondent
04/10/2007
ACCORD - The Town Board has been told that new procedures are needed at the town transfer station for disposal of petroleum products, but town Supervisor Pam Duke isn't giving details of problems.
Duke said during a Town Board meeting last week that the problem was part of a list of corrections needed at the facility.
"We are really not in compliance with quite a lot of things so we have a laundry list that is quite lengthy," she said.
The comments by Duke were made when taking a bid resolution off the agenda for improvements to a storage building for oil and batteries.
"The biggest thing that we've got to do is we've got to get those tanks registered that are out at the transfer station," she said. "It has a lot to do with DEC (state Department of Environmental Conservation) and to be in DEC compliance."
Information discussed during the session included learning of a buried oil and apparent commingling oil with other types of liquids.
Duke on Monday declined a reporter's request for the list of problems. Asked if it would be available under the state Freedom of Information Law she said, "Sure, but you know it's just a list of things that we need to look at I really don't want in the paper because we haven't really discussed this, and I have not even discussed this with the employees or anything."
Duke added that town Councilman Tony Spano, liaison to the transfer station, had not been given the list because he was absent from the Town Board meeting.
"I'm not going to send that copy to anybody right now," she said. "The reason being is that we have to sit down and discuss what we're doing. This is not in stone."
Duke said the information came from Conklin Construction as a free study of municipal waste oil disposal practices.
"That was the first time the board has seen anything. We have not had a discussion about it. I don't feel comfortable sending it out," she said.
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