To: The New York State House, The New York State Senate, and Governor Andrew Cuomo
Stop Toxic Dumping in the Great Lakes Water Shed
I oppose applications by CWM Chemical, (a Waste Management subsidiary,) to build a new hazardous waste landfill and lagoons near the shores of the Niagara River and the Great Lakes, about a mile from property housing all public schools for two towns.
As evident in regulation and the New York State Siting Plan, a CWM landfill and lagoons would be unsafe, unnecessary for economic or environmental purposes, unfair, and not in the public interest. A massive new toxic waste and PCB dump is incompatible with an area New York seeks to make a world-class tourist destination. Please deny the CWM applications.
As evident in regulation and the New York State Siting Plan, a CWM landfill and lagoons would be unsafe, unnecessary for economic or environmental purposes, unfair, and not in the public interest. A massive new toxic waste and PCB dump is incompatible with an area New York seeks to make a world-class tourist destination. Please deny the CWM applications.
Why is this important?
Niagara County is host to one of the largest commercial toxic waste landfill operations in the United States.
Unsuitable Location for a Hazardous Waste Landfill CWM Chemical Services is located:
• two miles from the Niagara River
• three miles from Lake Ontario
• ten miles north of Love Canal
• one mile from all town public schools
The toxic landfill is owned by CWM Chemical Services, LLC, an ultimate subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc.
This CWM “Model City” facility was constructed by predecessors in 1971 on property formerly used for radioactive waste dumping and storage from:
• the Manhattan Project and Atomic Energy wastes
• nuclear reprocessing waste from a Naval reactor
• remains of experimental injections of plutonium, polonium and radium-226 in animals
Unsuitable Location for a Hazardous Waste Landfill CWM Chemical Services is located:
• two miles from the Niagara River
• three miles from Lake Ontario
• ten miles north of Love Canal
• one mile from all town public schools
The toxic landfill is owned by CWM Chemical Services, LLC, an ultimate subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc.
This CWM “Model City” facility was constructed by predecessors in 1971 on property formerly used for radioactive waste dumping and storage from:
• the Manhattan Project and Atomic Energy wastes
• nuclear reprocessing waste from a Naval reactor
• remains of experimental injections of plutonium, polonium and radium-226 in animals