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There seems to be some misconception as to the actual type of garbage truck that will crowd onto US Route 60 and our surrounding area roads. We want to make it clear that the kind of garbage truck that residential area dwellers are frequently awakened to each morning and the type of trucks that will actually be in and out of our area are two different entities. |
At their many public hearings, Allied continually showed the picture on the left (below) as the primary type of truck that will most frequently deliver MSW to the site. But it is more likely that the trucks hauling into our area will be giant 80-ton menaces crammed with a vast array of toxic waste from places like Brooklyn, DC, and other major cities. |
These marauders will crowd onto US Route 60 at the rate of 10 per hour, that's an estimated 100 to 400 trucks per day. Residents of Powhatan County, you should develop a healthy disdain for this idea as it's your community that will be affected by this traffic most. |
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This is not a garbage truck... |
THIS is a garbage truck! |
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This truck carries about 5 to 6 tons of ordinary household waste picked up in your own neighborhood. Delivered daily by these fresh-scrubbed beauties that Allied Waste is so proud of. |
But this truck can haul about 20 tons of rotted Washington, DC and New York MSW, medical waste, and hazardous consumer waste crammed into a derilect sub-contractors truck hundreds of times per day! |
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These trucks are frequently in poor mechanical condition due to the fact that accessing the landfill sites as the mountain of garbage progresses upward requires them to drive over rough dirt roads to get to the cell being formed in order to dump. Road trucks were not designed to be operated under such conditions, so therefore maintenance on these vehicles tends to lapse. In other words, most of them are junk! |
It is also important for us to mention that these trucks do not have tarps on them that seal the waste from the outside, as anyone that has ever driven up behind one can tell you, the garbage is open to the air. Kept in by a thin plastic net that is rolled over the top of it once it is filled. These trucks stop at local businesses such as gas stations, restaurants and stores and leak black liquid onto parking lots and driveways. |
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