Letter: DEP meeting's tonight on Lincolnville dump
Judith Seraphin
Lincolnville, St. Augustine
Publication Date: 12/13/07
Editor: The St. Augustine City Commissioners and City Manager Bill Harriss have a special Christmas present for Lincolnville: a new park. But we don't want it.
The proposed park will be eight acres wide and 18 feet high. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) told us it was "potentially hazardous" material. It was illegally dumped, without a permit, into the Old City Reservoir in West Augustine. This goes directly to the aquifer, and to Florida's drinking water.
The DEP caught the city, fined them $33,000 and ruled that the potentially hazardous waste must be removed, and put into the state-approved Class 1 Landfill, where it should have been put in the first place. The city has decided to try to save money, and do it the cheaper way, and is going to dump this waste into Lincolnville, cover it with a few feet of dirt, and call it a park.
Wrong. Lincolnville has been the city's dumping grounds in the past but no more. The dumping days are over.
Come out to a meeting and give city officials your views. City Commissioners and Harris have been invited. Tell these officials, "no more dumping."
If you did it right the first time, you wouldn't be in this mess now.
The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. tonight at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, 85 Martin Luther King Ave. This meeting is being sponsored by the Lincolnville Neighborhood Association.
Come out and make your voice heard.
Judith Seraphin
Lincolnville
St. Augustine
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