Hempstead Village Residents Pack Meeting To Complain About Proposed Waste Transfer Station
HEMPSTEAD (CBSNewYork) -- Hempstead Village residents are fighting mad over a proposal to locate a waste transfer station in their neighborhood.
Fildon LLC of Hempstead and Don Cristi LLC of Inwood want to place a green waste transfer station on a decontaminated brownfield site at Sewell and Mirschel streets.
Overflow Crowd Complains Of Proposed Waste Transfer Station In Hempstead Village
Hundreds jammed a Planning Board meeting Monday night to complain about the traffic, noise, rodents and stench they say it would create.
"Nobody wants to smell that," Kevin Vice told WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs. "You wake up early in the morning, I mean that's the first thing you smell instead of flowers and grass and dew. Nobody wants to smell garbage."
Hempstead resident Talli Leviner told WCBS 880 he's also worried about the potential impact on the environment and people's health.
"You have groundwater contaminates. You have air pollution. We have schools that surround us -- we have a high school, we have a charter school, and we have an elementary school," he said. "All of these carbons would be let out into the air."
The companies say the work would be contained and monitored by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
So many opponents to the proposal showed up at Monday's meeting that it had to be adjourned. It will be rescheduled at a larger venue, where residents promise to continue their fight.
