Chestertown, Md. -- According to the Sassafras River Association, next Tuesday, August 16, the Kent County Commissioners will be asked to sign an agreement that will pave the way for local approvals and construction of a rubble dump in the fragile headwaters of the Sassafras River. At the commissioners' meeting, developers will ask the county for permanent exemption from new county laws, including those for environmental protection.
Approval of this project could lead to Kent County deciding to eventually locate their own municipal garbage dump at the same site, destroying the Sassafras River. While the company would have citizens believe this is a clean operation, no dump liners are fool-proof or last forever and environmental permits often are not well-enforced. According to SRA, if the rubble dumpers want to be model citizens, they would not ask to be exempt from the same new local laws the rest of the county must follow.
The dump site is situated close to the Sassafras River, near a creek that already shows high pollution levels. SRA is asking concerned citizens to come to the August 16 county commissioners' meeting and to speak about the project.
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