NCD980602163_20020703_Warren County PCB Landfill_SERB C_PCB Landfill Open House

Serving Warren County Since 1896-Our 106th Year-No. 26
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Wanen County residents participating in a tour of the PCB landfill during Saturday’s open house learn about the processwhich wifl be used to detoxify the landfill. The machine shown will be used in cleaning the landfill’s soif.
Locals get dose-up view of operation
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By LUCI WELDON
Assistant Editor
On Saturday,Warren
County citizens had an oppor-
tunity to tour the PCB landfill
facility, view the equipment
As groups went along the
tour, they could see every-
thing from erosion control
barriers on the edge of the
landfill which will prevent
rainwater from leaving the site
to the devices which will be
used to monitor the air around
the landfill, checking for
forms of air pollution, includ-
ing PCBs.
Storage ponds are also in
place to prevent rainwater
from escaping from the land-
fill site.
Detoxification will be a
thorough process, starting at
one end of the landfill and not
ending until the other end is
reached.
When soil is collected;
debris will be mechanically
separated from the soil itself.
The soil, which will go into
a sealed drying unit, will be
heated. Water, oil, and the
PCBs will evaporate from the
heated soil.
The cleaned soil will leave
the drying unit at a tempera-
ture between 650 and 1000
degrees Fahrenheit. To cool
the soil, it will be sprayed with
water.
The treated soil will be test-
ed and, if it meets treatment
standards, r/in go,, ,gck .into,the landfill,pz,~~~,%$,~~. I<$
A gas recc&@ ,.n~&&._Mkcapture the oir and P%flS
which evaporated from the
soil in the drying process.
The result, after a cooling
process, will be a substance
similar in appearance to motor
oil.
See LANDFILL, page 3
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town’s 4th of July Parade and Ladies Auxiliary, and the Wise-Festival.Paschal1 Ruritan Club will gath-A community-wide clean up er to clean up the roadside alongis set for Monday, July 1 at 6 U.S. 1. All interested county res-p.m. when members of the Wise idents are invited to participateBaptist Church, the Hawtree in this effort.Fire Department, the Hawtree The July 4th parade will begin
at 10 a.m., and the Festival willbegin at 11 a.m. Parade entrieswill gather south of Wise onU.S. 1 and should be lined up by9:30 a.m.
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The oil, which contains PCBs,will be treated at the landfillusing the base catalyzed decom-position (BCD) process:The process involves addingsomething similar to vegetableshortening as well as carbon
before the contents are heated.After the process, the oil istested to make sure the PCBshave been destroyed. Aboutevery two weeks, a shipment of
the oil from which PCBs have
been removed will be sent to a
recycling facility in SouthCarolina. If needed, a facility in
Texas will also be utilized.After learning about the treat-
ment process, local residents
were able to walk inside the site
control room, a computerizedcommand post from which theprocess can be monitored. Inaddition, personnel will walkaround the site to make sure that
everything is working properly.On the edge of the landfill,equipment will be used to mon-itor the air for pollutants, includ-ing PCBs. A meteorological sta-tion will monitor such factors as
wind speed and wind direction.
Before the detoxification ofthe whole landfill begins, a pre-liminary test and three full-scaletreatment tests (performancedemonstration) will be per-formed.The performancedemonstration is expected to
begin in August.
Once results indicate that theprocess has been effective andsafe, detoxification of the entirelandfill will begin.The detoxification process is
expected to take about six-to-
eight months, and is expected tobe completed by June 2003.
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it was coming from underneathher back steps, but wasn’t surewhat was making the noise.“It was the worst groaningyou ever heard,” she said. “Mytwo dogs were barking and Iwas scared to open the door.”Veeder called 911, thencracked open her back door andbeat the back of the steps with abroomstick., Soon after she real-ized that a cow, being attackedby two Rottweilers and a thirddog, was making the groaningsound.(Warren County deputiesresponded to the 911 call, but noreport was available at press
time.)Veeder said the cow tried toget inside her house, thenattempted to go through a gate
surrounding a backyard swim-ming pool before the dogs
stopped their attack.“When I saw what was under(the steps) I just about died,”
Veeder said.She led the injured cow into.asmall dog pen in her side yard,leaving behind a trail of bloodon the back steps and sidewalk.“You couldn’t even tell what
color that cow was,” Veedersaid.Around 10 a.m. Monday,Warren County Animal ControlOfficer James Solomon and ani-mal control officers from VanceCounty arrived at Veeder’shome.Shortly thereafter, Dale DUM,a resident on the Warren Countyside of Cross Creek Road, wasseen pulling into his driveway.Solomon went to Dunn’s resi-dence and confirmed that thecowand two Rottweilersbelonged to him. Solomon saidhe told DUM that he had to keephis dogs chained and keep the
cow where they couldn’t get toit.When DUM retrieved the cow
from Veeder’s property, ChiefJohnny Jones, one of two VanceCounty animal control officersresponding, warned DUM thathe would have him arrested if
there was any future troublewith his animals.Jones said that about twoweeks ago he had spoken toDUM about an incident with thesame cow.Tuesday morning, Solomonsaid that he had followed upwith DUM, who was puttingmedication on the cow’swounds and had one Rottweiler
chained and the other in a pen.Solomon, who was waiting oninformation from. the Warren
County magistrate’s officeregarding possible legal action,also said that DUM had beenissued verbal warnings not to lethis livestock run loose and tokeep his dogs confined.
Raises
By LUCI WELDONAssistant Editor
Warren County’s Guardian
Ad Litem (GAL) program islooking for caring adults toserve as volunteers to representthe best interests of childreninvolved in court proceedings asa result of being abused or neg-lected.For those court cases, theGAL is paired with an attorneyadvocate, and, working togeth-er, they present the child’s bestinterests to the court.While the attorney advocate
provides legal counsel, theGAL’s focus is making a recom-mendation on what would bebest for the child, providing rel-evant information.“The Guardian Ad Litemtalks with the child and the fam-ily. It is his or her responsibilityto have contact with the childand to be the voice for thatchild, what the child wants tokeep their happiness,” RobinGreen, program supervisor forthe Warren County area, said.,Green was sworn in as a
Guardian Ad Litem on May 3.“I think it is a good program,”she said. “If we have more vol-unteers, it will save a lot of chil-dren. They are our future.”In order for a GAL to makethe best recommendation con-cerning a ehild, he or she willinterview the people who are
familiar with the child and his orher history. The GAL will talkwith the child and the family aswell as social workers, schoolofficials,and health careproviders, for instance.The GAL will review thechild’s school, medical, and
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