I am writing to make known the objections to the 10-acre Paydarfar site off of Millhouse Road for the location of Orange County’s waste transfer site.
(1) It was “introduced†into the selection process very late and without any of the evaluation or public discussion/input that all other sites correctly received. In fact, this land was originally rejected during the early phases of the process.
(2) It would continue to prolong the well-recognized and documented environmental racial injustice that the Rogers Road/Millhouse Road communities have endured now for over 30 years.
(3) It situates a countywide waste transfer site literally right next door to planned future soccer fields (on the former Blackwood property, which Chapel Hill now owns), and which our children will use on a daily basis.
(4) It will increase heavy truck traffic on both Eubanks Road (due to 18-wheelers going out from the site to the highway) and on Millhouse Road (the southern stretch being the direct entrance/exit to the site and the northern stretch being the most direct access to the site from all points north). The increase in heavy truck traffic on the northern stretch of Millhouse is especially disturbing due to its negative impact on the Emerson Waldorf School, which borders both sides of this road and whose students cross Millhouse throughout the day on a regular basis.
I strongly encourage all Orange County citizens to partake in the process of deciding how we dispose of our waste.
Edward Garvey
Chapel Hill