Our Orange County commissioners are getting closer to selecting a site to build a county-wide trash transfer station. Please support the Eubanks-Rogers Road neighborhood in their effort to remove Eubanks Road as a potential site for this new facility. Eleven potential sites have been identified. Most of the other sites are west of White Cross Road along Highway 54 or off of the I-40 and Old 86 intersection. Every current and future garbage truck in the county will travel the selected route to the waste transfer station. From there all the trash will be dumped and loaded onto extended semi-tractor trailers for shipment out of the county.
Please show your support by attending the Orange County Commissioners’ Work Session on Tuesday, Sept. 16th at 5:30 p.m at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road (back behind the new Senior Center). Please come, even if you will arrive late.
There are so many reasons why Eubanks Road is NOT the best place for this new facility, including:
— the opening of Morris Grove Elementary School and the school buses and families who now use this route on a daily basis;
— the future middle school and county park near Morris Grove;
— the continuing residential and business developments along Eubanks Road;
— and most importantly, the fact that the Eubanks-Rogers Road neighborhood has hosted our county’s trash facilities for the past 35 years!
If there is simply no way that you can attend the meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 16th, please send an email to our county clerk at dbaker@co.orange.nc.us and ask her to forward your comments to each of the county commissioners and to include your comments in the public record.
Many of your neighbors in the Eubanks-Rogers Road community have been working very hard to prevent our area from becoming the permanent trash center for the county. Please give them your support at this critical time in the decision-making process. For more info about the issue, Google “Orange County, NC Waste Transfer Station.â€
Sharon Cook
Carrboro