That is NOT the Smell of Victory: One Man's Opinion

By Ben Meisner

Before everyone on the North side of the river feels they have an ace in the hole in dealing with the asphalt plant on the opposite bank,  let’s examine the regulations.

So Pittman has exceeded the regulations on the emissions. The first stack test must take place every year within the first 60 days of operation, if the levels are too high they have 30 days in which to make repairs and do another sample, if that test fails then they have a further 30 days to comply.

Put in more simple terms, you have 120 days from the start up of paving operations in which to reach compliance, so if you're doing the test in say the last week of June, that will give you until the last week of October (around the time the paving season comes to a halt) in which to means the regs.

So where does that leave us?  Well then you can wait until next year at which time the company will conduct a new test within the first 60 days of the paving season and it all starts as one big circle again.

Get the picture?  Its pretty simple, there may be regulations, which could have been drawn up on the back of a golf card, but never the less, they are there.

On the other side of the ledger the matter will come before City Council as it has in the past well into the winter.  That  will be about the time that paving is the furthest thing on our minds. Will those pesky neighbors head off to Council to try and have the times changed etc.?  Not likely, they will be preparing for Christmas.  So the City can again grant some new permits and the matter returns to square one. 

Sounds like what has been going on across the river for the past 30 years.

I’m Meisner and that is one man’s opinion.    

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