The County Executive is at it again with a new plan for the Connelly Mill quarry in Delmar as explained on S2 E46 of OPEN AGENDA . The Administration quietly revealed last week that a plan is being developed to use the Connelly Mill sand quarry as a processing and disposal site for 400,000 cubic yards of dredge spoils stockpiled at Sharps Point (up to 40,000 dump truck loads), and 2-1/2 acres by 20-ft. deep of large tree stumps and trunks presently stored next to the landfill (hard to quantify how many truckloads this will require to move but obviously a lot). There is an imperative to move the dredge spoil from it's present location at Sharps Point to make room for new spoils that will be generated by the forthcoming dredging project scheduled for next year. But this “solution” is fraught with many pitfalls that will adversely affect neighborhoods all along the truck route between Sharps Point and Delmar. We give you the known details, and discuss better solutions that will cost taxpayers far less while also reducing environmental impacts and neighborhood disruptions. By failing to take timely action at the beginning of her term in office, has the Executive created another crisis with a bad solution just as she did with the landfill?
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