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U <br />Attachment 2 <br />18 January 2007 <br />To: Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Orange County Solid Waste Management <br />From: Kathleen Schenley, homeowner <br />6714 millhouse Road 918-4159 katsch22(abellsouth.net <br />As a Millhouse Road homeowner since 1981, I am concerned that, yet again, our <br />neighborhood is faced with waste disposal decisions that affect our lives and property. <br />We rejoiced when -the decision was made to close the Eubanks Road landfill. Eventually. <br />We had a light at the end of the tunnel. Now you wish to turn out the light and close off <br />the tunnel. Here we go again. <br />Her are my specific concerns and questions: <br />Can you guarantee that there will be no problem with odor or vermin at the transfer <br />station? <br />Can you guarantee that there will be no noise pollution from machinery, truck back-up <br />homs, and the like? Can you guarantee that there will be no noisy night time activity? <br />(Would you like being awakened in the middle of the night to the sound of banging <br />trucks and beeping back-up alerts?) <br />Can you guarantee that trucks using the roads will obey the speed limits? <br />(I have clocked OCWM trucks at 38mph on Millhouse Road in a 20 mph zone.) <br />Can you explain to us the decision malting structure? Do the Chapel Hill and Carrboro <br />City Councils have any voice in this decision? It seems unconstitutional that those of us <br />in the Rural Buffer should have our fate decided by officials for whom we cannot vote. <br />We were promised freedom from the burden of the county's trash. Is that promise ever <br />going to be fulfilled? <br />Thank you for listening to our concerns. <br />4