Open Menu burning wins out over closed incinerator for M6 propellant in Camp Minden
The very first of many public meetings regarding the disposal of over 15 million pounds of M6 propellant in Camp Minden drew close to 150 concerned officials and citizens to the Minden Civic Center Thursday night. There, they learned the arrangement reached between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army, that will finance the $28.5 million clean up of their illegally stored substance left by Explo Systems, Inc., calls strictly for open air burning. “Local builders, the Maddens, designed a device,” Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton, who put up the assembly, said. “For some reason, that apparatus isn’t being considered within this clean up process.” “We’re disappointed,” James Madden, proprietor of Madden Contracting, said. Madden’s son, David spent money and time researching and constructing a prototype that would have permitted closed incineration of the product. “We considered we built a better mousetrap.” But Madden might not be from…
Bangor’s former incinerator property is not for sale, authority officials say
The Bangor Borough Authority won’t market the prior incinerator property. Not right now, at least. The board voted Thursday day to encourage authority Chairman Donald Butz’s Oct. 2 letter into borough council President James Kresge that said the authority need to not market the incinerator and the surrounding home now identified together as the Bangor Company Park. “Too many people had difficulties with the purchase,” Butz said. Negotiations were underway at summer time that would have had the authority market the lengthy-dormant 79-acre great deal for $1.075 million into Valley Industrial Properties. Officials discussed plans with V.I.P. who wanted to fill out the deep valleys and level the steep slopes of the Ridge Road home to make it suitable for development, said authority Administrator Marino Saveri at June. Even so, some residents and borough officials expressed concern that landfill and dirt possibly hauled in from out of state by V.I.P.…