The county is more than buzzing from the Hunt Administration’s announcement that public sentiment will not deter the state from burying the roadside PCBs in Warren County and from the time-crunch citizens are under with the EPA public hearing just days away.
The steering committee meets and decides that citizens need to hire an independent soil scientist and decides to ask Dr. Charles Mulchi who is a soil scientist at the University of Maryland. He is a native of Warren County and happens to be home for the holidays.
Members also decide to press county commissioners to pass a resolution against the PCB landfill at their January 2,1979 meeting and to go to civil disobedience if necessary.
As official spokesperson, Ken releases a press release stating there will be “due process first, then civil disobedience” and calls on the NAACP and other organizations to participate in civil disobedience if it becomes necessary. In effect, Ken is issuing an ultimatum and drawing a line in the sand on behalf of Warren County Citizens Concerned About PCBs.
Then citizens learn that the Governor has just flown local officials down to Emelle,
Alabama to tour Waste Management, Inc.’s chemical waste facility. The company had purchased an option earlier in the year on 500 acres of land in Warren County. The land is owned by Governor Hunt’s Warren County campaign manager, land that is not far from the temporary PCB dump that is on land he also owns.
With news of the PCB landfill and a multi-state hazardous waste landfill targeted for Warren County, citizens are more fired up than ever!
