As anyone who has driven near Riverbend Landfill lately (or, Heaven forbid, lives or works nearby) knows, the dump smells even worse than usual this fall. While we wait for the Court of Appeals and Metro to act (the Court is considering appeals by both landfill opponents and owners, and Metro must soon decide whether to continue pumping waste into our County), a poetic reminder of why we fight:
Riverbend, O Riverbend
by Arnie Hollander, landfill neighbor
If they build it, it will come: garbage and trash and junk galore
From Portland and Tillamook, Japan and more.
Up from the Valley Mt. Trashmore grows where sky and clouds do meet.
Gone is our farm land. Polluted our air. This is not good. This is not neat.
What is black? What is brown? What consumes our precious ground?
Riverbend, O Riverbend, up so high with views unbound.
Don’t let them build it nor have it grow with garbage and trash and junk galore.
Protect our farm land. Protect our air. Keep them from sending in even more.
To file a report about the landfill smell:
Call Waste Management directly. They promise a response within 30 minutes:
1-855-888-6800
Or email the dump's environmental manager, Jeff O'Leary:
JOLeary@wm.com
File a written form with the state Department of Environmental Quality:
http://www.deq.state.or.us/complaints/mcomplaint.htm
Contact Yamhill County Solid Waste Coordinator Sherrie Mathison:
Mathiss@co.yamhill.or.us
Let the Stop the Dump Coalition know you reported the smell!
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