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No Repercussions

On Aug. 1 at the Clinton Town Hall, a half dozen residents of the Meadow Road neighborhood stood before the Planning & Zoning Commission (PZC), hearts on their sleeves, and repeated a similar theme over and over—how the industrial salvage company at the street’s end has ruined their quality of living by shattering their peace from the company’s multiprocessing resulting in noise, odors from toxic fumes, and early morning truck traffic speeding down the narrow, residential street. Residents also fear that the company’s land and the surrounding marsh might be polluted by industrial seepage from vehicle batteries, gas, and oil.

Meadow Road residents attended the Aug. 1 PZC meeting to prevent that salvage company from adding yet another process to its operation, that of high-heat wood chip processing. This would add to the noise, activity, pollution, and chance of fire and further deteriorate this neighborhood’s quality of life.

The salvage company was ironically presenting a belated application at the Aug. 1 hearing,one year late after having processed those wood chips without the required application and hearing for an entire year!

I question where the zoning enforcement officer was while this infraction continued despite complaints. There was no shut down of the company’s operation, no fines levied, no repercussions for violating Clinton’s application rules and regulations as the company circumvented them.

I ask the PZC—as the residents of Meadows Road have—to deny this application, have the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection check for possible pollution of the area, move the operation out of the residential area, introduce a noise ordinance, and listen to the pleas of our citizens for action after being ignored for so long.

Would any of us want to live on Meadow Road right now?

Lynn Davis

Clinton