Farm women protest York County dump
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
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And will it even
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last week during a meeting
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of a recently-formed group
of farm and rural women in
North Codorus Township.
Calling themselves MAD,
Mothers Against the Dump,
the several dozen women
have prodded and probed to
gather information and
publicize their fight against
a proposed industrial waste
burial facility in the midst of
their farmcommunity.
Focus of the women’s fight
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is a permit held by Stabatrol,
Inc., a firm that plans to
process and bury neutralized
industrial wastes, including
heavy metal compounds and
possibly toxic chemicals.
The facility is to be located
atop a steep ridge that splits
two prime farmland valleys.
Stabatrol recently' pur
chased the corporate
structure of Sunny Farms,
Ltd., which formerly
operated a sanitary solid
waste landfill on the
property. That landfill has
'been temporarily suspended
from operations m 1976 by
the Department of En
vironmental Resources for
not fulfilling regulatory
requirements. The current
permit for the industrial
waste disposal originally
was granted to Sunnv
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Abandoning housecleaning and garden chores,
MAD women planned dump protest strategy in the
converted chicken house of hostess Ella Paules,
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Farms, and the issue now
lies with the legality of
transferring that permit,
along -with the corporate
assets, to Stabtrol.
Another waste processing
firm, Liqwacon, also has
plans to use part of the old
Sunny Farms ■ acreage for
industrial disposal.
Liqwacon specializes in
mostly liquid wastes, while
Stabatrol’s processes deal
with more solids.
About 30 women from the
area, plus a handful of men,
met last Thursday m the
chicken coop converted to
tractor shed and utility
building at the Robert
Paules home, Spring Grove
Rl. Hostess Ella Paules,
whose family’s home looks
across a bare quarter-mile
of browning cornfields to the
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From outside appearances
at the former poultry house,
the gathering could have
been any afternoon meeting
of a group of rural women. A
half-dozen youngsters
scattered colored wooden
blocks across the grass and
banged the door as they ran
in and out.
But matters were more
serious for the irate mothers
inside, who grilled 93rd
District legislator A. Car
ville Foster at length on
tactics and the legal angles
of fighting the unwanted
industrial waste neighbors.
At the heart of MAD’s
concern is potential con
tamination of the area’s
abundant water supphes.
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both from above and below
ground pollution.
The dump site hillside is
blamed by residents for
already causing con
siderable washing during
heavy rainstorms, carrying
stones and mud into the
creeks and across public
roads. Natives of the area
also insist that iron ore
mining a century ago left the
high ridge riddled with old
mine shafts that were closed
because the water filled
them in.
MAD, and its parent
citizens’ group OUCH,
Opposing Unnecessary
Chemical Hazards,
adamantly stick to their
argument that hazardous
pollutants may someday
filter down through the old
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