Residents & Environmental Justice Groups to Fight County Plans to Build Giant Dump for Out-of-County Garbage and Sewage Sludge!

Press Conference

Tuesday, July 9, 2002 10 a.m.
In front of City and County Government Building
1010 10th Street, Modesto

See Also

Stop the Mega-Dump in Stanislaus County, California! No More Environmental Racism Against Low-Income Latino Residents On The Westside!

For more information, contact:

John Mataka Grayson Neighborhood Council	(209) 895-3352
Bradley Angel Greenaction	(415) 248-5010

We are Tired of Being a Toxic Dumping Ground!

Modesto, CA -- Stanislaus County residents and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice will speak out at a press conference Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 10 a.m. in front of the City and County Government Building in Modesto (1010-10th Street) to launch an all-out fight against County government plans to turn the Fink Road landfill in Crow's Landing into a mega-dump for garbage and sewage sludge imported from far and wide.

Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors will soon vote on the controversial proposal. Residents and environmental justice groups believe the EIR process has been inadequate and failed to address the serious health and environmental threats posed by the proposed dump expansion.

Two years ago residents and Greenaction defeated County plans to import and burn medical waste at the Waste-to-Energy plant in Crow's Landing. Residents and Greenaction will once again rally public opposition to County plans to dump dangerous wastes in our community.

• The proposed mega-dump would import garbage and toxic-contaminated sewage sludge from across the state and potentially other states.
• 99% of the garbage would come from outside the County.
• The dump would be one square mile in size and 650 feet high.
• Importing garbage and sewage sludge increases leakage and contamination risks.
• Truck traffic would increase significantly, harming our already poor air quality and threatening to increase the already epidemic rates of asthma in the County.
• Expansion not needed as there is minimum of 42 years of capacity left for County garbage.