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Fargo police posted a response to C.S. Hagen's 4,600-word cover story on its Facebook page on Thursday, Dec. 7, because "there may be some question as to why this material was left in the apartment or found in a dumpster."After Crews and her live-in boyfriend at the time, William Hoehn, were arrested in connection with the killing of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind and the abduction of her newborn baby, investigators combed through the couple's apartment looking for evidence.In the Facebook post, police said, "We do not take personal items such as journals or paperwork that we feel don't have evidentiary value to the case. They are left at the property."The post said that after Crews and Hoehn were arrested "they apparently didn't make any arrangements for people or family to take possession of their property within the apartment."Fargo Police Chief David Todd said on Thursday, "There wasn't any new information we saw in the article. We conducted a number of search warrants and went all thr... (WDAY)
It confirms my worst fears,” said Rep. Margo McDermed, from limestone-rich Will County, home to a dozen CCDD sites. The Republican’s monitoring-well legislation stalled last spring.“The protocols that were created to monitor the so-called clean construction debris in the quarries were completely inadequate,” McDermed said. “We never felt they were sufficient to protect people and their drinking water, and unfortunately, we were correct.”RELATED:4 in 5 Illinois debris dump sites high in toxinsRegulators are meeting with representatives of each of the impacted sites, IEPA spokeswoman Kim Biggs said. What happens, she said, “will vary site by site,” but could include more sampling, confirmation testing or soil removal.Critics say the industry is self-regulated, with debris haulers and quarry owners deciding whether waste to be dumped is contaminated. Trade representatives counter licensed professionals test soil on the demolition site for contaminants, taking into consideration the land-use history. Then the load is inspected visually and with a chemical odor-detecting wand at the dump site. Suspicious loads may be rejected.The idea behind the CCDDs is to divert “clean” debris from sanitary landfills — premium, more-costly space because of tougher environmental standards designed to discourage toxins from migrating to groundwater. Dumping the same load at a landfill costs at least five times more, not counting increased trucking expenses because there are far fewer landfills, said Dan Eichholz, executive director of the industry group, the Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers.Prompted by discussion of McDermed’s legislation, IEPA sampled deposits from the 92 sites in April and May, testing them for 190 heavy metals, pesticides, volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds. Samples most often showed levels exceeding what’s allowable for aluminum, iron, selenium, chromium, and manganese. Excessive levels of arsenic were found in six cases and mercury in three. In a handful of cases, one or more of seven semi-volatile organic compounds was too high, all but one a known or suspected carcinogen.Eichholz maintains that Illinois has the nation’s most stringent regulations for dumping demolition debris. He said that without follow-up testing to assess...
The landfill will be open during regular hours and is free from October 14th through the 21stOctober 10, 2017FARGO, N.D. — For the first time ever, the City of Fargo will hold a fall-clean up week.Unlike the popular spring cleanup week where the city picks up your junk, you will have to bring your items to the city landfill yourself.The landfill will be open during regular hours and is free from October 14th through the 21st.The landfill supervisor says this is the perfect opportunity to lighten the load in the spring and keep the city clean.“People for a week can bring their household waste, their couches, and old mattresses, anything they don’t want to sit on to wait for spring cleanup they can bring it to us,” said Paul Hanson, the Fargo Landfill Supervisor. “It’s important because it gives a chance for people to clean up and basically clean up the city.”This fall cleanup is free for people living in Fargo only.Some proof of residency may be required.Related Post... (KVRR)
Consequently, the Cleanup observance has been set for Sept. 23-27 instead of May 6-10.West Fargo Sanitation Manager Dennis Correll said the decision to change the date to coincide with Fargo's was a natural one since the week has always been coordinated for the same time metrowide.Since West Fargo has a garbage contract with the Fargo landfill he said it also made sense "not to be creating extra work for Fargo staff when their efforts may be needed elsewhere as the flood threat unfolds."Correll added that moving the date for West Fargo residents and businesses isn't a big deal because sanitation crews pick up just about anything no matter what time of the year.Public Works Director Barry Johnson reiterated similar comments."We don't want to do it the first week of May because Fargo could possibly be in the middle of a flood fight. It would be tough for them to deal with a lot of extra garbage because their manpower may be needed somewhere else. We go together as a community on whatever Fargo does with Cleanup Week so we will fall in line with their time frame," Johnson stated... (West Fargo Pioneer)
U.S., according to a new study led by Uisung Lee of Argonne National Laboratory.In a paper published this month in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Lee and other scientists assessed the environmental benefits of various waste-to-energy production methods. The researchers found that waste from yard trimmings, paper, wood and food could produce significant amounts of renewable natural gas and liquid fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, while also avoiding emissions of methane and other harmful pollutants.Uisung Lee (Courtesy Argonne National Laboratory) “Our study shows that using what would otherwise become landfill waste to produce fuel typically generates less greenhouse gases than simply letting the waste decompose,” said Lee, a postdoctoral appointee in Argonne’s Energy Systems Division, in a press release.Landfill gas produced by waste contains high concentrations of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that Argonne says warms the climate about 30 times more than carbon dioxide. Although operators of large landfills are required to combust landfill gas, collecting all of it is impossible, resulting in large amounts of methane escaping into the atmosphere, according to Argonne.In 2014, about 70 trillion pounds of waste wound up in landfills in the U.S., according to the Department of Energy. The following year, the amount of greenho... (Chicago Tonight | WTTW)
