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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Lexington city leaders say they are offering a way to get rid of up to one pickup load of non-hazardous waste for free. The city says Lexington residents can drop off the trash 6 a.m. - 1 p.m. July 14 at the Bluegrass Regional Transfer Station. You will be able to dispose of mattresses, furniture and up to four tires during the event. Hazardous materials, electronics and appliances will not be accepted. You must cover your load with a tarp. Lexington holds free disposal days four times a year. You can read more details on the free trash disposal day here. ... (ty of Lexington offering free trash disposal Saturday)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - One teenager is seriously injured following a dumpster fire. Two other teens went to the hospital, police said.A woman heard an explosion on Spangler Drive around 2:15 Wednesday morning.Police say the three teens set the dumpster on fire.One teen had significant injuries to his face, police said.The others hurt their arms or legs.Police have not said if the teens will face charges. (WKYT)
Robert Beaudoin, superintendent of environmental services, by phone at 781-274-8334 or by email: rbeaudoin@lexingtonma.gov. (Wicked Local Lexington)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) - Help is on the way for people in Florida. Even as the storm hits, the Davis H. Elliot Electric Company here in Lexington is heading south. About 40 workers are sending bucket trucks to help deal with the fallout of Hurricane Irma--but they'll be joined later by about 500 other workers who are making their way from Texas, after helping out with Hurricane Harvey.The electric company says this is a national plan and these crews will travel to the Tampa area--where Irma--one of the strongest storms ever -- is expected to tear its way across Florida. “It's going to be tough even getting into the cities now. We will have police escorts. We will have escorts from the utilities that we are working for to help us get into these homes,” said Ryan Elliott, a Division Manager with Davis H. Elliot.Just after the first 40 left, 30 more crews from Davis H. Elliot were sent to the Florida Keys.Millions of people are already without power and these workers are expected to go i... (LEX18 Lexington KY News)
A rusted incinerator sat just behind the fence, poking out of the murky soup.Related stories from Lexington Herald-LeaderAcross the road at what appeared to be a more recently operational plant, a pair of tall white tanks had tipped over into a heap of twisted steel. It was not immediately clear what, if anything, might have been inside them when the storm hit.EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has called cleaning up Superfund sites a top priority, even as he has taken steps to roll back or delay rules aimed at preventing air and water pollution. Trump's proposed 2018 budget seeks to cut money for the Superfund program by 30 percent, though congressional Republicans are likely to approve a less severe reduction.Like Trump, Pruitt has expressed skepticism about the predictions of climate scientists that warmer air and seas will produce stronger, more drenching storms.Under the Obama administration, the EPA conducted a nationwide assessment of the increased threat to Superfund sites posed by climate change, including rising sea levels and stronger hurricanes. Of the more than 1,600 sites reviewed as part of the 2012 study, 521 were determined to be in 1-in-100 year and 1-in-500 year flood zones. Nearly 50 sites in coastal areas could also be vulnerable to rising sea levels.The threats to human health and wildlife from rising waters that inundate Superfund sites vary widely depending on the specific contaminants and the concentrations involved. The EPA report specifically noted the risk that floodwaters might carry away and spread toxic materials over a wider area.The report listed two dozen Superfund sites determined to be especially vulnerable to flooding and sea-level rise. The only one in Texas, the Bailey Waste Disposal site south of Beaumont, is on a marshy island along the Neches River. The National Weather Service said the Neches was expected to crest on Saturday at more than 21 feet above flood stage — 8 feet higher than the prior record.In Crosby, across the San Jacinto River from Houston, a small working-class neighborhood sits between two Superfund sites, French LTD and the Sikes Disposal Pits.The area was wrecked by Harvey's floods. Only a single house from among the roughly dozen lining Hickory Lane was still standing.After the water receded on Friday, a sinkhole the size of a swimming pool had opened up and swallowed two cars. The acrid smell of creosote filled the air.Rafael Casas' family had owned a house there for two decades, adjacent to the French LTD site. He said he was never told about the pollution risk until it came up in an informal conversation with a police officer who grew up nearby. Most of the homes had groundwater wells, but Casas said his family had switched to bottled water."You never know what happens with the pollution under the ground," said Casas, 32. "It filters into the water system."The water had receded by Saturday at Brio Refining Inc. and Dixie Oil Processors, a pair of neighboring Superfund sites about 20 miles southeast of downtown Houston in Friendswood. The road was coated in a layer of silt. Mud Gully Stream, which bisects the two sites, was full and flowing with muddy water.Both sites were capped with a liner and soil as part of EPA-supervised cleanup efforts aimed at preventing the contamination from spreading off the low-lying sites during floods. Parts of the Brio site were elevated by 8 feet.John Danna, the manager hired by the companies to oversee the sites, said in a phone interview that he went there after the storm and saw no signs of erosion. He said he didn't know how high the flooding got in Harvey's wake and that no testing of the water still draining from the area had been conducted. EPA staff are expected to visit in the next week, he said.A security guard at the Patrick Bayou Superfund site, just off the Houston Ship Channel in Deer Park, said Saturday that flooding came hundreds of feet inland during the storm. The water has since receded back into the bayou, where past testin... (New Jersey Herald)
