2 Letter to the Editors on Keystone in today's The Scranton Times-Tribune. Keep sending 'em in (and feel free to send your thoughts to DEP as well...)

https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/.../article_979985f9...

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Editor: The state review of a proposed expansion at Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Dunmore and Throop is open for public comment during its technical evaluation.

One concern is about how much waste we generate and what room is left for this landfill. I propose a question that is not a new idea: How can we reduce the waste we produce?

FAWN CONTRERAS

ARCHBALD

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Editor: Thanks to Michele Dempsey for her June 8 letter explaining her opposition to the state Department of Environmental Protection’s rulings concerning the Keystone Sanitary Landfill expansion (“Halt landfill plan”).

She also encouraged readers to protest to Roger Belas, the head of the DEP regional office. I sent him the following message:

“I am writing to you as a resident of Scranton for the last 50 years. When my family moved here it was for my husband’s job. At the time, we had a 20-month-old daughter and a 9-month-old son. Our apartment in Scranton was in close proximity to a culm pile. Not being from the area, I didn’t even know that it was coal waste until I asked. Nine months later, our son, at 18 months, had his first asthma attack in a series of serious attacks that still endanger him.

“I vehemently oppose the landfill expansion. I know that the dangers of the landfill expansion are not the same as those of coal waste but they are, even in the report of the DEP, identified as dangerous to our health and safety. I demand that the DEP do its job and protect the citizens of NEPA from yet another environmental danger, one that even they identify as such. They have stated that not having the money that the landfill would generate would be worse. Worse for who?”

DENISE NORDBERG

SCRANTON