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Escambia Set To Slap $264K Lien On Cove Landfill For January Fire
May 14, 2013
Escambia County is set to slap a quarter million dollar plus lien on the companies responsible for the Cove Landfill in Ensley where a fire burned for a week back in January.
On January 22, Escambia County Fire Rescue responded to the Cover Landfill for an unknown-type fire. The fire department, Department of Public Safety, Solid Waste Management and Public Works Department coordinated efforts to extinguish the fire because it was an imminent hazard to the health, safety and welfare of the general public. The county worked from January 22 to January 28 to bring the landfill fire under control and return control to the owners.
Escambia County previously notified the land fill operator, Industrial Fencing, Inc., through certified mail of the costs associated with fighting the fire. More than 30 days has elapsed with no payment, prompting the liens as set forth in county ordinances.
The Escambia County Commission is set to place a lien against RMC Rapid Management Company and NIT Management, Inc. to recover fire suppression costs in the sum of $267,477.86, with accrued interest.
If approved by the commission, the county attorney will seek to execute the liens in Escambia County Circuit Court.
The Cove Landfill fire prompted several health warnings and kept students indoors at nearby Pine Meadow Elementary School.
Pictured: A January file the Cove Landfill in Ensley. NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
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14 Responses to “Escambia Set To Slap $264K Lien On Cove Landfill For January Fire”
The majority of that cost was likely for the dirt and hauling by the Road Dept.
REGARDING:
“I don’t understand why they are are being charged additional fees if they paid their yearly MSBU Fire fee. Does that mean if my house burns I will be charged for the fire departments manpower hours, fuel, water used etc over and beyond what I pay yearly?”
Most likely because they did not handle the waste in such a manner as to not have such an expensive fire to fight in the first place. Dirt or clay between layers of waste would have killed the fire if it ever started. Methinks that’s standard practice; more knowledgeable people can confirm or deny.
Just think if you prepared a huge bonfire next to the property line with all your neighbors and filled it with materials which would outgas poisonous gases and then let it catch fire with no regard to what it would do to the children in the school next to you, mostly likely they would fine you too.
Just a thought.
David for good neighbors
I don’t understand why they are are being charged additional fees if they paid their yearly MSBU Fire fee. Does that mean if my house burns I will be charged for the fire departments manpower hours, fuel, water used etc over and beyond what I pay yearly?
Do you remember when someone wanted to place an incenterator on this site and burn industrial waste after trucking it from the port…right in the middle of a neighborhood and adjacent to a school.
What are we doing to ourselves?
When the Cove landfill was active before the fire, there was a strong organic odor emanating from the pit…was evident for about the past year…especially at night.
After Ivan, the Cove landfill took a lot of debris, bit it smelled of pine. The recent smell was different.
Do I remember reading that the county was a “customer” of this landfill?
Just glad it’s closed.
I agree with 429SCJ that the county now owns what might end up being a superfund site. Even if it becomes a superfund site, that don’t mean it will be cleaned up faster. I worked with a company doing that type of work and just last year we started, I repeat started, cleaning an old paint company in the northeast that was one of the first sites declared superfund and that was almost 30 years ago.
Oh, but last I heard, ground water doesn’t feed roots, not for oaks or for most plants
1932,
Tell us what the monitoring wells show.
We believe you; so you don’t need to make vague, ominous references.
After all, it is not too late for criminal charges if justified.
David for facts
There is plenty of proof that the Saufley Field Land site has waste other than normal construction waste there. I am a long time trained environmentalist. ” If you can get the FDEP and Escambia County environmentalist to come forward with the results from the monitoring wells in the area. There are things that have happened at this site that you have never heard of. Take a look at the old oak trees that are immediately surrounding the site. They are all dead and falling apart. Do you think this just happenens? They were poisioned by the shollow ground water that feeds the roots. I have passed this site for the past 24 years. The smell some times will choke you. Concrete and fixed building waste does not decay. The odor can only come from something that is organic and in the process of decay. Such as oil, diesel fuel, houshold garbage, pesticides, etc etc. Please don’t be foolish to think only building waste is there. Would you want to allow our children to play on a soccer field knowing there are toxic substances there. Thats what was once proposed by the county staff. ” I know “.
Yep, the owners will walk away.
They most likely did a week after the fire started.
Just like the Saufley Field Landfill, the county, state and feds will do nothing to them.
Period.
And the lien will sit attached to the deed forever.
It can only maybe be collected if they were to ever sell the property.
No sell, none of their money lost.
They can even operate as usual forever without paying the lien.
(Thinks) the county did a great job, Thanks again to the county and its workers. and wear 3 for put on the news and northescambia.com Job well done . Just saying
Charlene, do you have proof that the Saufley field landfill stores anything other than the construction debris that was deposited there from Ivan? Didn’t think so.
This is no different than the crap that went on with the Saufley Field Landfill a few years ago. The owner lived out of state and nothing ever happened to him. The fines mean nothing to someone who has already made their money and moved on and left the mess for the county to clean up. Supposedly the landfill was acquired by the county with plans in the future to build a children’s park, thats right a park where no lights would be needed because your children would glow in the dark.
Slapping a 246K$ lien on this dump will wind up with the county owning a hazmat site that will cost millions to restore.
These companies have most likely liquidated assets and are filing for bankruptcy.
The county should have pursued charges of crimminal negligence and incarcerated the owners, after slapping them with a fine.