Letter to the Editor
To the Editor:
I would like to register strong objection to the “Flow Control” proposition currently under consideration by the county commissioners. Mandating our Holmes County businesses to use the services of a particular [and “exclusive”] waste collection and disposal service would eliminate elective pricing options and would increase corporate costs for waste disposal. In the precarious business environment of today, the absolute last thing we need for the business community is another “extra cost” burden and the loss of freedom to administrate our escalating operating expenses.
In addition to my disagreement with the “forced, noncompetitive” single-source disposal plan (a “recipe” for increased costs and non-incentivized lack of service responsiveness), I wish to give expression to my considered reservations concerning the possible environmental hazards and offensive odors, the weaving narrow roads clogged with trucks bringing “outside” waste from the distant Interstate, increased maintenance expenses for our county’s roads, the increased dangers to the horse and buggy traffic, and the corruption of our bucolic heritage and its inherent attractiveness for residents and tourists alike. The combination of these factors could be devastating to our local business climate which is a more consistent, long-term and effective “driver” for bringing in revenue than the contractual proposals of a prospective “land-fill.”
I would like to suggest, in addition, that our county government would consider its intrinsic accountability and responsibility for “preservation” which must not be ignored. In the end, the hard-working people and businesses of Holmes County deserve more than being the site of a “money-generating” landfill.
The solution for this problem is really close at hand. Next door in Tuscarawas County we have one landfill (Kimble Landfill) and in Harrison County we have Cardinal Waste Services. Both of these are already meeting our needs in a very price-competitive way. Kimble’s landfill, for example, is already “double-lined” and is able to service our landfill needs, according to their testimony, for the next 70 years. We don’t need to sully our environment with trucks bringing waste into Holmes County. Let’s keep our county beautiful and a place concerning which we can be proud!
Ivan Schrock
Walnut Creek
I would like to register strong objection to the “Flow Control” proposition currently under consideration by the county commissioners. Mandating our Holmes County businesses to use the services of a particular [and “exclusive”] waste collection and disposal service would eliminate elective pricing options and would increase corporate costs for waste disposal. In the precarious business environment of today, the absolute last thing we need for the business community is another “extra cost” burden and the loss of freedom to administrate our escalating operating expenses.
In addition to my disagreement with the “forced, noncompetitive” single-source disposal plan (a “recipe” for increased costs and non-incentivized lack of service responsiveness), I wish to give expression to my considered reservations concerning the possible environmental hazards and offensive odors, the weaving narrow roads clogged with trucks bringing “outside” waste from the distant Interstate, increased maintenance expenses for our county’s roads, the increased dangers to the horse and buggy traffic, and the corruption of our bucolic heritage and its inherent attractiveness for residents and tourists alike. The combination of these factors could be devastating to our local business climate which is a more consistent, long-term and effective “driver” for bringing in revenue than the contractual proposals of a prospective “land-fill.”
I would like to suggest, in addition, that our county government would consider its intrinsic accountability and responsibility for “preservation” which must not be ignored. In the end, the hard-working people and businesses of Holmes County deserve more than being the site of a “money-generating” landfill.
The solution for this problem is really close at hand. Next door in Tuscarawas County we have one landfill (Kimble Landfill) and in Harrison County we have Cardinal Waste Services. Both of these are already meeting our needs in a very price-competitive way. Kimble’s landfill, for example, is already “double-lined” and is able to service our landfill needs, according to their testimony, for the next 70 years. We don’t need to sully our environment with trucks bringing waste into Holmes County. Let’s keep our county beautiful and a place concerning which we can be proud!
Ivan Schrock
Walnut Creek
Published: July 5, 2011
