Public Hearing Scheduled for Saturday, Jan 16, 2021 at 1PM

WE MUST CONTINUE TO STAND IN OPPOSITION!

WE MUST CONTINUE TO BE HEARD!

PLEASE ATTEND!

Please read the Satilla Riverkeeper’s synopsis of the Citizens Facility Negotiations process. Hundreds if not THOUSANDS of hours worth of research went into this process–all by local citizens only to be dismissed.

https://www.satillariverkeeper.org/brantley-landfill.html

If you cannot attend in person, you can join via Zoom:

To log in to the public meeting on your computer, please click this link or copy and paste it into your browser to join the meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86564204381.

Meeting ID: 865 6420 4381
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To dial in by phone, please call one of the following toll-free numbers:
929 205 6099
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6/24 UPDATE

  • Senate Bill 384 passed out of the Natural Resources And Environment (NR&E) sub-committee with a 5-4 vote.
  • Senate Bill 384 passed out of the Natural Resources And Environment (NR&E) full committee with a 12-6 vote.
  • The Bill is now with the House Rules committee. Please email and call the Georgia House Rules committee and ask for their support of Senate Bill 384.
  • If passed by the Rules committee the bill will proceed to the full Georgia House of Representatives for a vote.

Please call and email both the rules committee and the members of the Georgia House of Representatives for support and a YES vote on SB 384.

Please share this information with family, friends, neighbors, and other Georgians!

Our battle is now in the Georgia House! We need to make our voice heard TODAY! Reach out to our Governor and state representatives!

PLEASE CALL AND EMAIL NOW!!! SUPPORT  SB 384!!

(SB 384 will prohibit the construction of any landfill within 3 miles of a blackwater river.) Start with The Governor and Speaker of the House!

Contact The Office of the Governor

Constituent Services: (404) 656-1776  Speaker of The House David Ralston332 State Capitol, Atlanta, GA 30334(404) 656-5020(706) 632-2221david.ralston@house.ga.gov leishea.johnson@house.ga.gov 

Then please email and call all The House Rules Committee members!

You can use the lists in the section below to send the emails. We’ve made easy to copy lists in the Email Lists section.    In the Subject please put Support SB 384  In the first paragraph please remember your name, address, phone #, and that you support SB 384 and want them to schedule a vote!If your name, address, and phone number are not first they will not count! After this, if you want, you can write a comment.  Please mention that there was an error on the live House Natural Resources meeting and that All Commissioners and constitutional officer’s are in support of SB 384. This letter is in the photos!

Email Lists

(easy to copy, only email addresses)

Email List – GA House Rules Committee

Email List – GA House of Representatives

 Email List – GA House Natural Resources Committee

If you do not have Word, you can use the following plain text email lists:

Email List (Text) – GA House Rules Committee

Email List (Text) – GA House of Representatives

Email List (Text) – GA House Natural Resources Committee

Contact Lists

Full list with names, emails and phone numbers

 GA House of Representatives Rules Committee

GA House of Representatives

GA House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee

Write letters, send emails, sign the petitions and tell your neighbors!

Let’s make our voices heard!

Keep in mind that you are commenting on the draft site limitations for the proposed landfill. The site limitations tell the Brantley County Development Partners where exactly on the site they would be able to dispose of waste.

Landfill Site
In your comment letter:

  1. Make sure that you reference the project: (This information MUST be included on every page! Otherwise the EPD will not consider it.)
    • RE:Draft site Limitations for Brantley County Development Partners, US 82 Solid Waste Handling Facility-South, Brantley County, Proposed Municipal Solid Waste Landfill, APL 01301
  2. Be sure to sign your name WITH your address for each letter.
  3. Be sure to tell the EPD:
    • What qualitities make this a bad site for a landfill
    • If there are additional restrictions to which the company should be held
    • Explain why you think this
  4. Key points to include (Copy these points word-for-word, if you want):
    • The Site Assessment Report submitted by the applicant AND the site limitations drafted by the EPD are NOT consistent with Brantley County’s Solid Waste Management Plans (SWMP). For example:
      • The Brantley County SWMP requires a 1 mile buffer between residences or wells and any waste disposal activities.
      • The SWMP also states that there should be a 100ft undisturbed buffer around all wetlands.
      • SWMP also affords 100ft buffer between the 100-year floodplain of the Satilla River and all its tributaries.
      • SWMP requires a 1 mile buffer between any churches or schools and a solid waste management facility.
      • Alterations on this site could significantly change the hydrology of the watershed so that neighboring and downstream properties are more prone to flooding.
  5. Additional reasons of opposition:

    • Proximity to Waynesville Primary and Atkinson Elementary Schools.
    • Both schools and all surrounding residences have swallow wells for drinking water.
    • Proximity to the Satilla River: the land for the landfill site is low wetlands that feed back into the Satilla River.
    • The application is very broad and non-specific, leaving it open to many types of waste. On the North side of the property they want an Incinerator as well as a rail washing system.
    • The current board of commissioners are NOT for this, they are on record as opposing! The Development Partners have filed suit against Brantley County.
    • This will not have any impact on trash pick-up in the county. THESE ARE SEPARATE ISSUES!
Send these letters and emails to:

Hon. Richard E. Dunn

Director EPD Ga. Dept. of Natural Resources

2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SE Suite 1456

Atlanta, Ga 30334-9000

c/o Director of Legal Services Laura Williams, ESQ.

(Email: laura.williams@dnr.ga.gov)

Mr. Chuck Mueller

Branch Chief Land Protection Branch EPD

Ga Dept of Natural Resources

2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SE Suite 1456

Atlanta, Ga 30334-9000

(Email: chuck.mueller@dnr.ga.gov)

Mr. William Cook

Program Manager EPD

4244 International Parkway, Suite 104

Atlanta, Ga 30354

Attn: William Cook

Mr. John Sayer

(Email: john.sayer@dnr.ga.gov)

If you have any additional questions about how to write a comment, contact Laura Early, Satilla River Keeper.

Email: riverkeeper@satillariverkeeper.org

Phone: 912.462.5094

If you would like to contact your state and federal representatives, you can find their contact information here.