It's hard to believe that the homeowners have waited this long to file suit, but I suspect that the length of time involved will actually work in their favor. Bill Penny is off his rocker, thinking that the lawsuit is specious, after "2-1/2 yrs of all the effort and work that's gone into this." What a load of crap. It's precisely BECAUSE of 2-1/2 yrs of "effort and work" and no resolution in sight yet and continued exposure to toxins and endangerment of health and well-being in addition to damaged property values that this lawsuit has more merit every day. This mess should have been cleaned up a long, long time ago. I say, balls to the wall and pedal to the metal on this one, homeowners!!!!
Justice for those who deserves it !
Some night, around midnight or one o’clock in the morning, when the breeze is in the proper direction, go and walk around the parking lots at The Factory. Smell and inhale the pungent aroma of the toxic fumes in the air at Franklin Road and Liberty Pike.
The air actually burns the lining of your respiratory system from the nose all the way into the lungs. If you are completely sober and without any pain killers in your system, you will not linger very long in the outside air.
This is truly a shame that homeowners in the area have to enter litigation, when the local government of the city and/or county should have taken strong action a long time ago. This is nothing that just came on the scene, it has been around a long time.
Tourists? What tourists would want to smell Franklin’s Fumes?
Anon. @ 3:02 unpublished,
I do agree with the mission, but there was a time where the HRWA got a little too political-ly ... and stuff.
It turned me off.
Where has the loud and long voice been on the EL cleanup?
Ken Moore lives a few football passes (or one goalie kick) away from the place - where's his voice been?
I just remember back to that phony visit Klatt, Schroer, and Moore pulled for the press.
Agreed KA !
The hrwa site doesnt look like its been updated since september of last year. I passed by their building and it looks like its for rent.
Anybody know what going on with them?
These folks have gotten genuinely shafted. The city should never have allowed a poison plant next to a residential neighborhood -- or next to a city park. (This was many administrations ago.) And the city should not allow the destruction/development of Roper's Knob -- on Tuesday's BOMA agenda.
Robert theres another smell that comes from factory over on southeast parkway. When the wind literally blows it covers the area in some awful funk than in no way can be good for you.
Hey Kool,
I am not a member of the HRWA. But I have done volunteer work for them in the past. Several years ago I was checking dissolved oxygen levels in the Harpeth River for the HRWA. One of the locations that I checked was under the Rt. 31 Bridge just downstream from where Liberty Creek empties into the Harpeth.
This was before the pollution source was traced back to Egyptian Lacquer. I got some really crazy readings. The HRWA took the readings seriously and traced them back to Liberty Creek. They then went up Liberty Creek and began the hunt that ended at Egyptian Lacquer.
No one worked any harder on, or is any more responsible for, reaching a solution to the pollution of Liberty Creek than the HRWA. I know. I was there.
And, by the way, this was the beginning of the end of my relationship with the Miller/Johnson administration. I became persona non grata at City Hall for questioning the lack of interest in this environmental problem by the City.
Jim,
I know the residents in that area appreciate your help and the help of the HRWA.
Understood - city hall administration problems and the good ol' boy arrangements they pursue first.
Also, the City is foolish not to use citizens willing to volunteer their expertise in areas where they are having problems - you think people like Stuckey or others know anything besides the business of being in business?
In this city, it has to put out there 24/7, or it gets covered up, much like the pump and haul racketeering.
The Williamson A.M. has done a very poor job of continuing coverage on this issue - I suspect very directed reasons for this.
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