By: Dusty11980

Dusty11980 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:43:50 +0000

“Listen, this is not a good company,” says Charles Vigliotti, president and chief executive officer of Long Island Compost, with pronounced conviction. “This is a great company. Everybody talks about all the things that we do.”
Okay, so Lets talk about the things your company does, to the residents that are living next to your Yaphank site. First, this is not an active composting site. The town zoned this as a wholesale nursery, bagging plant, and the DEC gave a 15 acre transfer station. So therefore, there shouldn’t be any compost odors emitting off of your site, but they have been for ten years. Your sight is a 63 acres dirt dust bowl. Your company just had a major fire, because of a brush pile that was fifty feet high, and 200x 400 long, it took 20 fire departments, to get this fire under control.
Your company,, has been written up numerous times on inspection sheet violations, always for the same things, odors, migrating dust, and particulates,and flying litter. Your company has been violating the DEC code-Violation NYCRR Part 211.2- which deals with the release of odors and particulates. It Reads that no such person shall cause or allow emissions of air contaiminants to the outdoor atmosphere of such quantity, characteristic or duration which is injurious to human, plant, or animal life, or to property, or which unreasonably interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. I would say that living next to your company, for ten years, with the odors and dust, qualifys as interferring with enjoyment of our propertys and can be injurious to our health.
Suffolk county health department did a two year air monitoring study, and found that your company, which is not an active compost site, was one of the worst offenders, with odors detected almost 80% of the days tested. The clouds of dust and particulates, that migrate off of your site, over the fence, onto our propertys, are four times over the ambient air standard. This has been going on for years, now we find out, that these small particulates of 2.5pm, bioaerosols, and fungus, could cause the residents serious health damage.
If anyone would like to see, just what we have been living with, since this company relocated into our backyards, Go to youtube.com and in the search box, put in Long Island compost. There yo can see, just what a good neighbor, the Long Island compost/ Great gardens has been to the residents. Your company is cutting down on polluting the earth, but at whose expense, our health, our quality of lives?

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Crosswinds Blow at Long Island Compost — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:22:38 +0000

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By: Nikola

Nikola — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:49:27 +0000

My problems with the Yaphank facility are as follows:
1) it is *directly* across the street from the landfill. Compost + dump = unbearable (special thanks to the retarded Republican town council and LaValle who were in charge of approving that zoning decision)
2) They’re apparently getting their materials for free, from the taxpayers. And shipped to them at taxpayer expense. Why don’t we get free compost for our gardens?
3) as pointed out in the article, composting in such volume is not a good idea, unless you’re TRYING to re-create that stretch of NJ/Staten Island highway that some still remember. Why can’t they spread their operations out?
4) I’m willing to buy that the fire was caused by heat and dry conditions, but that doesn’t absolve them — did no one think to run a hose periodically? Or do they LIKE being at the mercy of every stray cigarette flicked on Horseblock?
I am sick of this area being dumped on (literally) by both the town and county governments. Put some of this &*(^$ in East Hampton, why don’t you?

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