Stop the Tolson (Cunningham) Landfill

The MDE has been hounded with requests for an extension on the comment period regarding the Tolson Landfill. Finally they agreed. They announced today that they are extending the public comment period for the Tolson & Asssociates Landfill permit to Wednesday, November 9th, 2011.

This means YOU can send your letters now, help get more letters sent in by your neighbors, friends, and family.

PLEASE do not wait until November to get your letter in to the MDE opposing this landfill….SEND YOUR LETTER IN TODAY!

What YOU can do right now to STOP this Landfill:

Write a letter to the Director of Land Management at Maryland Department of Administration before the comment periods ends on Friday, September 30th.

Mr. Horacio Tablada, Director, Land Management Administration
1800 Washington Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21230-1719

Sample letters are available here for you to send. Send all three or more, however many you like. Also you can send one from each adult family member in the household, it does not matter if you are a renter or a homeowner.

Important: Letter must have your mailing address on it. Reason: MDE has to by law reply with a written letter in the mail to each and every person that submits a letter to them during the comment period.

For Sample Letters to use: Oppose the Permit

The proposed Tolson & Associates (Cunningham) Rubble Landfill would be located near large residential developments.  The entrance to the site would be at the end of Capitol Raceway Road  in Crofton, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. This proposed 72-acre landfill would located on the current 184-acre Cunningham Sand and Gravel site, which includes the closed Cunningham Rubble Landfill — a landfill with a history of serious environmental violations with discharges that are currently being monitored by MDE.

The site is bounded to the north by the Piney Orchard community and the County’s Gambrills-Odenton Recreation Council (GORC)/Francis Station Park, to the east by Four Seasons community, to the south by homes on Evergreen Road, and to the west by the Little Patuxent River.

The Cunningham Excavating Company which previously operated a rubble landfill on the land had a record of significant environment violations and their application to expand that existing landfill was denied by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) in 2000.   Principals of Cunningham Excavating still have ownership interests in the land.  Tolson & Associates is essentially a shell corporation with no experience managing solid waste facilities and is closely tied to Cunningham and members of his family.

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