A sign on State Route 32 (Flatbush Road) in the town of Ulster, NY, indicates the offices of the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency.
Residents reading this letter to the editor should focus on the County Resource Recovery Agency’s recent findings, announced in the June 28 Daily Freeman, in which two sites in Warwarsing on small country roads were identified as locations for a new county landfill.
I’m just asking: Which roads will these trucks take? Route 209 through Marbletown, Stone Ridge, Rochester and Warwarsing? And will the trucks coming from the eastern Ulster towns on Route 9 thunder through New Paltz, Gardiner and the Mohonk and Minnewaska Conservation Areas on Routes 44/55 and 299?
Much of Route 209 is a scenic route from Hurley through Warwarsing and including Warwarsing, and the views are great. Same goes for 44/55, Route 299, and along the roads in Mohonk and Minnewaska parks. Those trucks will be zipping along at 50-55 mph, and the congestion/obstruction will be tremendous.
Find another solution. The current site was placed where it is because it is closer to the “producers” of the material in Kingston and the city of Ulster and does not require traveling from one end of the county to the other along more inaccessible and narrow roads.
Reject the recommendation to use an inaccessible site at the southern end of Ulster County for access to a new county landfill.
— Rick Jones
City of Rochester
