Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The RI Department of Environmental Management reportedly will agree this week on a contact with the former owner to clean up the site in East Providence, which is in receivership.
A contract to clean up the closed TLA Pond View recycling facility in East Providence, which is in receivership, is expected to be signed this week -- with the former owner of the company that was shut down six months ago. Bruce Gladstone, the attorney for the owner of the property, Ken Foley, said in a Providence Journal story that Foley is working out the details with the RI Department of Environmental Resources to finally clean up the site at the end of Dexter Road near Omega Pond in Rumford. The contract calls for a 60-day cleanup with a two-week preparation period, East Providence city solicitor Timothy Chapman said in the newspaper story. Foley’s involvement in the cleanup is not without its critics, including Chapman. The solicitor …
Monday, February 25, 2013
Pond View Metals apparently opened this month on the former TLA Pond View property in East Providence where a clean-up of the embattled site still has not begun.
East Providence has issued a cease-and-desist order to a new metal recycling company that opened recently at the Rumford property where TLA Pond View – a construction and demolition waste recycler – was shut down by a receiver. Kenneth Foley, the owner of the Dexter Road property, opened Pond View Metals about five months after TLA Pond View was shut down. The new business opened there even though a clean-up being overseen by the RI Department of Environmental Management hasn’t even begun yet, according to the Providence Journal. Large piles of debris remain on the site. Edward Pimentel, an East Providence zoning official, issued the order, according to the East Providence Post. It reads: “Be advised that this office has confirmed that …
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The East Providence senator says he has sent a letter to Gov. Chafee and DEM Director Janet Coit to detail actions being taken.
The cleanup of the former TLA Pond View demolition dumping site in Rumford continues to lag, and illegal dumping continues, according to East Providence Sen. Daniel Da Ponte. He wants the dumping to stop and the cleanup to begin, Da Ponte said in a press release sent out Tuesday, Jan. 15. He said he has sent a letter dated Jan. 15 to Gov. Chafee and Janet Coit, director of the RI Department of Environmental Management, asking that a "response detailing the actions the State and D.E.M. plans to take to ensure that expeditious site cleanup commences immediately and that continued illegal dumping at the TLA Pond View facility is forcibly forbidden." Da Ponte said his letter to Chafee and Coit "was prompted by the numerous correspondences and …
Tony
7:11 am on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Good for Mr. Foley! How is the zoing officer, Mr. Ed Pimental, feeling about this. He tries to close Mr. Foley's business every week. I guess DEM just showed him who is boss. Welcome to East Providence! more ›