New Recycler in Old Location Ordered to Close by City

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 …

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