Letter: Setting the document straight in DTG protection | Opinion

To the editor — I wish to thank the Yakima Herald-Republic for his or her current protection of issues related to the DTG landfill, however I wish to right the document about one thing in Luke Thompson’s article on Sept. 11. He acknowledged that in fall of 2021 I reported “greater than 55 pickers and others skilled complications and nausea from fumes.” Whereas round 55 folks smelled the odor and did not prefer it, solely three pickers skilled complications and nausea so intensely they needed to cease working. Hopefully now, this error gained’t get repeated.

In December 2021, DTG paid Freestone Environmental Companies to conduct a examine of landfill gases which discovered benzene and propene concentrations at one location that have been 40-50 occasions greater than the EPA’s default concentrations for municipal stable waste. Concentrations for a restricted goal landfill like DTG’s ought to be even decrease.

Clearly, these poisonous air pollution are regarding to me, and I’m anticipating the state and native regulators to work with DTG to find out the supply of those odors and stop such gases from being an issue sooner or later.

PAUL HERKE

Yakima