JOIN US AND HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
UNASE A NOSTROS Y HAGA ESCUCHAR SU VOZ!
*We demand Commissioner Emily Lloyd of DEP and Mayor Michael Bloomberg
enforce higher standards to eliminate the smell and pollution
from the New York Organic Fertilizer Company (NYOFCO)
and the Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant!
Also, build the giant egg-shaped waste processors
on the Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant,
not near Barretto Point Park in Hunts Point!
*We demand Mayor Bloomberg use our tax money to build a multi-purpose Community Center that has educational, vocational and arts programs that benefit the South Bronx Community
NOT ANOTHER JAIL!
*Demandamos que la Comisionada Emily Lloyd y el Alcalde Michael Bloomberg
impongan las reglas mas altas para eliminar el olor y la contaminaciÓn
causada por “New York Organic Fertilizer Company”
y el “Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant”.
Queremos tambien que se construya una maquina digestiria
en forma de huevo gigantesco en “Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant”,
no cerca de parque Barretto Point en Hunts Point!
*Demandamos que Alcalde Bloomberg utilize nuestro dinero de impuestos para construir un centro multi-utilizado que contenga programas educativos, vocacionales y de artes en benefico a la comunidad de sur de Bronx,
¡NO OTRA CARCEL!
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call 311 and let them know it stinks in Hunt's Point!
The Department of Environmental Protection has been logging complaints about the smell in Hunt's Point since 1999, and claims only 83 calls have been received. (!!!) MOM's EJ committee is organizing a call log to note when complaints are made and how the city responds. If you call 311, please ask for a tracking number of your call, and let Thomas know the time, date & tracking number of your call.
thomas (at) mothersonthemove.org 718-842-2224 x 17
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MOM protester disguised as David Rubenstein, president of the Carlyle Group who owns Synergo Technologies & NYOFCO, holds Mayor Bloomberg (also represented by a MOM member) on a leash. |
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this coverage from the Bronx news |
South Bronx Residents Left Out of
Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC Mourn Loss of Clean Air:
South Bronx residents in toxic environment due to negligent Department of Environmental Protection; so MOM members organize a mock funeral and vigil.
Bronx, New York - Mothers on the Move (MOM) members and South Bronx Residents sick from years of breathing the nauseating smell of sewage treatment plants that DEP regulates and operates in Hunts Point gathered Tuesday for a mock funeral and candlelight vigil in front of the New York Organic Fertilizer Company (NYOFCO) to mourn the loss of clean air.
“The stench from these sewage treatment plants gives me a headache, I become noxious and have to leave the area before I feel relief” explained MOM member Lucinda Ortiz. “That said, I’d like to speak about Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC… What about the South Bronx? What about our quality of air and quality of life?”
Residents in Hunts Point and Longwood have complained for years about the sickening odors from the New York Organic Fertilizer Company (NYOFCO) and the Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant in the South Bronx. “Our children suffer from asthma…we can’t invite our friends to the South Bronx” said MOM member Barbara White.
With face masks, mock asthma pumps, some in mock biohazard suits and a black casket, MOM members sang “We Shall Not Be Moved,” and “This Little Light of Mine” and demanded that Mayor Bloomberg and DEP Commissioner Lloyd enforce higher standards to get rid of the odors from the sewage plants.
MOM members also rejected the DEP's plan to build 2-4 13 story high waste processors (also known as 'egg-shaped digesters') right next to Barretto Point Park. Instead, they propose that they be constructed within the property site of the current waste facility.
Mothers on the Move is a member-led organization of "real people making real changes." For over fifteen years, MOM has organized South Bronx residents to build a society rooted in the values of equity, democracy, justice and community. MOM invites all concerned South Bronx residents to join the campaign in fighting for Environmental Justice.
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March 25, 2008, 4:36 pm
By Tina Kelley
The coffin held the South Bronx. The mourners wore asthma inhalers and face masks. And the litany of complaints regarding the New York Organic Fertilizer Company was all too familiar: “the smell was unholy, the demands righteous.”
Neighbors of the New York Organic Fertilizer Company, on Oak Point Avenue in the Hunts Point section, held a candlelight vigil in front of the plant this afternoon. Sludge from the city sewer system is burned there and made into fertilizer pellets.
“The South Bronx is dying from the odor,” said Wilfredo Febre, a member of the environmental justice committee of Mothers on the Move.
The group’s demands, addressed to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Emily Lloyd, head of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, included imposing higher standards on the company and the Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant, and reducing odors in the neighborhood.
“South Bronx residents are basically sick of the years of breathing that nauseating smell of the sewage,” said Mr. Febre, who lives a half-mile from the company and has to close the windows if the wind is from the south or southwest.
Michael Saucier, a spokesman for Environmental Protection, said a multiagency effort is under way “to investigate a broad range of odor sources in the Hunts Point area.”
A call to Synagro Technologies, a Houston-based company of which the company is a subsidiary, was not immediately returned.
The fertilizer plant, which opened in 1992, has on occasion been viewed as a good neighbor. But in recent years it has been cited for air-pollution violations and even the subject of a shareholder resolution brought before Synagro.
The environmental protection agency in New York said it was committed to keeping the discussion going, and to find out the problem’s real sources.
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MOM's People's Assembly Surprise Visit to Department of Enviromental Protection Commisioner (DEP)
Emily Lloyd's Brooklyn home
after she TURNED DOWN TWO INVITATIONS TO HEAR THE COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS:
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South Bronx Residents Demand City of New York Improve Air Quality and Say No To a New Jail!
MOM Members and South Bronx Residents Call for a Stop to Noxious Odors in Light of PlaNYC and Demand a Community Center Instead of Jail
New York, NY – Mothers on the Move (MOM) members and South Bronx residents gathered on the steps of New York City Hall for a press conference to demand an end to pollution and voiced their opposition to a proposal for a new jail in their neighborhood. Members of the Environmental Justice Committee of MOM highlighted their concerns about the nauseating odors emanating from the New York Organic Fertilizer Company (NYOFCO) and the Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant in Hunts Point in light of Mayor Bloomberg’s “Greater, Greener New York” PlaNYC.
South Bronx Residents in Hunts Point and Longwood have complained for years about the sickening odors from the waste plants. “There are times that my house smells like an outhouse. If you smell stench then you know its not good for you” explained MOM member Wilfredo Febre.
MOM members rejected the Dep’t of Environmental Protection’s plan to build 2-4 additional waste processors (also known as ‘egg-shaped digesters’) right next to Barretto Point Park. “I think I now know why they made that new park” stated MOM member Cerita Parker, referring to Barretto Point Park. “They gave us that park to make the eggs appear less ugly than they would be!” Instead, they propose that they be constructed within the property site of the current waste facility.
Laying out their demands during the Press Conference, the Environmental Justice Committee at MOM called for Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Lloyd of the DEP to enforce higher standards to eliminate the noxious odors and pollutants from both sewage treatment plants.
In addition, MOM members articulated their opposition to the construction of the jail at Oak Point in Hunts Point, instead demanding that the $375 million be used for a community center to benefit the residents of the South Bronx. “If crime has declined, why does the city-anywhere in the city-need another prison? And why always in the South Bronx?” asked MOM member Tanya Fields.
Mothers on the Move is a member-led organization of “real people making real changes.” For over fifteen years, MOM has organized South Bronx residents to build a society rooted in the values of equity, democracy, justice and community. MOM invites all concerned South Bronx residents to join the campaign in fighting for Environmental Justice.
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