JUNE 26, 2019 • WWW.THEOBSERVER.COM • VOL. CXXXII, NO. 7
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As is the annual tradition, Kearny High School seniors made their way up and down Kearny Avenue on Friday, June 21, following dismissal on their last day of classes. This group of students includes at least one bound for Rutgers in the fall.
Monday morning madness: Trucks were legally allowed to dump, but only Santos knew By Kevin Canessa kc@theobserver.com
Ginsburg sent The Observer a view that clearly showed trucks entering and exiting the Keegan Landfill at 7:40 a.m. No one was at the gate to stop the trucks, which went right into the dump. Numerous were seen dumping at the top of the mound. The Observer was on-site and a journalist was able to walk right into the dump. Trucks kept coming and going. And apparently, it was all legal. The
The phone calls and emails started flowing in at a little past 7:40 a.m., Monday, June 24. The most forceful came from Adam Ginsburg, a Kearny resident who has been in the forefront over the fight to close the Keegan Landfill. He wasn’t pleased by what he saw.
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only problem was — no one knew that. According to several sources, Mayor Alberto G. Santos was informed the trucks would be dumping the soil as part of a remediation process/placing of a gas-collection system on Friday, June 21. However, he did not inform residents until hours after the trucks began dumping the soil. It appears not even Santos’s council colleagues were made aware of the
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permitted dumping. The Observer certainly was unaware. So for several hours on Monday, there was widescale anger that these trucks were dumping there. The Observer’s Kevin Canessa placed a phone call to Santos’s mobile number at 8:23 a.m. to ask the mayor if he was aware the trucks were on site.
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