Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 10th, 2007
FOR the second time in less than a week, garbage trucks were on Thursday forced to wait in a long line at the Riverton City Waste Disposal facility in Kingston before they were able to dispose of waste collected mainly from the Corporate Area.
This time, as was the case earlier this week, the problem was associated with faulty equipment on the landfill.
The Observer was on the scene investigating rumours of a fire at the dump when a worker reported to landfill supervisor Cleveland Francis, that one of the tracks of the single working tractor on the site had broken and needed to be welded back on.
“Di track break off so mi a go weld it on back now. Mi tell dem sey fi send dem up two by two,” he said, addressing Francis.
“It will be down for at least an hour,” Francis later told the Observer.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Four dumptrucks, including two owned by the municipality of Consolacion, were apprehended by the provincial police and monitoring team of the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (Penro) on Tuesday for hauling filling materials without permits.
The Penro said the limestone materials loaded in the dumptrucks were sourced from the “waste resulting from the road opening project of the municipality.”
Based on the Penro-Capitol records, no waste disposal permit had been issued to any private person or government entity for the hauling activity in the area.
Two 10-wheeler trucks were owned by Chona Sy and Virgilio Olivares of Consolacion.
Provincial Board Member Victor Maambong, chairman of the committee on environment, said he would investigate the incident next week.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
More timely garbage collection is expected next year when the Department of Environmental Health brings on stream 10 new dump trucks with a combined $2 million price tag.
According to the department’s acting director, Winston Sweeting, the trucks’ arrival will enhance the garbage collection system in New Providence.
It comes in the wake of the government’s decision to put a hold on a plan that called for outside companies to assist the department with garbage collection.
Once the new trucks arrive the entire garbage collection systems is expected to be revamped, according to Mr. Sweeting.
The 10 to 12 trucks that are currently being utilized reportedly cost the department $250,000 each.
Mr. Sweeting advised members of the public not to place items such as car tyres or batteries in the garbage as they tend to damage the trucks, causing the department to fall behind in its work.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
FOUR dump trucks, two owned by the Municipality of Consolacion, have been confiscated by the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (Penro) for alleged illegal hauling of limestone.
The Penro monitoring team and the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) conducted a checkpoint last Tuesday in Conso-lacion.
The four trucks were flagged down at Danglag, Consolacion and were seized after the driver failed to present delivery receipts for the hauling activity, which is a violation of the Province’s quarrying ordinance.
Glenn Baricuatro, Capitol consultant on environment, said that either for commercial or government project, extraction of minerals like limestone has to have the necessary permits and the hauling must be covered by delivery receipts.
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
A crash involving a five-tonne truck and a minivan on Highway 400 claimed the life of a motorist on Wednesday afternoon.
The collision occurred in the southbound lanes, south of Highway 89, shortly after 1 p.m.
The truck had been parked on the shoulder when a minivan lost control and slammed into its rear, Ontario Provincial Police said.
The driver of the van, a man believed to be in his 50s, was killed in the crash.
The truck driver didn’t suffer serious injuries, but was hospitalized after suffering from shock, police said.
Vehicles were rerouted around the accident.
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
A collision between a UPS delivery truck and a Volkswagen caused the closure of Banfield Road Tuesday afternoon.
Shortly after 4 p.m., police were called to the area about a mile off Peverly HIll Road, where the Volkswagen left the road and came to a stop nose-down in a ditch. The car’s air bags deployed and extensive front-end damage was visible as it was towed from the scene at close to 5 p.m..
Spider web cracks in the UPS truck windshield indicated the driver may have impacted the window, while the truck also showed signs of front-end and axle damage. An 18-wheeler tow truck was needed to haul it from the scene.
Officer Scott Pearl, who assisted at the crash site, said no one was injured.
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
A 34-year-old truck driver from the Los Angeles area was killed near Chiriaco Summit when his truck rear-ended another big rig on Interstate 10 east of Indio.
According to California Highway Patrol reports, at about 3:16 a.m., the male driver, described as a Hispanic man from Los Angeles whose name is being withheld pending notification of kin, was driving at about 74 mph in the No. 2 lane and approached a 1999 Kenworth also traveling in that lane near the Cactus City rest area.
The Kenworth was driven by Arturo Villa, 49, of Tucson, Ariz., and was traveling at a lower speed. For reasons still under investigation, according to the California Highway Patrol, the Freightliner rear-ended the Kenworth.
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Three people died in traffic accidents over the weekend, including a married couple whose vehicle swerved out of control on a snowy freeway in Sterling Heights during a late autumn storm.
Falling snow Saturday evening turned to heavy rain Sunday as temperatures climbed to the 48-degree mark and caused travel difficulties for motorists.
Temperatures today are expected to plunge with wind-chill factors making it frigid outside.
A Utica man and his wife died Saturday night when their 2006 Ford truck crashed on M-53 south of M-59 (Hall Road), according to a news release from Sterling Heights police.
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Cross Creek Road off of Jefferson County Road 26 is closed as crews work to clean up after a dump truck overturns and loses its load.
Crews say the accident happened just before 9 a.m. today. Officials expected to have it cleared.
The driver was hauling demolition waste to the C & D Disposal site. Crews say the side of the road gives way there and the driver may have been over too far. He wasn’t hurt.
Traffic is being re-routed during cleanup to county Road 33.
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
The driver of a glass truck was killed Tuesday afternoon when his vehicle struck an ice truck head-on near a south suburban intersection.
The fatal crash preceded a separate crash about 1 ½ miles away where a pedestrian was struck by a turning vehicle.
The two vehicles, a glass truck and a Lang ice truck, were traveling in opposite directions on Southwest Highway near 55th Court when they collided Tuesday, Oak Lawn Police Chief Bill Villanova said.
The glass truck driver was killed as shards of glass showered the streets, the chief said. The ice truck driver was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was being treated for a broken arm, according to a Lang representative.
Anthony Carrano, 29, of Lockport, died in the crash, according to a spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead at the Stein Institute.
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