Decatur Township residents poised to fight landfill expansion
Helen Richhart’s Decatur Township home rattles on an almost-weekly basis, the result of blasts from nearby mines that have left cracks in her walls and ceiling.
Occasionally, she hears the noise of airplanes from neighboring Indianapolis International Airport. And during heavy rains, she worries, because her home lies in a flood plain.
Now, Richhart fears, there could be another burden added to the landscape: an existing landfill creeping closer to her one-story limestone home.
Gee, ma’am, can I ask you a potentially-stupid question?
WTF are you doing living there?
The city has a choice: Bury it or burn it. Nobody likes the consequences of burning in the city’s gazillion-dollar mass boondoggle burner, so gee whiz, I guess we have to bury it.
The whole southwest corner of the city is one of the biggest industrial wastelands in the county. Again, WTF are you doing living there?
If it’s that bad, sell your house, take a loss if you have to, and move elsewhere. And don’t ask the city (aka the taxpayers) to compensate you — that’s up to the people who own South Side Landfill.