Posted on 08/19/2008 6:18:37 AM PDT by rawhide
Walt Neidlinger spent years trying to keep a Wal-Mart-anchored shopping complex from being built near his Wind Gap home.
The traffic would have been suffocating for their little community, neighbors argued, so when the massive retailer and its partners packed up their plans and left Plainfield Township last year, Neidlinger was ecstatic. He figured he'd wait for the next plan to come along and remembers thinking, ''What could be worse than Wal-Mart?''
Over the past year, Neidlinger says, he's gotten an answer: RPM Recycling -- the metal-shredding plant on the same land -- causes daily noise that sounds like a freight train rumbling down the street, and frequent explosions that shake his walls.
Last week, a fire at the recycling plant inflamed growing tensions between residents, who say the plant has ruined their neighborhood, and RPM co-owner Nolan A. Perin, who says he's spent $200,000 to help calm the noise and wonders why he's being criticized for bringing industry to an industrial park.
Neidlinger said the shredding operation is a payback for opposition to the Wal-Mart project.
''The noise is a constant nuisance and the explosions make our windows shake,'' Neidlinger said. ''I just feel Mr. Perin put this there out of spite after the shopping center development fell through.''
Perin, who owns the 200 acres near the Wind Gap border, denies that.
''That's about as childish a thought as a person can have,'' Perin said. ''We proposed that recycling plant long before the [Wal-Mart] retail development fell through. I want to be a good neighbor, but I wish people would bring their complaints to me, rather than the media.''
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
wal-mart, dollar-for-dollar available to it,
compared to the u.s. government,
has done more for po’ folks and the working class
than all the fdr and lbj great society programs ever did.
wal-mart has single-handedly changed marketing and distribution. for example, they observed that the silk-screened cardboard boxes on anti-deodorants were unnecessary and added to transportation.
they asked manufacturers to eliminate them. they did, for all stores. this saved wal-mart $10 m per year and they passed 1/2 of the savings on to consumers.
I been near those plants they are very noisy.
Be careful what you wish for Wal*Mart ping.
Hmmmm...interesting. We used to say “...purple panther p!$$”.
I really like Walmart for a lot of things. In our area I haven’t seen any siphoning from smaller retailers, at least none that wasn’t deserved.
It's in the article.
Read the comment section at the artcle. There are some funny comments.
Or checking the zoning in neighborhood before they moved in.
If you buy a house next to a state park, you figger it’ll stay that way. You buy a house next to a greenfield site zoned industrial, you’re taking your chances.
The Greenie Weenies don’t want it “in their back yard” whether it is a recycling plant or a wind farm.
typical.
They are also for establishing a “Red Light District” (whether it be with revenue generating cameras or STD generating sex workers). Again they don’t want it in THEIR neighborhood, they want that too put somewhere else in town.
WalMartNeverHeldAnyoneAtGunpoint ping....
LOL!!
Don’t you love it when liberals and other morons get what they think they want?
The explosions, Perin acknowledged, probably happen when propane or oxygen tanks that are stashed in vehicles sold to RPM as scrap get shredded.
Perin said he recently paid $200,000 for a machine to pry open locked hoods and trunks so that his workers can better inspect the cars. Although there were as many as eight explosions in a month, Perin said there have been none since July 8.
colloquialisms will always get you, i mean me, in trouble!
thanks for noticing.
(sigh)--gee whiz--I think I could do it cheaper than that---
I used to work at a plastics recycler. They had a plant in the middle of 400 acres, both for the noise control and in case of fires. This is INDUSTRY, that is why industrial is usually zoned away from residential and commercial - because of noise and byproducts.
I wonder if we need to ship all the liberal nuts to a new reservation just for them in the middle of of Alaska or the Dakotas, say “Here, life off the land in a carbon neutral way”, while the rest of us rebuild the country.
It’s funny how the anti Wal-Mart crowd says that nobody in their community wants the store. If nobody wanted the store, why not let Wal-Mart build it and lose money (since nobody will shop there)? And if nobody wants it, where is all the traffic going to come from? The real truth is that these people don’t want others to have the choice of shopping at a Wal-Mart because they know they are in the minority. They “speak” for others as a way of suppressing their view.
Sorry, I was wrong earlier, this is in Wind Gap, PA.
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